Montanans across the state are opening their local newspapers this week to find full-page ads contrasting Jon Tester’s Montana-first agenda with the wrong priorities of his fellow U.S. Senate candidates, Congressman Dennis Rehberg and Libertarian Dan Cox.
The campaign of Montana farmer Jon Tester today released clips of key moments in Montana’s first televised U.S. Senate debate.
As the head of a key education funding committee, Rehberg introduced a spending proposal that cut education funding by more than $1 billion–cuts the National Education Association called “the wrong priorities.”
As chairman of a congressional committee that oversees education funding, Rehberg last year voted to gut Pell Grants—financial assistance that serve 24,000 Montana students ever year.
Rehberg’s irresponsible back handsprings and round-offs have left Montanans wondering why their out-of touch Congressman wants to make it harder for them to pay for college.
Rep. Rehberg voted to gut Head Start, hurting hundreds of thousands of children—while protecting tax breaks for millionaires.
The organization specifically slams Rehberg for trying to end initiatives that modernize vaccines, cut tobacco use among children and fight childhood obesity.
Rehberg’s proposal completely eliminates AmeriCorps, a volunteer service organization that provides Montana with nearly 1,200 volunteers who will perform 70,000 service hours this year alone.
In 2011, after supporting significant cuts to Pell Grants, Rehberg famously called them the “welfare of the 21st Century.”
“This is too important, as are a lot of other things, to turn into a political tool,” Tester said.
