Swing State Project

So here is the press version of the laundry list:

• Promote the production of ethanol in Montana by mandating its use in fuel.
• Require groceries to put up signs telling people the country of origin of most meat sold in stores, even as Congress had passed a similar requirement but postponed it and is considering making it voluntary.
• Reinvest money in state's colleges of technology, the two-year schools.
• Put $80 million into Montana's K-12 school funding over the next two years, which Schweitzer called one of the largest increases in state history.
• Set a balanced budget that will have a projected surplus or general fund balance of about $80 million as of mid-2007, without raising taxes and that honors the spirit of the budget spending cap.
• Eliminate the property tax on business equipment for some 13,000 businesses by raising the exemption from the tax to $20,000 in business equipment, up from the current $5,000.
• Crack down on methamphetamine use in Montana through a series of measures that Schweitzer said amount to the strongest package in the nation, apart from Oklahoma's.
• Help improve access for hunting and fishing by making permanent the Habitat Montana, block management and the fishing access enhancement programs.
• Reinstate the Made in Montana program, which the administration of Republican Gov. Judy Martz had discontinued, to promote items produced and grown in Montana.

Indeed.