Greg Gianforte, a tech entrepreneur whose foundation donated to a creationist dinosaur museum, filed paperwork this week for an exploratory campaign to run for governor of Montana.
Gianforte, who could be among the Republicans seeking to unseat Gov.
Steve Bullock (D) next year, sold his software company RightNow
Technologies to Oracle for about $1.5 billion in 2012. Since then, he
has pushed his Better Montana Jobs initiative, which aims to promote
high-wage employment.
In 2006, he established the Gianforte Family Foundation
with his wife "in response to God's great goodness to them." The
foundation focuses on "improving education, lifting people out of
poverty, protecting the unborn, and Christian outreach." According to
its website, last year's grantees included groups against gay marriage,
such as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, as well as
the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys, which aims to show "the adventure
of receiving [Jesus Christ] as Savior and Lord."
The foundation donated the T. rex and
Acrocanthosaurus exhibit to the $1.5 million Glendive Dinosaur and
Fossil Museum, which opened in 2009. The Billings Gazette noted at the time that it was "the largest donation for a specific exhibit."
GOPer Whose Foundation Backed Creationist Dinosaur Museum Explores Run For Governor
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