Will a Democrat say anything to get elected?
March 17th, 2008 by Wiley CodyOf course, by now everyone knows that Harry Reid was lying to Montana when he promised Jon Tester a seat on the Appropriations Committee. It was a strange offer though if you think about it, because the bread and butter of an appropriator is the earmark and Jon Tester told Montanans that he didn’t like any earmarks at all. But I digress.
Two of our favorite blogs have weighed in:
Jack has a great post up about Tester on earmarks 14 months after taking office. Go read it. Watch the video.
Tester’s vote against the moratorium on earmarks is quite a different view than he had back in 2006 when he was running for the U.S. Senate, and that is a fact.
And then Montana Headlines had this commentary to add.
So why isn’t the vigilant Montana press doing this kind of homework, and asking hard questions of Sen. Tester? Why doesn’t the Gazette article mention Tester’s constant beating of the drum against earmarks in his campaign challenge to Burns?
I particularly enjoyed the statements that MH wrote for Tester for the sake of accuracy. Go take a look.
