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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-04-06 11:18 AM
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Do you think Governor Schweitzer (MT) should run for President in 08?
If so, please sign this, and keep this kicked! Thanks!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/DraftSchweitzer2008/

Here are some snippets about him, from wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Schweitzer

Schweitzer is currently one of the most popular governors in the nation, with polls showing an approval rating of around 70 percent. He is also the Recruitment Chair for the Democratic Governors Association for 2006-2007.

Schweitzer earned his Bachelor of Science degree in international agronomy from Colorado State University in 1978 and a Master of Science in soil science from Montana State University in 1980. Upon finishing school, he worked as an irrigation developer on projects in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, spending much of his time in Saudi Arabia before returning to Montana in 1986 to launch a ranching and irrigation business in Whitefish.

Bill Clinton appointed Schweitzer to the United States Department of Agriculture as a member of the Montana USDA Farm Service Agency committee, where he worked for seven years. While working for the USDA, he was appointed to the Montana Rural Development Board (1996), and the National Drought Task Force (1999).

In March 2005, Schweitzer sparked controversy by suggesting that Montana's National Guard troops be recalled from service in Iraq to assist firefighting during Montana's wildfire season.

On May 3, 2006, Schweitzer granted posthumous pardons to forty persons convicted of sedition during World War I for making comments that were critical of the war. These were the first posthumous pardons in Montana history, but the convictions had become notorious in recent years because Montana's sedition law had been one of the broadest and harshest of its time: one man went to prison for calling food rationing "a joke," while others were targeted because they refused to physically kiss a U.S. flag or to buy Liberty Bonds. At a public ceremony attended by family members of the pardon recipients, Schweitzer said "n times when our country is pushed to our limits, those are the times when it is most important to remember individual rights."
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-04-06 11:19 AM
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1. No. We have too many things to fix in Montana after all the GOP years
The nation can have Brian later ;)
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