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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Sun Nov 12, 2006 at 22:26:36 PM MST
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The New York Times is reporting on our new Senator. The coverage is actually pretty well done.For all the talk about the new Democrats swept into office on Tuesday, the senator-elect from Montana truly is your grandfather’s Democrat — a pro-gun, anti-big-business prairie pragmatist whose life is defined by the treeless patch of hard Montana dirt that has been in the family since 1916.
It is a place with 105-degree summer days and winter chills of 30 below zero, where his grandparents are buried, where his two children learned to grow crops in a dry land entirely dependent on rainfall, and where, he says, he earned barely $20,000 a year farming over the last decade. Well, durn. I thought he was an elite liberal from the East Coast. My bad. |
| Matt Singer :: The NYT Profiles Our New Senator |
| Steve Doherty gets quoted quite a bit in the article. Steve was minority leader in the Montana Senate when Jon was minority whip. He was also one of the folks early on working to get Jon into the race and someone I've worked with at Progressive States, where he's co-chair of our board. Steve's a great guy. If you know him, you might enjoy reading about him and Jon playing softball together in Great Falls.
A lot of the typical stuff is here: the nasty campaign, the rural roots, the similarities between Brian and Jon.
But there's some new stuff in there, including a nice retelling of how Jon ended up as a Democrat and the fact that his friends -- and his barber -- have faith that he won't change in Washington.
I'd also recommend checking out this piece from the Great Falls Tribune -- a basic piece on where Tester's votes came from. He's got a lot of room for growth in areas that have historically been quite friendly for Democrats, including places like Cascade County. Consider me comfortable that once these voters grow to know Jon, they'll like him. He's going to be in good shape if he wants to be reelected after six years in D.C. |
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