Suzanimal
06-15-2014, 05:33 AM
2016 is shaping up to be a very interesting election.
A Democratic 2016 hopeful campaigns in an unlikely place: Romney’s donor summit
PARK CITY, Utah — For a Democrat toying with waging a presidential primary challenge against Hillary Rodham Clinton from the populist left, the exclusive confab of chief executives and Republican donors hosted by Mitt Romney is a most unlikely place to campaign.
But that’s precisely what Brian Schweitzer did this week.
The former Montana governor, MSNBC contributor and 2016 hopeful delivered a stem-winder of a speech to some 300 Republican elites assembled here in a theater-in-the-round setting at a luxury mountaintop resort.
Schweitzer’s remarks Friday afternoon were all over the map — from life lessons he learned as a boy leading his steer at 4-H club showings to his disagreements with the Affordable Care Act and the war in Iraq to sharp criticism of President Obama’s energy policy. And he said the one elected official with whom he agrees on some issues is Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-democratic-2016-hopeful-campaigns-in-an-unlikely-place-romneys-donor-summit/2014/06/14/64b07230-f3ec-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html?tid=hpModule_f8335a3c-868c-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z10
A Democratic 2016 hopeful campaigns in an unlikely place: Romney’s donor summit
PARK CITY, Utah — For a Democrat toying with waging a presidential primary challenge against Hillary Rodham Clinton from the populist left, the exclusive confab of chief executives and Republican donors hosted by Mitt Romney is a most unlikely place to campaign.
But that’s precisely what Brian Schweitzer did this week.
The former Montana governor, MSNBC contributor and 2016 hopeful delivered a stem-winder of a speech to some 300 Republican elites assembled here in a theater-in-the-round setting at a luxury mountaintop resort.
Schweitzer’s remarks Friday afternoon were all over the map — from life lessons he learned as a boy leading his steer at 4-H club showings to his disagreements with the Affordable Care Act and the war in Iraq to sharp criticism of President Obama’s energy policy. And he said the one elected official with whom he agrees on some issues is Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-democratic-2016-hopeful-campaigns-in-an-unlikely-place-romneys-donor-summit/2014/06/14/64b07230-f3ec-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html?tid=hpModule_f8335a3c-868c-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z10