U.S. Congressional Candidate Steve Daines today began the first leg of a three-day, nine county tour through Southeastern Montana – accomplishing his goal to visit all 56 Montana counties during the campaign.

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann announced her support for Bozeman businessman Steve Daines’ campaign for the U.S. Congress, praising his conservative fiscal sensibilities, constitutional values and strong work ethic.

U.S. Congressional Candidate Steve Daines offered praise and support for legislation introduced yesterday by Senator Marcio Rubio (FL) and Congressman Denny Rehberg (MT-al) entitled the Returned Exclusively For Unpaid National Debt (REFUND) Act.

U.S. Congressional candidate Steve Daines raised nearly $200,000 in the first full quarter of his campaign, and more than $420,000 since last November, an impressive total for the Bozeman businessman who is unopposed in the GOP primary. The campaign reported having over $330,000 cash on hand as of March 31, 2011.

It was election night 2006, and as the results came in, one U.S. Senate seat after another turned from red to blue. And finally, during the early morning hours of November 8th, the final wall was breached. Montana’s junior Senator, Republican Conrad Burns was 3,562 votes short of defeating his Democrat opponent, Jon Tester. It was the loss of this Senate seat in Montana that was the deciding seat which handed the Senate Majority Leader gavel over to Harry Reid with a 51/49 margin in the U.S. Senate. Out of 406,505 votes cast, the race was decided by a mere 3,562 votes – the closest Senate race in the country. Three thousand five hundred and sixty two votes in Montana decided the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.