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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/bigfork_lawmaker_divorces_the_gop/1510/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: A week after news broke that he would not seek re-election in 2009, Bigfork lawmaker Bill Jones describes how he feels with a word: “emancipated.” “I’m excited about it, it’s not out of frustration,” he says of his decision to withdraw from the Republican party and focus his efforts during the 2009 Legislature on volunteering as an unpaid lobbyist advocating for health care, education and other issues. When the term of Sen. Greg Barkus, R-Kalispell, expires in 2010, Jones intends to run for the seat as an Independent.