and that would cost $$, just not make the papers. The hunt saved $$ and the results same, some were critters were gonna be culled one way or the other.
Yeah, he is a VERY bright and hard working gent. Soil scientist by training. Worked in Arabia for a time. Wants very much for the US to address fact that we are not secure if our energy needs are not secure. In that vein, he works to address needs now AND plan for doing it even better in the future.
Wind power getting BIG push now. Coal to diesel getting a push. Folks, coal isn't the best long term answer, but it is a good way to keep the tractors and trucks it takes to keep food coming running to a market near you while we work on long term solutions.
The man has an open door policy at the Capital. He LISTENS. He has empathy. He knows what life is like outside the halls of government. He knows government works only when we get past party bickering just for the sake of posturing.
Here's a tidbit from 1999 regarding his run for Senate against Burns:
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.PrintableArticle?article_id=5121 Brian Schweitzer may be a farmer, but he is no country bumpkin. When the media-savvy 43-year-old Montanan announced his candidacy for the United States Senate, he did so from a podium at the Black Star Brewery. With him were several hundred pounds of premium Montana barley.
He touted the popular Whitefish brew as a symbol of value-added agriculture. The large crowd, many merely curious about this Democratic novice in a Republican stronghold, nodded enthusiastic approval, even though it was 10 a.m. and no beer flowed.
The next week, Schweitzer greeted farmers in Arabic at a Great Falls grain elevator, blasting incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns for referring to Arabs as "ragheads." Soon after Burns' comment made the newspapers last winter, Pakistan cancelled a huge U.S. wheat shipment and placed an order with Australia instead, Schweitzer said. "Sen. Burns, stop insulting my customers!" he demanded, noting that Egypt is America's biggest wheat customer.
Was Pakistan's cancelled wheat order a coincidence? Hard to say, Schweitzer said, and that's not the point anyway. "If your grocery store manager calls you names, you'll soon be shopping elsewhere, won't you?" he said.
That sorta gives you a feel for how the guy communicates. ;)
Do a bit of sniffing around. Schweitzer has much to teach other DEMS. Education plus experience applied to the problems of real people. Communicate! Remember the populist roots of the Democratic Party and draw strength from that. Government needs to look for win/win solutions and lose the hostile partisan environment which has come to overshadow addressing issues.
He was here a few weeks ago. This is a very stubborn GOP dominated county. He made people nod in agreement.
And he has a really swell dog who actually LIKES his human partner, unlike a certain photo-op doggie we've seen a lot of for the past 5 years.
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