Billings Gazette Endorses Jon Tester
The Billings Gazette today endorsed Jon Tester for U.S. Senate:
In January 2004, as a leader of Montana Democrats, state Sen. Jon Tester held a press conference at which he advocated increased worker training, responsible development of natural resources, expanded employee health care and better funding for education. The 2005 Legislature in which Tester served as Senate president made progress toward those goals:
• The colleges of technology received more building and equipment money than ever before.
• The Children’s Health Insurance Program was expanded.
• A prescription discount program was set up.
• Programs were established to make employee insurance costs affordable for small businesses and their workers.
• K-12 education got a bigger funding boost than it had in a decade….
To support work-force and entrepreneurial development, Tester would make two-year and four-year college programs more affordable with expansion of Pell grants, increased availability of low-interest student loans, work-study programs and student loan forgiveness to people in critical occupations (e.g. nurses, doctors, teachers) who agree to work in shortage areas….
Tester has pledged that, if elected to the U.S. Senate, he will adhere to stricter ethical standards than Congress requires in reporting and refusing lobbyist gifts. Contrast that with Burns’ decision to celebrate his 71st birthday with a $2,000-per-person party at a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. Or his choice in September to take the Vonage private jet from D.C. to Bigfork to his annual golf tournament. Nothing illegal in either case, but is that the image Montanans want their senator to present?
For those Montanans who are appalled at the burgeoning national debt, concerned about U.S. foreign policy, alarmed that today’s spending will be paid for by our children and grandchildren and fed up with business as usual in Washington, D.C., Tester is a fresh alternative. Those who want change have an intelligent, hardworking, common-sense choice in voting for Jon Tester.
Read the entire endorsement here.
Posted on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 at 10:16 am. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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November 2nd, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Jon Tester,
What is your SELECT and EXACT and PRECISE opinion and philosophy
about the 2000% TOTALLY ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL charade and facade of the Federal Reserve and the IRS ?
Thank you…………”Ship”