Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer only a few days after CBS’s 60 Minutes dubbed him “half Renaissance man, half rodeo cowboy”. The governor came to Charlottesville in an appearance sponsored by the UVA Center for Politics to talk about biodiesel and alternative energy. I liked him immediately.
He is a Democratic Governor in a Red state with less than one million residents, and with a Republican Lt. Governor. He is a rancher and an agricultural scientist. He has built roads in Africa and irrigated croplands in Saudi Arabia. He may be “the next best hope of the Democratic Party“, and now he has done something else great.