It is payback time for Senator Jon Tester. We all remember he was promised a seat on the Appropriations Committee by Majority Leader Harry Reid back in 2006. Now, Tester is paying back Reid for that seat by campaigning for him in Elko, Nevada.

On August 27, Tester was in Nevada campaigning for Reid according to this article (which was posted on Saturday, August 28).

Tester’s schedule that day listed “No Public Events” and I guess that must mean “public events” in Montana.

Tester has campaigned for quite a few folks in his three-plus years in office. Of course, these trips are mostly paid for by campaign funds by the people he’s campaigning for, and it’s legal to do, but it would be nice to know exactly how many trips he has taken to campaign for other people and the time he’s spent outside of Montana. Continue reading →