Do tell, Mr. Downing

Can you say carpetbagger?

Troy Downing, a part-time resident of the toney Yellowstone Club at Big Sky, wants to represent Montana in the U.S. Senate.

The head of a California-based self-storage company told the Associated Press he wants “to be part of the solution preserving the Last Best Place.” Apparently, however, that solution involves little regard for the state’s fish and game laws. The 50-year-old storage unit mogul faces charges that he tried to buy resident hunting and fishing licenses as a nonresident.

He is also charged with transferring a hunting license to another pers...