HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Newly released documents show the National Right to Work Committee worked directly with select Republican legislative candidates in five states in 2010 to boost their campaigns with a voter mailing program.
Officials in Montana say that amounted to illegal contributions by a corporation and are pursuing litigation against nine state candidates who participated.
Montana's commissioner of political practice released thousands of emails, letters and mailers to The Associated Press through a public records request. They show Right to Work offered candidates a series of seven custom-written letters that would be signed with their digitally scanned signatures and mailed to thousands of voters.
