NEWS RELEASE
(for immediate release - August 22, 2012)
Unique Campaign Trivia Contest with $2,000 Cash Prize
House District 99
MISSOULA - An innovative and unique contest with a $2,000 cash
prize is being offered for the voters of House District 99 by
legislative candidate Gary Marbut. Marbut is offering a
$2,000 cash prize in a drawing among registered HD 99 voters who
can correctly answer a trivia question based on information
available in Marbut's website at www.ElectMarbut.com.
There is no cost for qualified participants to enter the
contest. Although participants must demonstrate that they
are registered voters of HD 99, they are not asked to vote for
Marbut, or to promise to vote for Marbut.
Each week a new trivia question will be posed. Every HD 99
voter who correctly answers the trivia question in an email entry
will go into a drawing for the $2,000 cash prize.
Participants may enter once each week from now until the General
Election. The promised $2,000 has been deposited with the
local accounting firm of Galusha, Higgins and Galusha, and Galusha
will conduct the drawing on the day before election day, November
6th.
Marbut announced the contest and prize in a postcard mailing to
registered HD 99 voters today.
Marbut commented, "I'd much rather see my campaign funds go to
some interested person in House District 99 than to pour the same
money into incessant junk mail. It is my choice to share my
campaign funding with the people of HD 99 in this way."
Marbut hopes voters will also learn things about him by visiting
his Website that they might not know: That he is an organic
gardener, a dog-lover, a guru of energy conservation, an amateur
musician, very experienced with the legislative process, that he
lives in an active and passive solar home he built himself, lives
in the district, and is independent-minded.
Marbut has researched Montana lottery and gambling laws, which do
not apply to this contest because there is no cost for
participants to enter the drawing - nothing at risk. The
office of the Commissioner of Political Practices has informed
Marbut that this contest is an acceptable use of funds raised for
his HD 99 campaign.
Westside resident Tim Boileau spoke about the contest.
"Because this contest is so unique, it shows that Gary Marbut
thinks outside the box and comes up with creative ideas, just the
sort of person the people of HD 99 need to represent them in the
Montana Legislature."
HD 99 residents may go to ElectMarbut.com
each week to see the new trivia question presented. Then
they may send an email to Contest@ElectMarbut.com providing
sufficient information to qualify the entrant as a registered
voter in HD 99, and answering the trivia question presented for
the week, to get into the drawing for the $2,000 cash prize on
November 5th. A person who enters correctly every week will
have the person's name in the drawing multiple times, once for
each correct entry for each week.
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Information: Gary Marbut: 549-1252; gary@ElectMarbut.com