Wylie Galt, a farmer and rancher of Martinsdale, is the newly elected Speaker of the Montana House of Representatives, and will preside when the 2021 session begins in January.
Earlier Wednesday, I wrote about how the Montana Democrats locked themselves inside "the Helena bubble" before losing big in the 2020 elections. What did Democrats in the Montana State Legislature do later that same day? They selected two lawmakers from Helena to serve as their leaders in both chambers.