Mike Fellows (politician)
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Michael Charles Fellows December 8, 1957 Lewiston, Idaho |
| Died |
September 19, 2016 (aged 58) Missoula County, Montana |
| Cause of death | Car Crash |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Libertarian |
| Occupation | Activist, politician |
Michael Charles "'Mike" Fellows (December 8, 1957 – September 19, 2016) was a politician and former Army reservist. He was also a state coordinator for the Montana Fully Informed Jury Association. In the 1990s he issued a press release calling for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
Fellows died at the age of 58 in a car crash near Potomac in Missoula County, Montana on September 19, 2016, following a campaign event in Seeley Lake.
Fellows was the state chair of the Montana Libertarian Party. In 1998 he was in the race for Montana's lone U.S. house seat with Democrat Robert "Dusty" Deschamps, Reform Party candidate Webb Sullivan and Republican freshman Rick Hill with Hill ending up the winner. In 2006 he was in the race, running against Republican Denny Rehberg and Democrat Monica Lindeen.
In 2012, he became the first Libertarian Party candidate in the party's history to achieve 40 percent in a partisan statewide race. The race was for clerk of the Montana Supreme Court against incumbent Democrat Ed Smith, who won.
In November 2014 he was in the race for Montana’s U.S. House seat. He ran against Democrat John Lewis and Republican Ryan Zinke. The three reasons he gave for running were to try to protect Second Amendment gun rights, balance the federal budget and reduction of the federal debt. He pulled 10,654 votes but Republican Zinke won.
In 2010, Fellows advocated for the repeal of the 2001 Patriot Act, which was passed by the government in the wake of 9/11. He was critical of the law for violating constitutional provisions, pointing out unreasonable searches and seizures.
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