{"id":70922,"date":"2020-09-19T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meet-the-only-senator-with-a-full-time-job-outside-politics\/"},"modified":"2020-09-19T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T13:20:13","slug":"meet-the-only-senator-with-a-full-time-job-outside-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-only-senator-with-a-full-time-job-outside-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the only senator with a full-time job outside politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Meet the only senator with a full-time job outside politics<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or TV series visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n                        Jon Tester is the only senator who manages a full-time job outside of the Senate. A third-generation farmer on his family farm outside of Big Sandy, Mont., Tester grew up on the farm and is acutely aware of its rhythms, its demands, even its dangers (he lost the middle three fingers on his left hand in a meat-grinder accident when he was 9.) In his new book, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grounded-Senators-Lessons-Winning-America-ebook\/dp\/B082T3J71N\/?tag=nypost-20\">Grounded: A Senator\u2019s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America<\/a>\u201d (Ecco, out now), the three-term Democrat reflects on what that farm has taught him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say hard work, planning, and quite frankly, giving things time to take hold and grow. Farming and the Senate is like making tea \u2014 you have to let it steep for a bit,\u201d says Tester. \u201cIn agriculture, there is a time to plant and one to harvest, and if you don\u2019t hit those windows, it can cost you money. In the Senate, there are times to get things done, and if you miss the window, it might not come around again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16317413 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/grounded.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/grounded.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/grounded.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/grounded.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=292 292w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/grounded.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=584 584w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 292px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Campaigning as a Democrat in red Montana has reinforced the importance of old-fashioned effort and persuasion, and of knocking on all doors \u2014 not just the ones you think will already vote a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople in rural America value hard work and people coming to their doors. There are some out there that will boo and hiss, but for the most part, they\u2019re grateful. Your first obligation is to listen to what they\u2019re saying and then respond,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s a huge mistake to avoid a place because of a file that says it\u2019s Republican. If people think you care and that you understand their challenges, they\u2019ll vote for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yes, he thinks other senators would be well served by having jobs outside the Senate, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very lucky in that we make the schedule [of the farm] work. If you\u2019re an MD, that would be tough. I can push harvest a bit in one direction, and hope it works. It\u2019s tougher in other fields,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the citizen legislator model is a great model. In the old days, they didn\u2019t meet as long as we do now. If we had sideboards that required [the Senate] to get stuff done in a certain time, we could. The laws we make, I live \u2014 with my business.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/19\/meet-the-only-senator-with-a-full-time-job-outside-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Meet the only senator with a full-time job outside politics&#8221; If you want to watch Movies or TV series visit the Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com Jon Tester is the only senator who manages a full-time job outside of the Senate. A third-generation farmer on his family farm outside of Big Sandy, Mont., Tester grew up on the farm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/jon-tester-us-senate.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[71465,17209,71510,71511,71512,70289,71513],"class_list":["post-70922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-19-20","tag-books","tag-farms","tag-government","tag-montana","tag-senate","tag-senators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}