Jen Gross is a Democratic member of the

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, where she represents District 25. She was first elected in 2016. Gross was re-elected to the state senate in 2020. Gross has worked as a community organizer and on political campaigns since 2008. She was the manager of field operations at

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of Montana when she was appointed as the replacement candidate for SD 25 in August 2016. In December 2019, ''

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'' detailed how an editorial in the ''

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'' against Medicare-for-all by Gross was drafted with the help of a lobbying group,

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. Gross said she writes less than half of her op-eds.

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