He collapsed a day later from stroke-like conditions and later dropped out of the governor's race for health reasons. Racicot called a clunker of a special session in late November and December of 1993 to fix property taxes, among other things. They gathered for 21 sweltering days in the non-air conditioned Capitol in the summer of 1989 when Stephens directed them to craft a new, but highly debated, school funding system after the Montana Supreme Court ruled the previous method unconstitutional. And Schwinden called a 14-day summer session in 1986 where lawmakers made tough budgetary decisions to balance the state's books. The 2000 special session begins Monday with a consensus that lawmakers must pass a new method to fund economic-development programs after an earlier way was nixed by the Supreme Court.
Democrats are lined up apparently in unison against the tax cuts.