Brian Schweitzer is really a class act, check out this photo

http://democraticgovernors.org/news/102/taste-of-america-2005

I know he can't really run in 2008 but I sure wish he could.

But he could have worn slacks to this event.

Real unflattering photo of Richardson, though....

lol

as part of "So What Else is News?"'s special "Howard Dean's First 100 Days" broadcast. Gov. Schweitzer really impressed me.

all hat and all cattle.

I've followed him and he's a character. Good on policy and terific and innovativei on getting the message across with great symbols.

BTW, I wonder if Richardson was explaining why he told election fraud activists that they'd have to pay $1.5 million for a recoiunt in NM. What a tool. Everything Sen Byrd said about him is true.

about security at the NM research site when he was Scty of Energy. It bothered me at the time because Byrd was so harsh:

Richardson, whose department oversees nuclear labs, angered lawmakers
last week by not appearing at another Senate hearing, saying he wanted
to wait until he had more information.

Byrd said Richardson had shown arrogance by refusing to appear before
the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, and that the panel should
have subpoenaed the Energy Secretary.

Byrd said he was not calling for Richardson's resignation at this
point but that some members of Congress no longer had any faith in
him. ``You have really thrown away a treasure, that treasure being the
confidence of the Congress,'' Byrd said.

When "the good guys" askied for a recount in NM based on some real indications that things had gone way wrong, Richardson screwed them with the $1.5 million price tag. Enough for me to say, bouy bouy.

When Gov. Brian Schweitzer dresses for business, he grabs a pair of blue jeans.

The dress-down governor doesn't have much use for three-piece business attire, except when formalities call for it. With a nice shirt, bolo tie, blue jeans, sports jacket and "relatively clean" cowboy boots, he's ready to run a state.
Why the casual wear? "It's the Montana I grew up in," he answered during an interview.

That Montana, he explained, was a state where people judge you by the quality of your character, not the quality of your clothes. He doesn't think it has changed much.

"The richest people in Montana drive pickups that are three years old," he said. "They don't drive BMWs. They don't wear their wealth on their sleeve, or drive it, or live in it."

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2005/05/22/news/01schweitzer.txt

http://www.salon.com/news/lotp/2005/04/19/montana_governor/

(Here's just an excerpt)

The future is wearing a turquoise bolo tie wrapped around the open collar of a blue-and-white-striped button-down dress shirt. And if that doesn't sound quite right, then you haven't considered the mismatched gray suit coat or the blue jeans and boots down below. Meet Brian Schweitzer, the soil sciences major who grew up to be the governor of Montana -- and may be the next best hope of the Democratic Party.

On Nov. 2, George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Montana by 20 percentage points. On the same day, Montana voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage -- and elected as their governor a populist, pro-choice Democrat. Are Montana voters as schizophrenic as the governor's fashion sense, or is Brian Schweitzer just that good?

A lot of folks say it's the latter. Everyone from the Washington Monthly to the American Spectator has taken note of the rancher from Whitefish, Mont., and what the Wall Street Journal called his "well-spoken, gun-owning, dog-loving, native-ritual-doing, shot-of-whiskey-drinking true-west style." Democrats hungry for hope in the dark days after 2004 find themselves wondering whether another little-known governor from a small red state can somehow help them find their way back to the White House.

Ask Schweitzer about 2008, and he ticks off the names of Democratic governors who've proved they can appeal to red-state voters. What about him? "You know, all these people are saying, 'To be governor of Montana, he must have it figured out,'" Schweitzer says. "I'm telling you, I've broken more colts than there are days that I've been in office. I'm just a regular guy, getting things done in Montana. I don't know if that works nationally, but I don't care."