Record Warchest To Buy An Election

Burns is reporting 7 million in election contributions. According to the story, a certain amount will go to defend himself in the Abromoff scandal, but the vast sum will go to buying the election with a media blitz against the sensibilities of our good state.

‘‘We know that every extremist left wing group in the country is going to donate to liberal Jon Tester,’’ Klindt said. ‘‘We have an obligation to defend ourselves from those attacks and we will be ready.’

I usually try to play nice about these things, but this sort of thing really angers me. Here they are trying to scare Montanans into believing that Tester is a puppet for out of state liberal groups in order to hide the fact that they are puppets of out of state corporations, tribes and rich folk in general. Luckily, the people of Montana are too smart to buy into it. I have said this before, so much so that people may start referring to this as the Burns-Is-A-Puppet-For-Out-Of-State-Interest-Blog, but

BURNS Donations for 2006:
In-State $663,824 (21%)
Out-of-State $2,464,034 (79%)

TESTER Donations for 2006:
In-State $160,719 (50%)
Out-of-State $159,650 (50%)

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I am interested to see how these numbers will change when the new reporting cycle is added. Before you vote, consider what Burns has done with his time in Washington so far, it's nothing good.