Roger Roots
Roger Roots (Libertarian Party) ran for election for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Roger Roots was born in Missoula, Montana.[1] Roots earned a degree in sociology from Montana State University at Billings, a law degree from Roger Williams University, and a Ph.D. in sociology.[1][2] His career experience includes working as an attorney, a college professor, and an author. He founded Lysander Spooner University.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court election, 2024
General election
General election for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court
Incumbent Bowen Greenwood defeated Erin Farris-Olsen and Roger Roots in the general election for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bowen Greenwood (R) | 57.5 | 304,836 |
 | Erin Farris-Olsen (D)  | 38.4 | 203,164 | |
 | Roger Roots (L) | 4.1 | 21,716 | |
| Total votes: 529,716 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court
Erin Farris-Olsen defeated Jordan Ophus in the Democratic primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Erin Farris-Olsen | 82.8 | 75,038 |
 | Jordan Ophus | 17.2 | 15,612 | |
| Total votes: 90,650 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court
Incumbent Bowen Greenwood defeated Jason Ellsworth in the Republican primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bowen Greenwood | 52.6 | 83,379 |
| Jason Ellsworth | 47.4 | 74,999 | ||
| Total votes: 158,378 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Roger Roots advanced from the Libertarian primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Roots in this election.
2022
U.S. House
See also: Montana's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Montana District 2
Incumbent Matt Rosendale defeated Gary Buchanan, Penny Ronning, and Sam Rankin in the general election for U.S. House Montana District 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Matt Rosendale (R) | 56.6 | 121,979 |
 | Gary Buchanan (Independent) | 21.9 | 47,195 | |
 | Penny Ronning (D) | 20.2 | 43,480 | |
 | Sam Rankin (L) | 1.4 | 3,018 | |
| Total votes: 215,672 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Montana District 2
Penny Ronning defeated Mark Sweeney (Unofficially withdrew) and Skylar Williams in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Montana District 2 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Penny Ronning | 58.5 | 21,983 |
 | Mark Sweeney (Unofficially withdrew) | 22.8 | 8,586 | |
 | Skylar Williams | 18.7 | 7,029 | |
| Total votes: 37,598 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Laurie Bishop (D)
- Jack Ballard (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Montana District 2
Incumbent Matt Rosendale defeated Kyle Austin, Charles A. Walking Child, and James Boyette in the Republican primary for U.S. House Montana District 2 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matt Rosendale | 75.7 | 73,453 |
| Kyle Austin | 12.3 | 11,930 | ||
 | Charles A. Walking Child | 6.1 | 5,909 | |
 | James Boyette | 5.9 | 5,712 | |
| Total votes: 97,004 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for U.S. House Montana District 2
Sam Rankin defeated Samuel Thomas and Roger Roots in the Libertarian primary for U.S. House Montana District 2 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sam Rankin | 47.0 | 958 |
| Samuel Thomas | 27.2 | 554 | ||
| Roger Roots | 25.8 | 526 | |
| Total votes: 2,038 | |||
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State House
See also: Montana House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Montana House of Representatives District 60
Incumbent Laurie Bishop defeated Dan Skattum in the general election for Montana House of Representatives District 60 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Laurie Bishop (D) | 57.8 | 3,085 |
 | Dan Skattum (R) | 42.2 | 2,248 | |
| Total votes: 5,333 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Montana House of Representatives District 60
Incumbent Laurie Bishop advanced from the Democratic primary for Montana House of Representatives District 60 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Laurie Bishop | 100.0 | 1,265 |
| Total votes: 1,265 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Montana House of Representatives District 60
Dan Skattum advanced from the Republican primary for Montana House of Representatives District 60 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dan Skattum | 100.0 | 1,141 |
| Total votes: 1,141 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Roger Roots (L)
2020
State Auditor
See also: Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, Auditor election, 2020
General election
General election for Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, State Auditor
Troy Downing defeated Shane Morigeau and Roger Roots in the general election for Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, State Auditor on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Troy Downing (R) | 55.3 | 326,742 |
 | Shane Morigeau (D) | 39.4 | 232,634 | |
| Roger Roots (L) | 5.3 | 31,267 | |
| Total votes: 590,643 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, State Auditor
Shane Morigeau defeated Mike Winsor in the Democratic primary for Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, State Auditor on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Shane Morigeau | 61.3 | 78,608 |
 | Mike Winsor | 38.7 | 49,601 | |
| Total votes: 128,209 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, State Auditor
Troy Downing defeated Scott Tuxbury and Nelly Nicol in the Republican primary for Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, State Auditor on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Troy Downing | 50.0 | 97,498 |
 | Scott Tuxbury | 29.9 | 58,227 | |
 | Nelly Nicol | 20.2 | 39,312 | |
| Total votes: 195,037 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Roger Roots advanced from the Libertarian primary for Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, State Auditor.
Lieutenant Governor
See also: Montana gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2020
Montana gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2020 (June 2 Democratic primary)
Montana gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2020 (June 2 Republican primary)
General election
General election for Lieutenant Governor of Montana
Kristen Juras defeated Casey Schreiner, John Nesper, and Darren Hall in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Montana on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kristen Juras (R) | 54.4 | 328,548 |
 | Casey Schreiner (D) | 41.6 | 250,860 | |
| John Nesper (L) | 4.0 | 24,179 | ||
| Darren Hall (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 21 | ||
| Total votes: 603,608 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joshua Thomas (G)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Montana
Casey Schreiner defeated Buzz Mattelin in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Montana on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Casey Schreiner | 54.9 | 81,527 |
| Buzz Mattelin | 45.1 | 67,066 | ||
| Total votes: 148,593 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Montana
Kristen Juras defeated Jon Knokey and Kenneth Bogner in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Montana on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kristen Juras | 53.4 | 119,247 |
 | Jon Knokey | 27.3 | 60,823 | |
 | Kenneth Bogner | 19.3 | 43,080 | |
| Total votes: 223,150 | |||
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Green primary election
Green primary for Lieutenant Governor of Montana
Joshua Thomas advanced from the Green primary for Lieutenant Governor of Montana on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Joshua Thomas | 100.0 | 713 | |
| Total votes: 713 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. John Nesper advanced from the Libertarian primary for Lieutenant Governor of Montana.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Roger Roots (L)
2018
See also: Montana Supreme Court elections, 2018
General election
General election for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court
Bowen Greenwood defeated Rex Renk and Roger Roots in the general election for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bowen Greenwood (R) | 51.5 | 247,130 |
| Rex Renk (D) | 42.6 | 204,411 | ||
| Roger Roots (L) | 6.0 | 28,760 | |
| Total votes: 480,301 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court
Rex Renk advanced from the Democratic primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Rex Renk | 100.0 | 95,361 | |
| Total votes: 95,361 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court
Bowen Greenwood advanced from the Republican primary for Montana Supreme Court Clerk of Court on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bowen Greenwood | 100.0 | 124,567 |
| Total votes: 124,567 | |||
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2016
Roots ran as a Libertarian for Montana secretary of state. He competed with Montana State Auditor Monica Lindeen (D) and former state Sen. Corey Stapleton (R)—both unopposed for their parties' nominations—in the November 8 general election.
Corey Stapleton defeated Monica Lindeen and Roger Roots in the Montana secretary of state election.
| Montana Secretary of State, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Corey Stapleton |
55.49% | 277,473 | |
| Democratic | Monica Lindeen | 40.97% | 204,861 | |
| Libertarian | Roger Roots | 3.54% | 17,687 | |
| Total Votes | 500,021 | |||
| Source: Montana Secretary of State | ||||
Roger Roots ran unopposed in the Montana Libertarian primary for secretary of state.
| Montana Libertarian primary for secretary of state, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | ||
| Roger Roots | ||
| Source: Montana Secretary of State | ||
2014
Roots ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. Senate, to represent Montana. Roots ran uncontested for the Libertarian nomination in the primary on June 3, 2014, before being defeated by Steve Daines (R) in the general election on November 4, 2014.
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Steve Daines |
57.8% | 213,709 | |
| Democratic | Amanda Curtis | 40.1% | 148,184 | |
| Libertarian | Roger Roots | 2.1% | 7,933 | |
| Total Votes | 369,826 | |||
| Source: Montana Secretary of State | ||||
2012
Roots ran for secretary of state as a Libertarian candidate. He faced incumbent Linda McCulloch (D) and Brad Johnson (R) in the general election on November 6, 2012.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
U.S. House
Roger Roots did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Roots' campaign website stated the following:
| “ |
GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE If you want government “services,” you can pay $200 per month or whatever. If you don’t want them, you shouldn’t have to pay for them (and you shouldn’t get them—even in an emergency).
Evil government regulators now gather data and information on everyone and monitor every transaction. I will lead a movement to stop this data-gathering and eliminate government forms. Government has no right to number us or know what we are doing—or even our names, ages or addresses. I will fight to keep transaction data from government. Government has no right to know when or what we buy, sell, donate, pay or get paid. Or from or to whom.
We should have let nature take its course. We should never have sacrificed the Bill of Rights. COVID was probably created as a bioweapon by the US government (laundered in China for plausible deniability). The ‘vaccines’ are probably another bioweapon designed to depopulate the earth and get people to submit to injection passports. I will stop this evil scam and demand real investigations with no stone unturned.
I’m the guy that broke the international story that the government had quietly removed the signs at Glacier National Park which said the Park’s glaciers would all be gone by 2020. The story went viral. Rush Limbaugh opened his show one morning with my story. I have been hiking and climbing on Montana glaciers since I was 9 years old. They decrease some years and increase in other years. US government agencies such as NOAA and NASA have been caught hundreds of times faking and manipulating data to promote the global warming doomsday hoax. In Congress I will relentlessly investigate these government scammers, forcing them to answer questions under oath. I will always fight for energy freedom. Americans must be able to choose for themselves which energy sources they use. No more subsidies for wind, solar, or other types of energy (including oil and gas). Unleash the free market. Every individual decides his own energy fate. The quickest way to save any endangered species is to allow people to own, ranch, hunt, buy, sell, kill, cook and eat the species.
The tax rate should be zero percent. If the government wants to pay for something, they can launch a GoFundMe. If a program can’t meet its funding requirement, then the people don’t want it and it shouldn’t exist.
I’m pretty radical. I think the roads depicted in Mad Max—unpatrolled with wreckage lining the sides—would be just fine. (In reality any wreckage would likely be cleaned up by volunteer recyclers, and private road groups would emerge to keep roads safe.) I will work to abolish all driver license and car registration requirements. Government has no right to know who owns or drives every car. ONLY GOVERNMENT CARS SHOULD HAVE LICENSE PLATES.
There's nothing more libertarian than crowd-sourced funding, a concept that has proven the taxation can be replaced entirely with voluntary funding for good ideas.
Instead of a petition, an amendment, or a resolution to secede, We should have a ballot referendum every election to reaffirm whether or not we want to stay.[3] |
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| —Roger Roots' campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
State House
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2020
Roger Roots did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roger Roots for Congress, "About," accessed April 21, 2022
- ↑ Court Listener, "In Re Roots, 762 A.2d 1161 (R.I. 2000)," accessed April 21, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Roger Roots for Congress, “Home,” accessed April 21, 2022
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