Secession: More Residents Want to Secede From Missoula County

First, there were the Swan Valley and Condon secessionists, a group exploring a ballot initiative that would allow them to secede from Missoula to Lake County. Now Petty Creek residents are also looking to leave Missoula County to join Mineral County.

“They feel like the unwanted stepchild out there,” Rep. Gordon Hendrick, R-Superior, told the Clark Fork Chronicle.

Both groups are located on the far edges of the county and say they pay high taxes with little return.

jhwygirl at 4&20 blackbirds suggests that both sides might be better off if they part ways.