would you support Brian Schweitzer for VP?

[grasswire]

Take a look and keep in mind the current global crisis in water and food commodities:




Governor Brian Schweitzer... From Montana, for Montana.

Brian was born in Havre in 1955, the fourth of six children -- five sons and a daughter -- of Kay and Adam Schweitzer. Raised on his parent's registered cattle ranch in the Judith Basin, Brian is a third generation Montanan. His German and Irish grandparents immigrated to Montana near the turn of the century and homesteaded in Hill County, and they are buried there today.

Brian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in International Agronomy from Colorado State University, and later earned a Master of Science degree in Soil Science from Montana State University. Brian married Nancy Hupp, his college sweetheart, in 1981. Nancy was raised in Billings and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Botany from Montana State University.

A Montana farmer and rancher, Brian has been signing the front side of a paycheck for over 25 years. He has owned and operated Montana farms in Flathead, Sanders, Rosebud, and Judith Basin Counties. His business and agricultural experience is broad and deep, including extensive farming and ranching experience in Montana, and successful agricultural business projects on five continents.

After graduation from Montana State, Brian and Nancy began a career of irrigation development that took them to Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. He has built hundreds of miles of roads, poured thousands of yards of concrete, buried many miles of pipe, and built hundreds of structures, from houses to warehouses to distillation plants. During seven years in Saudi Arabia, Brian developed over 28,000 acres of irrigated cropland.

But when it was time to raise a family, Brian and Nancy returned home to Montana in 1986, and began building a ranching and irrigation business in Montana.

In 1993, Brian was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to serve on the Montana State USDA Farm Service Agency committee. He served for seven years with the FSA, and his three-person committee was responsible for the operation of 46 county offices, 300 employees and a budget of more than $300 million. He resigned in 1999 to run for U.S. Senate.

Brian has been active in developing and implementing national farm policy, and ensuring that the voice of local Montanans is heard. In 1995, he received an award from the Secretary of Agriculture for outreach efforts to Native Americans. In 1996, Brian was appointed to the Montana Rural Development Partnership Board. In 1999, he was appointed to the National Drought Task Force, a 16-member national board, to review policy and report to Congress an improved coordination response to drought emergencies nationwide.

Brian’s life experiences are broad and diverse. He has learned to fly his own plane, obtained a Montana Boiler’s license, has communicated in several languages and has a chemical applicator’s license.

On November 2, 2004 Brian was elected as Montana's first democratic governor since 1988. Brian Schweitzer became the 23rd Governor of the great state of Montana on January 3, 2005.

Brian and Nancy have three children, sons Ben and Khai and daughter Katrina.

[Neshanic]

1. Only if Michelle likes him. Then maybe.

[NoodleBoy]

2. In a second. But, he'd probably decline.

He likes being Governor apparently, and is on track for re-election.

If I remember right, he's keeping his powder dry until 2012 or 2014 to run for MT's house seat.

But I think he'd be a great VP or President.

[grasswire]

3. wouldn't he?

Apparently he's nobody's fool.

[Quixote1818]

4. He would be a very solid choice. He would help Obama's image among rural folk

If they saw Obama relating to someone like Brian, it would really help Obama in their eyes.

[saltpoint]

5. Yep. Sure would.

Hell, I'd even support his dog.

Schweitzer's a class act, very likely with a brilliant future on the national Democratic stage.

[RamboLiberal]

7. Same here - I really like the guy and his dog

And the dog is definitely smarter than Bush! One good looking family too.

[saltpoint]

8. Agree. I'm LOL on the dog smarter than Bush -- absolutely correct!

[John Q. Citizen]

6. No, because he's a one term Governor and we need him for a second term. He's

not exactly (how do i put this) suited to playing second fiddle.

And he wouldn't bring much to the ticket in terms of winning the GE.

he's a very smart politician. He's at around 70% approval rating in what was for 12 years a reliably Republican state.

[Hippo_Tron]

9. He doesn't bring anything substantial to the ticket

IMO unless Richardson has too much baggage he will get it. Richardson brings Hispanics and Obama needs that.