Monday, February 1, 2010

PORK BUSTERS HALL OF SHAME WINNER

Everybody on this blog has been commenting on the large wasted expenditure by our local school board to make a little problem like Mahon go away. What I find interesting is that we don’t get that much response when we post about much larger wastes in Washington, DC. Remember a guy named Jon Tester that ran for Senate on the pledge of ending “shady” relationships and chastised Senator Burns as being the “king of Pork”? (Burns did only have a 8.33% rating on the website PorkBusters) Tester also used the sound bite of “NO to Earmarks” and “No to wasteful Pork” continually throughout his campaign. He made allot of promises and I wonder just how he is doing in “reforming” that runaway spending that bothered him so during the campaign. Here he is during the Democrat National Convention September 2, 2008


Suprisingly, Tester made the “PorkBusters Hall of Shame himself with a rating of 16.66%. To put that in perspective he is performing twice as well as Senator Baucus. http://porkbusters.org/scorecard.php


I am sadly disappointed that we took the guy at his word to be the man to make changes in the way the government operates. It is bad enough that the taxpayers are paying him a salary of over $174,000 per year but I was astonished to learn that his staff payroll runs into the millions. Sadly, he is not the only one in the Senate with such an outlandish budget.

Senator Tester’s staff salarys
• Total Salary Expenditures
o 04/01/2009 - 09/30/2009   $1,236,752
o 10/01/2008 - 03/31/2009   $972,556
o Fiscal Year: 2009   $2,209,308

o 04/01/2008 - 09/30/2008   $1,089,757
o 10/01/2007 - 03/31/2008   $978,609
o Fiscal Year: 2008 $2,068,366

Now on to the Earmarks requested by Senator “No EarMarks Ever” Tester
Sen. Jon Tester ( -Montana) In Office - Earmarks Requested
Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2009 Number Cost
Solo Earmarks 12 $3,742,070
With Other Members 144 $303,965,010
All Sponsored Earmarks 156 $307,707,080
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Amazing, simply amazing.  Check it out http://www.legistorm.com/earmarks/details/member/818/Sen_Jon_Tester.html
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5 comments:

  1. KateFebruary 02, 2010 6:25 AM

    It is not so shocking to me. Liberal Dems get elected by running as conservatives at least when it comes to spending.

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  2. No OneFebruary 02, 2010 4:47 PM

    If we have all this money to spend on public works projects, lets build the 4 lane Hwy #2.

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  3. JimboFebruary 03, 2010 1:55 PM

    Tester is kind of like Obama. You can't find a soul that admits voting for him

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  4. SupermanFebruary 03, 2010 11:42 PM

    I voted for him. I haven't been impressed. A guy like that is not worth $174,000 a year plus the fact that he said he was going to clean things up in that Senate office and now he is worse then Burns

    Plus I believed his lies about Burns and then Burns was found not to be connected to that bad man abromkoff afterall. You can't believe nothing a politician tells you to get himself elected. It is apparent to me that Tester just wanted that huge paycheck and the rest was all political bull

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  5. JimboFebruary 04, 2010 8:41 AM

    I am really suprised there are not more comments on this story, He talked a good talk and then failed to deliver

    And I am not just saying that because I didn't vote for him. I got sucked into that "voting to keep the senority for Montana message" A mistake I won't make again with Baucus.

    I notice no one has defended poor misguided Tester here.

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