Bozeman attorney seeks to upset sitting attorney general

Ask Bozeman attorney Ben Alke what prompted him to launch his long-shot campaign to unseat Attorney General Austin Knudsen and he is quick to rattle off stories of what he sees as partisan overreaching by Knudsen.

Back in 2021, for example, Knudsen sent Montana Highway Patrol officers to question hospital officials about their unwillingness to prescribe Ivermectin to a Covid patient. The hospital later complained it amounted to harassment, but the Department of Justice said it had done so at the request of concerned family members.

"A highway patrolman shouldn't have been there in the first pl...