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Forward Montana launches pink bunny campaign to encourage voting
Posted on Sept. 19

By KEILA SZPALLER of the Missoulian

Western Montanans have got critters on the mind. First it was urban chickens in Missoula, and then it was fire-starting squirrels near Seeley Lake.

A political activism organization is capitalizing on the animal craze with pink bunnies. Devoted to young Montanans, Forward Montana is using fuzzy rabbit ears and pink T-shirts to encourage Missoulians to re-register to vote in the upcoming city election.

“Re-register to vote - or feel my wrath,” says a decidedly wrathless looking rabbit with hearts for eyes from www.pinkbunnies.org.

Read more in Thursday’s newspaper and at Missoulian.com.

Reporter Keila Szpaller can be reached at 523-5262 or at Keila.Szpaller@missoulian.com.


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