Twenty-year-old college student Finley Warden said he attended an October educator conference organized by the Montana Federation of Public Employees, the state’s largest union, as “a concerned Montanan.”

“I truly care about our education system, its integrity, and I care about the professional development training that is being taught to our teachers,” Warden, who said he grew up attending public schools in Missoula, told Montana Free Press on Oct 28. “Because when I went through the Montana public school system, I really saw firsthand how leftism and leftist indoctrination has been pushed in the classroom, and teachers’ unions, specifically this MFPE conference, has been a source of that indoctrination in Montana.”

Warden — who lives in Bozeman and recently began online studies at Libe

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