[ [link removed] ]MONTANANS FOR TESTER
   
   
   Have I ever told you about my grandparents,
   John?
   Here’s a photo of them, Arnfred and Christine, on their wedding day in
   1905. That was seven years before they picked out a flat piece of
   grassland just outside Big Sandy to build their homestead.
       [ [link removed] ]Black and white photo of Jon's grandparents, Fred and Christine
   That patch of loamy, alkaline clay-soil is the same one where I grew up;
   and where Sharla and I raised our kids and still farm the land.
   Things weren’t easy for Fred and Christine. They suffered devastating
   windstorms, bitter cold, shooting fire, poisonous snakes—pretty much
   everything but locusts. And in the late teens, the drought hit, wiping out
   the farm entirely. My grandparents were forced to leave.
   But they were determined to return to their homestead. They saved up
   enough to start all over again on the same little piece of land. They had
   a couple hundred acres to their name, a newly-built barn, a windmill,
   their healthy son and daughters (including newborn Helen, my mom), strong
   muscles, and the powerful work ethic that built rural America.
   I first ran for office to make sure our government was serving hardworking
   Americans like my grandparents a hundred years ago. Folks like our
   teachers, farmers, and construction workers deserve a government that
   works for them.
   But too many Washington politicians are deep in the pockets of right-wing
   special interests. They promise one thing when the camera is rolling, then
   make secret backroom deals with their wealthy megadonors.
   That’s not how I operate, and it’s why we’re running this campaign
   differently. I’m counting on grassroots folks like you chipping in what
   you can, when you can, to build a team strong enough to take on the
   outside groups and attacks.
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   Thanks for your support. Together, we can keep me in Washington fighting
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   —Jon
   As a third-generation Montanan and the U.S. Senate’s only working dirt
     farmer, Jon Tester is committed to protecting the Montana way of life.
    In the Senate, Jon takes his cues from the rural communities, veterans,
   and working families that elected him—not special interests or super PACs.
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