Jon Tester for U.S. Senate

[Governor Schweitzer sent the following email to our supporters today. Join the campaign to get these updates immediately.]

Jon Tester and I share the same strong Montana roots.

His grandparents homesteaded 20 miles from my grandparents, and Jon and I were born in the same hospital in Havre, Montana.

In public service here in Montana, we live by one test: what’s best for the people of this great state. Jon and I are working together here in Montana, living by that simple rule, to move Montana forward. Last year, I worked closely with Jon when he served as President of the Montana Senate. Jon and I led the fight for a prescription drug benefit for seniors, eliminated taxes on 13,000 small businesses, and delivered a plan to make Montana a national leader on renewable energy ??? all while balancing the budget and without raising taxes.

We need more of that kind of leadership. Let’s send Jon to represent Montana in the U.S. Senate:

http://www.testerforsenate.com/contribute

I know Senator Burns will pull out all the stops to stay in power.

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The Hotline updated their top ten senate races today — Chuck Todd and Quinn McCord had this to say about Montana:

2. Montana [Burns (R), Last Ranking: 2]

If any race other than Pennsylvania ever occupies our top slot, it will be this one. After watching the first of what we believe will be many Tester-Burns debates, we??re sorry we EVER underestimated Tester. How wrong we were about this guy. Perhaps the most intriguing development over the last month is the pessimism we??re sensing from D.C. Republicans over Burns — more so, frankly, than the worry we??re hearing over Santorum.

Check out the Hotline for the whole top ten.

We’ve seen a steady pace of letters to the editor since the primary. And from the looks of things, Montanans aren’t going to let Senator Burns take a summer vacation. This, from the letters page of the Billings Gazette.

They are insulting our intelligence, especially since they take off after a “flat top.” That would be funny if it were not so important for us to elect somebody who will really try to represent us and our state. Burns’ consultants might tell us what Conrad Burns thinks instead of what they think Jon Tester believes.

I hope we will all register and vote for Tester. Let’s show these high priced, out-of-state flunkies that we can think for ourselves.

Sally Jordan
Billings

[Jon sent the following email to campaign supporters earlier today. Want to stay in the loop? Join the campaign today.]

Earlier this month, on June 6th, Montanans sent a loud message to the press and pundits and to the political establishment in Washington, D.C. — the 2006 election in Montana is not for sale to the highest bidder.

We won on June 6th because of your strong grassroots support — spending just $11 per vote compared to more than $50 that Senator Burns spent for each of his.

Now is the time to send the message again. As we enter the long 4th of July weekend, we’ll pass the end-of-the-quarter fundraising deadline at midnight, this Friday, June 30th.

How well we do will make a tremendous difference in our efforts to declare Montana’s independence from the pay-to-play culture of Conrad Burns and Washington, D.C.:

http://www.testerforsenate.com/contribute

The fact is, Conrad Burns and his cronies are running scared — and the beltway Republicans are nervous. They know that if they lose this Senate seat to our campaign, they could lose control of the U.S. Senate.

And they know from my record that when I get to Washington, I won’t be looking the other way from the culture of corruption that has poisoned our political process.

That’s why Conrad Burns is busy going on bended knee to his lobbyist friends — because he’ll need a dumptruck load of his special interest money to try to confuse voters about his record and hold on to his seat.

I need your help today to make sure we have the resources to fight back against their attack ads — and to make the U.S. Senate look a bit more like Montana — honest, ethical, and hardworking:

http://www.testerforsenate.com/contribute

I believe this election is about our independence — something we value highly here in Montana.

It’s time for Montana to declare our independence from the pay-to-play culture of Conrad Burns and the DC establishment.

It’s time for us to declare our independence from a political system where attack ads and special interest money rule the day.

It’s time for us to declare our independence from elected officials who choose to represent big money over working people.

And it’s time for us to declare our independence from an energy policy that leaves us held hostage to events in the Middle East — and it’s time for us to build a new energy policy that brings jobs to Montana and strengthens our national security by making our nation independent of Middle Eastern oil.

Together, we can do that. But it will only happen if you take action along with the thousands of others who are reading this message today:

http://www.testerforsenate.com/contribute

If everyone contributes whatever amount they can afford, we will have the resources we need to defeat Conrad Burns and move this country forward — to a place that looks a bit more like the Montana we know and love.

http://www.testerforsenate.com/contribute

Thank you for taking action.

Jon Tester

P.S. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Friday at midnight.

Please, give what you can today.