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Records: Montana governor feared backlash over mask mandate

by Associated Press/Report for America
| July 17, 2020 2:27 PM

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock's statewide mask mandate came after hundreds of Montana residents, business owners and health care leaders demanded the move as virus cases mounted in the state, records obtained by The Associated Press reveal.

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