Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: CNN: How Democrats lost the shutdown [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)6. I found this on Sen. Tester of Montana
Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana has voted against a bipartisan agreement to re-open the federal government after a three-day shutdown. He was the only no vote Monday among 10 incumbent Democrats facing re-election this year in states won by President Donald Trump in 2016.
Tester says the budget deal did not include funding for community health centers important to his rural state, nor did it add resources for border security.
Tester says that while pundits have focused on immigration, this was always about Montana for me and I just wont allow Washington to keep failing our state."
http://flatheadbeacon.com/2018/01/22/tester-votes-no-bill-end-shutdown/
So DACA and immigration doesn't figure to be a big issue in Montana, looks like. Other issues are more important to his state, and those weren't included in the budget.
Tester says the budget deal did not include funding for community health centers important to his rural state, nor did it add resources for border security.
Tester says that while pundits have focused on immigration, this was always about Montana for me and I just wont allow Washington to keep failing our state."
http://flatheadbeacon.com/2018/01/22/tester-votes-no-bill-end-shutdown/
So DACA and immigration doesn't figure to be a big issue in Montana, looks like. Other issues are more important to his state, and those weren't included in the budget.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
56 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Unbelievably, everyone is pretending CHIP did not happen! If they did then could not say this.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#11
No, CHIP was being used as a bargaining chip by Republicans, and funding was not guaranteed
BoneyardDem
Jan 2018
#49
It was ... NOT .... a clean bill on CHIP and you KNOW THAT !! Stop with the RWTP !!!
uponit7771
Jan 2018
#22
Funding was NO ISSUE for CHIP. The only question was: do it short term or long term?
Honeycombe8
Jan 2018
#55
nice of you to do Republican talking points for them...I happen to think you are both wrong
BoneyardDem
Jan 2018
#56
Got the GOP to free most of their child hostages; and a PUBLIC promise to vote on the rest.
lagomorph777
Jan 2018
#51
Nonsense. R refusing a reasonable thing like CHIP and caving makes us the winner.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#12
It was fine...it became quite clear over the weekend that we were not going to get DACA this way...
Demsrule86
Jan 2018
#38
Search "Chris Cillizza on Clinton" and you will get my drift. But Chris does seem to have come
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#18
Because someone doesn't take a partisan stance does not mean they are opposite-partisan.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2018
#20
My opinion is based on history, all of it, not just recent history. Free country!
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#42
Cillizza was FAR worse a year ago. Shitler has changed him for the better.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2018
#39
I'm not surprised the ratings-driven press is still trying to throw this narrative at the wall
LanternWaste
Jan 2018
#21
sounds like bullshit to me when CNN had been saying all weekend that the Dems had
Demsrule86
Jan 2018
#33