Lee Newspapers Profile Tester
Jennifer McKee of the Montana Lee State Bureau took some time to interview Jon and write about the campaign awhile back and her candidate profile appeared in Lee Newspapers today.
The piece is a straightforward and sometimes surprising glimpse inside the day-to-day life of the Tester family and the campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Unseating Burns is not the only reason he??s running for Senate, Tester said. It??s not even one of the top reasons.
Tester is running because Big Sandy public schools used to need three bus routes to pick up all the farm kids; now the farm kids barely fill up one. Working families used to have a shot at being middle class; now they??re treading water.
Tester is running because a couple of weeks ago a single mom called him up. ???She??s a Big Sandy girl,??? he said. Her daughter survived childhood brain cancer and now requires shots that cost $6,400 a year.
Insurance doesn??t cover it.
???When I think about prescription drugs, those are the kinds of faces that pop into my mind,??? said Tester.
Check out the Billings Gazette for the complete story. The Gazette also has Jon’s answers to key personal and political issues.
Posted on Sunday, May 21st, 2006 at 10:08 pm. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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