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.
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.
Jon Tester supported the tax credit which helped 25,000 Montana families and individuals receive an average rebate of $1,900 on tuition costs and fees in 2011
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.
