Jergeson gives senator a history lesson

A former state senator and chair of the state Public Service Commission wanted to set the record straight on a couple of items during a legislative video conference in Havre Wednesday.

Democrat Greg Jergeson of Chinook, first elected to the state Senate in 1974, told freshman Sen. Rowlie Hutton, R-Havre, that he "read with interest your column" in the Jan. 6 edition of The Havre Daily News, "and I had some concerns about a couple of instances of what I think were probably a bit of inaccuracy in what you reported."

In the column, Hutton wrote that people need to be reminded that, while Gov....