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Playboy Interview: Brian Schweitzer [View all]
From the moment he entered the Montana governor’s office in 2005, Brian Schweitzermade it clear he was going to be a very different kind of politician. In place of a tailored
suit and repp tie, he wore jeans and a bolo tie. One of his frequent companions in his
inner sanctum was Jag, his border collie. When he vetoed bills sent to him by the
Republican legislature, he used a branding iron. Whether it was his branding iron or his
brand of Democratic politics—he’s a tax-cutting, pro-gun social liberal—Schweitzer was
reelected in 2008 by a two-to-one landslide and remained one of the most polarizing
governors in the nation throughout his eight years in office. That same year he all but
tore the roof off the Democratic National Convention with a speech that had political
experts asking, “Could this be where a Schweitzer presidential journey begins?” It was
the most improbable of journeys for the descendant of German and Irish immigrants,
whose parents never finished high school and who had worked as an agronomist,
a soil scientist and a rancher before his first run for political office at the age of 45.
http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-interview-brian-schweitzer
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