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Representative Paul Green, currently serving as a Montana State Legislator from House District 41 near Hardin, Montana, is the newly selected head of the Montana Department of Commerce. Green is serving his first term in the legislature and represents Lame Deer, Busby, Colstrip, and Wyola. The announcement will be official on Thursday, January 11, 2024.
He served on the following committees: State Administration; Energy, Technology, and Federal Relations; Agriculture; and Legislative Administration.
Green's Ballotpedia page contains the following entry:
"Paul Green served in the U.S. Navy as a sonar technician on submarines. Green earned a degree from Rocky Mountain College. His career experience includes operating a cow/calf operation in Bighorn County and working as the executive director for the NASA business incubator MBI and as the economic development director for Hardin. Green became a member of Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion. He was also a founding board member of the Bighorn Search and Rescue nonprofit. Green began serving as the Bighorn County Fair superintendent and volunteered with the fair's FFA 4H and the Youth Development Authority. He also became a sitting member of the county tax appeal board and joined the Little Horn State Bank Board of Directors."
The Department of Commerce's Director position has been vacant since the previous Director, Scott Osterman, stepped down when allegations surfaced concerning his improperly spending state funds.
Governor Gianforte's placing Green in the Commerce Department means one of Montana's largest tax and spend politicians, Rep Llew Jones of Conrad, will control the budget director, agricultural department, legislative liaison, lottery director, legislative finance, and labor and industry. Jones is the head of the "Solutions" Caucus which is often referred to as The Surrender Caucus as they often align with big government and big spending and thus "surrender" their oaths of office and the GOP platform to special interests and big donors. The latest evidence of the surrender caucus position is their voting against a special session to address high property taxes across the state.
