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Playboy Interview: Former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer

"The hours I spent with Schweitzer–in between blizzards–confirmed his standing as a unique political figure. Whether at the Seven Gables café, his spacious home on Georgetown Lake or kicking back with a beer in a Philipsburg tavern, Schweitzer seemed to know pretty much every customer, waiter, store owner and passerby he saw. But as our conversations revealed, behind the folksy ‘regular guy’ persona is a passionate policy wonk. He rises at 4:30 every morning to vacuum up the news; he will talk in sometimes numbing detail about his ideas on health care and education. He is a fiercely populist politician who combines a skeptical view of orthodox big-government liberalism with an old-fashioned belief that government can level the playing field for people who grew up the way he did."

By Jeff Greenfield

Full interview: http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-interview-brian-schweitzer

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