2018 MT Senate race: on Principles & Values

Jon Tester: AdWatch: Voted with Trump 52%, but against key initiatives

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE ad dubbed "the Tester Test":
• Tester has voted against President Trump "more than 60% of the time": One independent group tracking key votes says Tester has supported Trump's position just 37% of the time.
• However, Congressional Quarterly, which tracks all votes in Congress, said Tester voted with Trump on 52% of the votes where the president took a position in 2017--one of the higher rankings among Senate Democrats.
• Tester has voted against Trump's position on many key items, including repeal of "ObamaCare," against the 2017 GOP tax-cut bill, for reinstating "net neutrality rules," for a bipartisan immigration bill, and for a bill saying certain tariffs should require the approval of Congress.

Albert Olszewski: References to God on federal buildings is ok

A: Albert Olszewski's answer: No

Q: Should a business be able to deny service to a customer if the request conflicts with the owner's religious beliefs?

A: Albert Olszewski's answer: Yes

Jon Tester: No safe haven for neo-Nazi white nationalists

The lawmakers include both Democrats and U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, recently picked by Republican President-elect Donald Trump to be interior secretary. "We say to those few who seek to publicize anti-Semitic views that they shall find no safe haven here," Zinke wrote in an open letter also signed by Gov. Steve Bullock (D); U.S. Sens. Steve Daines (R), and Jon Tester (D); and Attorney General Tim Fox (R).

Neo-Nazis plan to march in January in the mountain ski town of Whitefish in Montana's remote and rugged northwestern reaches. The march is to support the mother of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. Sherry Spencer is facing pressure from community members to sell a building she owns in Whitefish because of its ties to her son and to disavow her son's beliefs.