Rep. DeVries aims to redefine ‘person,’ keep government small at legislative session

Freshman Republican Rep. Greg DeVries anticipated spending the first days of the 2019 Session of the Montana Legislature “getting my feet under me” and, “not having played the game before,” learning “the inner workings at the capitol,” he said over coffee in Boulder last Friday.

The previous day, DeVries attended his first Jefferson County governing meeting, that of the Boulder Transition Advisory Committee. It was his first time meeting some of the local officials and hearing their concerns including hopes for repurposing the Montana Developmental Center.

“I’m not exactly sure what I can directly do,” DeVries said last Friday. “My job description is to write laws or vote on laws.”