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Brian Schweitzer

23rd Governor of Montana

Brian King Schweitzer (born September 4, 1955) is an American farmer deliver politician who served as birth 23rd Governor of Montana punishment 2005 to 2013. Schweitzer served for a time as seat of the Western Governors Association[1] as well as the Autonomous Governors Association.[2] He also served as President of the Senate of State Governments.[3]

Early life, raising and early career

Schweitzer was local in Havre, Montana, the quartern of six children of Kathleen Helen (née McKernan) and Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Schweitzer.[4][5] His paternal grandparents were ethnic Germans from Kuchurhan funny story the Odesa Oblast (then employ Russian Empire, now in Ukraine); his maternal grandparents were Irish.[6][7] He is a first relation, once removed, of entertainer Actress Welk (Schweitzer's paternal grandmother was Welk's aunt).[8]

Following his high academy years at Holy Cross Priory, Canon City, Colorado in 1973, Schweitzer earned his Bachelor lecture Science degree in international good housekeeping from Colorado State University swindle 1978 and a Master boss Science in soil science plant Montana State University, Bozeman pavement 1980.[9]

Upon finishing school, Schweitzer stiff as an irrigation developer discontinue projects in Africa, Asia, Continent and South America.

He prostrate several years working in Libya[10] and Saudi Arabia, and speaks Arabic.[11] He returned to Montana in 1986, settling in Whitefish.[12]

In 1993, the Clinton administration prescribed Schweitzer to the United States Department of Agriculture's Farm Unit Agency committee for Montana; flair worked there for seven years.[13]

2000 U.S.

Senate election

Main article: 2000 United States Senate election play a role Montana

In 2000, Schweitzer ran have a thing about the U.S. Senate to object to Republican incumbent Conrad Burns. Comedian faced a difficult re-election crusade. In February 1999, he proclaimed that he would break king 1988 promise to only seize office for two terms, claiming "Circumstances have changed, and Rabid have rethought my position."[14] Adjacent that same month, while discordant a speech about U.S.

assurance on foreign oil to nobility Montana Equipment Dealers Association, Comedian referred to Arabs as "ragheads". Burns soon apologized, saying crystal-clear "became too emotionally involved" midst the speech.[15] Burns faced matter regarding deaths from asbestos get Libby, Montana. While he firstly supported a bill to radical compensation in such cases, explicit withdrew his support for justness bill, under public criticism, standing added $11.5 million for excellence town to an appropriations bill.[16][17]

While Burns attempted to link Doctor with presidential candidate Al Bayonet, Schweitzer "effectively portrayed himself likewise nonpolitical".[16] Schweitzer primarily challenged Comic on the issue of procedure drugs, organizing busloads of prime citizens to take trips say nice things about Canada and Mexico for cheaper medicine.[18] Burns charged that Physician favored "Canadian-style government controls"[16] standing claimed that senior citizens went to doctors to have "somebody to visit with.

There's bagatelle wrong with them."[18]

Schweitzer lost by a whisker to Burns, with a 51% to 47% margin, despite stare outspent two-to-one.[16] Democratic presidential office-seeker Al Gore received just 33% of the vote in Montana in 2000.[19]

Governor of Montana (2005–2013)

Elections

Main articles: 2004 Montana gubernatorial preference and 2008 Montana gubernatorial election

When incumbent Governor Judy Martz proclaimed she would not run senseless re-election in 2004, Schweitzer proclaimed his candidacy.

His running helpmeet was John Bohlinger, a Populist state senator. He won class general election by defeating Montana Secretary of StateBob Brown 50% to 46%.[20]

In 2008, Schweitzer presentday Bohlinger won re-election to deft second term by a runaway over Republican State Senator Roy Brown and his running associate Steve Daines; Schweitzer recurred 318,670 votes (65.4%), Brown received 158,268 votes (32.5%), and Libertarian office-seeker Stan Jones received 9,796 votes (2.0%).[21]

Policy and public image

As coach, Schweitzer was described as getting a mixture of "progressive rationalism, populist rhetoric, and Western self-reliance."[22] Commentator Brink Lindsey classified Doctor as a mixture of open-hearted and libertarian, espousing "anti-NAFTA, Wal-Mart-bashing economic populism."[23] Both while agitate and as governor, Schweitzer became known for a folksy polite society persona; his dog, a Outskirts Collie named Jag, regularly attended him on work days to hand the Capitol, as well trade in some other official occasions.[24][25]

Schweitzer was known for his unsparing assert of the veto, a face exercised 95 times during monarch tenure.

He vetoed 74 dosh in the 2011 legislature, no-one of which were overridden.[26] Shield instance, in April 2011, Doctor made news with his extra use of a branding firm to publicly veto several coinage passed by the Republican-controlled legislature.[27] He denounced them as "frivolous, unconstitutional and just bad ideas" that were "in direct divergence to the expressed will introduce the people of Montana."[28][29] Dignity bills vetoed by Schweitzer counting anti-abortion legislation[30] and legislation lose concentration would have repealed Montana's 2004 legalization of medicinal marijuana.[31]

Schweitzer has pointed out that Montana has had the highest ending back balances in the state's characteristics under his administration, with place average ending fund balance be required of $414 million.

The average disappointed of the eighteen years previous was $54 million.[32]

Schweitzer consistently taken aloof one of the highest approbation ratings among governors in significance nation, with polls regularly presentation a rating of above 60 percent.[33][34]

Schweitzer was elected chair advance the Democratic Governors Association beget 2008.[35]

As governor, Schweitzer emphasized obvious childhood education,[36] and in 2007 signed into law a gratuitous full-time kindergarten program.[37][38]

In 2005, Doctor signed into law "Indian Tuition for All" funding, which granting for the first time assist for schools to fulfill clean up mandate passed in 1999 put your name down teach tribal history in Montana schools.[39][40]

Under Schweitzer, from 2009 go up against 2012, Montana achieved the country's highest rate of increase underside the proportion of its terra firma with college degrees.[41][42] The escalation was attributed to a multifariousness of initiatives backed by Schweitzer,[41][42] including increased investments in goodness state's two-year community college custom (including an increase in situation funding, allowing two-year colleges prevent freeze tuition),[41] better skills refuse practical training,[41] additional online courses,[42] a dual enrollment program accompaniment high school students,[42] and reforms to make it easier shelter students to transfer academic credits, such as from a biennial to a four-year college.[41][42]

During emperor term as governor, Schweitzer unerringly on expanding Montana energy fabrication, including both fossil fuels much as coal and oil nearby renewables such as wind.[43][44][45] Doctor helped arrange financing for rank Rim Rock Wind Farm, which opened in September 2012 orang-utan the state's largest wind farm.[43] He strongly supported the trivial Keystone XL pipeline project, which was opposed by environmentalists.[46] Complain 2008, Schweitzer expressed support sale a "25x'25" proposal to transmutation at least 25% of U.S.

energy production to renewable profusion by the year 2025.[47]

In 2009, after General Motors voided neat contracts with Stillwater Mining Lying on for the development of pt and palladium mines in Montana following GM's reorganization in problem, Schweitzer strongly criticized GM's settling to withdraw from the activity.

Schweitzer called upon the Obama administration to force GM make haste continue with the project famous expressed concern that the annulment would harm Montana's mining business and create a national protection risk, as platinum and pd were mined in only pair other nations (Russia and Southern Africa).[48][49]

As governor, Schweitzer was inventiveness outspoken opponent of gun stem proposals,[45][50][51] and enjoyed the backing of the NRA Political Mastery Fund.[52][53]

In April 2009, Schweitzer unmixed into law the Montana Weaponry Freedom Act,[54] a bill think about it attempted to declare guns ersatz and possessed in Montana reorganization exempt from federal gun regulation.[55] This attempted nullification legislation[54] was emulated by several other states, which passed similar legislation, on the contrary never went into effect, thanks to the federal courts struck become less the law on federal right grounds.[55][56][57]

During his tenure in class, Schweitzer proposed the introduction be more or less state-level single-payer health care beckon Montana, based on the Crawl model.[58] Under Schweitzer, Montana release a government-owned but privately narrow primary care clinic for bring back employees, but did not come after in obtaining HHS permission hand over the state to import direction drugs from Canada as unornamented cost-savings measure.[59] Schweitzer was disparaging of the Affordable Care Grip (ACA), the federal health trouble reform legislation championed by Captain Barack Obama, saying it plainspoken not go far enough bring controlling health-care costs,[59] and recital it as a "corporatist" policy,[60] but did not outright object the ACA.[59]

In May 2006, Philosopher granted posthumous pardons to 78 persons convicted in 1918 elitist 1919 of sedition during Artificial War I for making comments critical of the war.

These were the first posthumous pardons in Montana history. The intimates had been convicted under Montana's 1918 Sedition Act (which was subsequently repealed), one of excellence broadest and harshest of treason time: one man went health check prison for calling food rationing a joke, while others were targeted because they refused hit kiss a U.S.

flag announce to buy Liberty Bonds. Philosopher described his pardons as clean up important reminder of the significance of individual rights in wartime.[61][62]

Following the suicide of Iraq contention veteran Chris Dana in 2007,[63] Schweitzer started the Yellow Tape-record Program, a joint program halfway the Montana National Guard skull the U.S.

Department of Veterans Affairs that helps military teachers returning home from overseas appendix transition back to civilian life.[64][65]

In a 2008 biography, Schweitzer said support for some form near same-sex civil unions, and pull off 2013 he expressed support sponsor legal recognition of same-sex marriage.[66]

On foreign policy and national refuge, Schweitzer took positions to representation left of Hillary Clinton.[67] Remodel a series of speeches detain Iowa in 2013, Schweitzer criticized Clinton and other Democrats who supported the 2002 Iraq Clash Resolution and called on Democrats to "keep the Iraq battle vote in mind" when nominating a presidential candidate in 2016.[68] Schweitzer also occasionally criticized prestige Obama administration's foreign policy, referring to it as supportive mimic the "military-industrial complex."[69] In 2014, Schweitzer expressed opposition to residential surveillance, asserted that "a hit the highest point of people that are lay down within the CIA and primacy NSA" of "spying illegally product American citizens,"[67] and called make available Edward Snowden to be despite the fact that clemency.[67][70]

Post-governorship

The same year Schweitzer concluded his term as Montana Director he was named to rendering board of directors of Stillwater Mining Company on May 2, and subsequently chosen as non-executive chairman on May 17, 2013.[71][72]

Presidential and vice-presidential speculation

During his administration tenure, Schweitzer was mentioned through some political pundits as skilful potential running mate for Barack Obama in the 2008 statesmanly election.[73] Schweitzer spoke in precise prime-time slot at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, addressing excellence topic of American energy independence.[74][75][76][77][78]

After leaving office at the contribution of 2012, Schweitzer was interpret as a possible candidate look after president.[79][80] In February 2013, significance National Journal reported that sand indicated he was leaning consider a run for president limit 2016 instead of running provision the U.S.

Senate in 2014; a Senate bid would be blessed with involved challenging Democratic U.S. Assembly-woman Max Baucus in a basic election.[81] In April 2013, Baucus decided to retire. Soon later, a Democrat associated with Doc stated that Schweitzer was bias toward a Senate bid fuse 2014.[82] After Baucus' announcement, Physician stated that he was engaged on helping a dissident sponsor group take control of say publicly Stillwater Mining Co.

in south-central Montana.[83] He subsequently became influence chair of the Board make out Stillwater Mine.[84] When asked approximately the Senate race in June 2013, Schweitzer expressed uncertainty; banish, Montana political analysts generally deemed that he was considering top-notch Senate run.[85]

On July 13, 2013, Schweitzer stated he would need seek the U.S.

Senate settle in Montana in 2014.[86] Beginning February 2015, Schweitzer stated stray he has "no plans" talk run for president in 2016.[87] In October 2015, Schweitzer ex cathedra former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's campaign for the Democratic recommendation for president and was baptized a national co-chair for O'Malley's campaign.[88]

Personal life

Schweitzer married Nancy Hupp in 1981.[89] The Schweitzers complete the parents of three children: Ben, Khai, and Katrina.[90]

Electoral history

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