Title: Montana's Democrat Senate Candidate John Tester: "With laws passed like the Patriot Act, we need the 2nd Amendment now more than ever!" Source:
debate broadcast on C-SPAN URL Source:http://none Published:Oct 2, 2006 Author:John Tester Post Date:2006-10-02 02:08:43 by Arator Ping List:*Restore the Republic*Subscribe to *Restore the Republic* Keywords:Dem, Trumps, GOP Views:2900 Comments:87
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News Analysis From the debate Lobbying Questions Fire Up Butte Burns-Tester Senate Debate By Paul Driscoll, 9-24-06
The latest Jon Tester-Conrad Burns debate in Butte, Montana on Saturday evening drew an increasing share of national media attention but offered up few new insights into either candidate. Still, the national spotlight will show a Reagan-era conservative and a populist progressive widely separated on key issues such as the war in Iraq, the war on terror, and taxation policy.
Burns, the three-term Republican incumbent, failed to address the most pointed question of the debate, predictably whether disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff influenced two of his votes in the U.S. Senate. Burns repeatedly called the charges “baseless allegations and untruths.”
Tester, who showed a fuller range of emotion in the course of the evening, probably found a sound bite moment in response to a Burns charge that he is “soft on terrorism.” Tester, Burns said, “doesn’t understand this enemy” and would weaken the Patriot Act. “Let me be clear,” Tester shot back sharply. “I don’t want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.”