Brian Schweitzer: Rancher, Governor, Democrat

From the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana):

When Gov. Brian Schweitzer dresses for business, he grabs a pair of blue jeans.

The dress-down governor doesn't have much use for three-piece business attire, except when formalities call for it. With a nice shirt, bolo tie, blue jeans, sports jacket and "relatively clean" cowboy boots, he's ready to run a state.
Why the casual wear? "It's the Montana I grew up in," he answered during an interview.

That Montana, he explained, was a state where people judge you by the quality of your character, not the quality of your clothes. He doesn't think it has changed much.

"The richest people in Montana drive pickups that are three years old," he said. "They don't drive BMWs. They don't wear their wealth on their sleeve, or drive it, or live in it."

Schweitzer certainly wasn't born wealthy. His parents were ranchers from the Hi-Line who never graduated from high school because there were no nearby high schools from which to graduate. He is a self-made businessman, a fact he regularly touted in his campaign for office.

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