When a race gets to be as heated as the one against Sen. Conrad Burns and Jon Tester, it's hard to see the candidate through the candidacy. So, photojournalist Mark Maher set out to document what a day in a life of a candidate for U.S. Senate looks like. Mark started early in the morning with Jon Tester on his farm near Big Sandy and traveled with Tester and his campaign to Great Falls for a meeting and a quick haircut. Click the still below to watch and listen as Jon Tester goes through a day in his campaign.
Editor's note: We also requested time to document the campaign trail of Sen. Conrad Burns but several inquiries to his campaign went unanswered.
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I know both of these guys...and I know them well. Conrad and I served 4 congressional sessions together; I have know John for ten years.
Conrad does NOT share Montana's values about preserving clean places to hunt, fish, and camp...he votes and works against legislation to do just that! I know, because in the House I sponsored and passed such legislation to protect our federal land base as habitat only to have Conrad kill it in the Senate.
He does NOT share our expectations about good wages and decent benefits for working stiffs...I watched him time and again vote against such legislation.
Conrad supports efforts to deminish the protections of Social Security and Medicare... how's that for a senator from a state with a very large percentage of elderly citizens?
Look, Conrad and I are friends but this is about Montana's future...I know , know for a certainty, that John Tester would be better for Montana's tomorrows.