Rasmussen Reports released a new poll today, which shows Denny leading Senator Tester 53% to 43% in Montana's U.S. Senate race. Seven out of the last eight polls show Denny in the lead. Between now and November, there are likely to be a lot of different polls showing a variety of scenarios, but with the continued hard work and support of Montanans like you, we can win on Election Day.
Senator Tester likes to pretend he's independent, but reports show that in Washington Tester has supported President Obama's big-spending liberal agenda 95 percent of the time — casting the deciding vote to pass Obama's $1.2 trillion health care law, allowing taxpayer-funded bailout bonuses for fat cat executives at insurance giant AIG, putting Obama's anti-gun activist judges on the U.S. Supreme Court, and much more. Tester campaigned as a tax-cutter, but in Washington he's voted in favor of higher taxes 55 times, and voted for the job-killing "cap-and-trade" energy tax...
Take our poll and tell us — which Jon Tester vote do you think was the worst for Montana?
As Senator Tester and his special-interest allies continue their dishonest attacks against Denny, yet another disturbing report has emerged regarding their behavior. From strong-arm tactics against the business community on his behalf, to revelations that his own advisers are hypocritically running the same type of anonymously-funded attack ads he claims to oppose, to his hypocritical ties to the same "high-dollared lobbyists" he claimed to oppose — this appears to be just the latest in a string of disturbing information to emerge about Tester's special-interest hypocrisy.
In case you missed it, Senator Jon Tester appeared on MSNBC earlier today, where he made some comments worth taking note of...
By Mike Dennison
April 15, 2012
WASHINGTON — As a crucial U.S. House budget vote nears, Rep. Denny Rehberg is standing in his Washington, D.C., office, outlining his schedule so he can get to the Capitol to cast his vote.
"Here's what I want to happen," he tells a staffer. "If the Gun Owners are here, I'll walk with them up there while we're getting ready to vote. If Rich Foster (a top financial analyst at Medicare) gets here early enough, bring him over, and I'll meet with him outside."
It's 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 29, in Washington, the final day Congress is meeting before its two-week Easter break.
Rehberg — who's in a dogfight of a Senate race with Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester — has already been working more than eight hours, rising at 5:30 a.m. from the black leather couch in his office that he calls his bed.
By day's end, Rehberg will be on a late flight back to Montana — and, in between, he'll meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, chair an appropriations subcommittee hearing, grab some lunch with staff in the House-members-only dining room, meet with constituents and lobbyists in his office and, somewhere in there, cast five votes.
(CLICK HERE to read the rest, at the Billings Gazette...)
Tester’s Bounty
Washington Free Beacon
By Bill McMorris
April 13, 2012
http://freebeacon.com/testers-bounty/
The lobbying industry’s favorite senator has turned Big Bank protections into a flood of campaign cash.
Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.) received nearly $300,000 from lobbyists in 2012, making him the top recipient of K Street dollars, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Tester has denied the fact on multiple occasions, saying it is “not true.”
But a Washington Free Beacon review of campaign contributions reveals that Tester leads all Senators in lobbying cash. He is also flush in contributions from Wall Street firms and big banks, ranking second in the Senate for commercial bank donations, third for credit card companies, and tenth for investment banks...