New Mouthpiece

It looks like Montana’s junior Senator, Jon Tester, has hired a new Communications Director. His name is Patrick Devlin. He starts Monday. So from the bloggers of Montana, at least a few of us, welcome Mr. Devlin.

According to the Tester press release, Mr. Devlin “attended” Carroll College in Helena for an unspecified amount of time and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1989. Since the press release did not state that he was born in Montana, I’m guessing he was not.

A friend reminded me that maybe the reason Tester could not find a Montanan to be his communications guy or gal, was because Max Baucus had hired them all for his campaign.

Anyway, it looks like Washington is still looking like Washington, instead of more like Montana, as promised by Tester.

Still waiting

Since it’s been about a month since my last post about this, I thought I would let my readers know that I’m still waiting for Sen. Tester to fulfill his campaign promise by having a “Montana” judge conduct an “ethics audit” of his “Federal” U.S. Senate office every year. It’s been over a year.

Security

Speaking of Sen. Tester, he’s ask Senator Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who is Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, to hold a hearing in Montana this summer about northern border security. That is a good move to do all we can to ensure America is protected.

This would also be a great opportunity for Sen. Lieberman to hold a fundraiser in Montana for Sen. John McCain. Lieberman has endorsed McCain for President.

Tester was quoted in this article saying, “Whether it’s making sure we have enough people to staff the Port of Sweetgrass, or getting better radar coverage to detect small planes that can currently fly across unnoticed, we have no room to fail.”

I agree that we have no room to fail in protecting our country. Then why did Sen. Tester vote against reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)? The bill provides intelligence professionals with the tools they need to keep America safe from terrorists. Yes, we have no room to fail.

By the way, Sen. Lieberman voted for reauthorization of FISA.