Tester

Jon Tester and Denny Rehberg debate.

A brief history of cancer politics in the Tester/Rehberg senate race.

The latest campaign finance report for U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg still contains a larger portion of donors with no reported occupation than his opponent, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.

Senator Jon Tester recently invited Congressman Denny Rehberg in a ban on third-party ads. You can hear the details of the offer from the Communications Director of the Tester Campaign, Aaron Murphy. I understand why any campaign would want to get negative ads out of the race, but I have difficulty seeing the harm in positive ads. The whole issue has me a bit conflicted. Here are the two reasons why the issue is so troublesome to me.

Jon Tester and Denny Rehberg are fighting back and forth over campaign donations. Tester is accusing Rehberg of not fully disclosing information (specifically, not posting the occupations of donors).

Next week, the United States senate will vote on a bill that, if enacted, would ban the trading of corporate stocks by members of congress based on non-public information. The bill, known as the STOCK Act (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act) was authored by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D) and Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R).

Senators Announce Organizations, Communities Across the State to Receive Resources for Redeveloping Contaminated Properties   (Washington, D.C.) – Montana’s U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester today announced new resources for the city of Kalispell, the Salish Kootenai Tribes and economic development organizations serving dozens of counties across Montana to create jobs cleaning up contaminat