Bob Kelleher on Principles & Values Republican challenger

Admits past failings to prevent Baucus from attacking

• As a 23-year-old man, Kelleher was a friar in a Carmelite monastery 18 months away from ordination into the priesthood. He dropped out, Kelleher said, because he couldn't handle the vow of chastity.
• He has been married & divorced three times. He has seven children and regrets the impact his absence had on their lives. Kelleher said he particularly regrets the way he walked out on his first wife, Gerry, mother to his six oldest children and to whom he was long married.
• "I wanted to have fun," he said, but his fun hurt his children and his wife, whom he described as "wonderful."

Ran for office in past as Green and as Democrat

Lovaas is running as an independent, because, she says, the man who won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate this year is not a bona fide Republican. He is Bob Kelleher, who was the Green Party nominee for Governor in 2004 [and has run for public office as a Democrat].

Nominated but barred from speaking at state GOP convention

State Republican Chairman Erik Iverson decided not to allow Kelleher to speak during one of the meals at the convention, as other statewide candidates were allowed to do. Iverson said it appeared that the only plank of the Republican platform Kelleher agrees with was opposition to abortion.