Champ Edmunds

Champ Edmunds
Montana House of Representatives, District 100
Incumbent
In office
2011 - Present
Term ends
January 5, 2015
Years in position	2
Party	Republican
Compensation
Base salary	$82.64/day
Per diem	$105.31/day
Elections and appointments
Last election	November 6, 2012
First elected	2010
Next election	November 4, 2014
Term limits	4 terms (8 years)
Military service
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	10
Personal
Profession	Mortgage consultant
Websites
Office website
Campaign website

Champ Edmunds is a Republican member of the Montana House of Representatives, representing District 100 since 2011.

Edmunds served in the United States Navy from 1984-1994, and works as a mortgage consultant for Wells Fargo.

Edmunds earned a B.S. in business administration.

Issues

Campaign themes

Edmunds' website highlights the following campaign themes:

Healthcare

• Excerpt:"The big government Obamacare approach is not something the majority of Montanans want. It creates layers of new taxes, regulations, and bureaucracies that will ultimately make our problems worse, not better and cost our State millions of dollars. Montana needs to be able to opt out of this terrible program."

Jobs

• Excerpt:"With our abundant Natural Resources our state should have an abundance of good paying Jobs. Yet hard working families all across Montana are hurting. Our young people shouldn’t have to leave the state in order to support their families. If we truly want to create good jobs in Montana we need to have less, not more Government and allow our free enterprise system to work."

Energy

• Excerpt:"Montana is the “Treasure State” with huge deposits of natural resourses that need to be and should be developed. Coal, gas, oil, wind, and timber are abundant. We can and should mine, drill and cut in an environmentally friendly manner. Let’s remove the bureaucratic restrictions on utilizing our natural resources."

Education

• Excerpt:"While our state is doing well when compared to other states, it is not doing so well when compared to other countries. In an increasingly global economy that is where we need to base our comparisons. We need to move from a bureaucrat-dominated status quo to an innovative system that emphasizes accountability, transparency, and parental choice. Parents should be able to choose the right school for their child."

States’ rights

• Excerpt:"The Tenth Amendment is clear. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The federal government has over stepped its Constitutional authority and it is the States that need to keep them in check. Utah, Arizona, and other states are challenging the Federal assumption of authority not given them and Montana needs to actively step forward and back those efforts."

Health Care Compact

Edmunds introduced HB 526, an act entitled "An Act Authorizing an Interstate Health Care Compact And Directing the Governor to Join the Compact" in the Montana House of Representatives on February 12, 2011.

Committee assignments

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Edmunds served on the following committees:

Montana Committee Assignments, 2013
• Appropriations
• Rules
• General Government

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Edmunds served on these committees:

Montana Committee Assignments, 2011
• Appropriations
• General Government

Elections

2012

See also: Montana House of Representatives elections, 2012

Edmunds won re-election in the 2012 election for Montana House of Representatives, District 100. Edmunds ran unopposed in the June 5 primary election and defeated Dave Andrews (D) in the general election which took place on November 6, 2012.

Montana House of Representatives, District 100, General Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Champ Edmunds Incumbent	56%	2,606
	Democratic	Dave Andrews	44%	2,049
Total Votes				4,655

2010

See also: Montana House of Representatives elections, 2010

On November 2, 2010 Edmunds won election to the Montana House of Representatives. Edmunds did not have any opposition in the June 8 primary. He faced Willis Curdy (D) in the November 2 general election.

Montana House of Representatives, District 100 General Election (2010)
Candidates		Votes
Champ Edmunds (R)		1,884
Willis Curdy (D)		1,618

Campaign donors

2012

Campaign donor information is not yet available for this year.

2010

In 2010, a year in which Edmunds was up for re-election, he collected $10,212 in donations.

No contributions to his campaign were over $1,000.

Recent news

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Champ Edmunds News Feed

• Disconnect between voters, Legislature leaves work undone - Missoulian - The Missoulian
• Just One Vote Keeps Ban on Raw Milk Sales in Montana - Food Safety News
• Montana Democrat Baucus Rules Out 7th Senate term - TIME
• Measures to decrease jobless vets in motion - Great Falls Tribune
• Missoula legislators weigh in on building new Missoula College - NBC Montana
• Republicans hold Lincoln- Reagan dinner at PGC - Independent Observer
• Bracing ourselves for a new Senate - QNotes

Personal

Edmunds has two children.

External links

Suggest a link

• Official biography from the Montana House of Representatives
• Official Campaign Website

• Summary, biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Campaign contributions at Follow The Money
• Profile at Wikipedia

References

Political offices
Preceded by Bill Nooney (R)	Montana House of Representatives District 100 2011–present	Succeeded by N/A