Hingham farmer, aviator challenges for House seat

A local farmer and aviator is challenging a Republican representative in the 2014 primary in a district that stretches from the Canadian border to Great Falls.

Darrold Hutchinson, who farms north of Hingham, said the spending increases in the last Legislature were, in his mind, far too much and he wants new money coming into the state through natural resource harvesting, including agriculture, forestry, oil and natural gas and mining.

"If we're going to grow some wealth in Montana, we need some more new money," he said at a meeting of the local Pachyderm Club Friday in Havre.

He also said the...