His little excursion to Canada with Seniors to buy medicine is a fine example.
Candidate Hits Road With Health-Costs Crusade
They were among 35 retired people from Montana, all on Medicare and all with out-of-pocket pharmaceutical bills of well over $1,000 a year, who took a daylong bus trip today to buy medicine in this ski-resort town across the United States border with Canada. Typically in Canada, having a prescription filled costs a third to a half of what it costs in the United States.
The trip was organized by Brian Schweitzer, the Democratic candidate for the Senate from Montana, who has made the high cost of drugs to uninsured retirees in the United States the centerpiece of his uphill campaign to unseat the Republican incumbent, Conrad Burns.
''This is about embarrassing Congress,'' Mr. Schweitzer told the group, ''so your pharmacist can get drugs for the same price as pharmacists around the world.''
If he is elected, Mr. Schweitzer promises, he will fight to repeal the law that prohibits prescription medicine from being imported into the United States, and he will work for Medicare coverage of drugs....more
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/15/us/candidate-hits-road-with-health-costs-crusade.html
And his energy policy looks fantastic. Finally a Democrat willing to DO something.
Promotes clean coal in Montana. (Jun 2008)
America should cut energy consumption and produce biofuels. (Jun 2008)
We can reduce our carbon footprint and also consume energy. (Jun 2008)
Develop renewable energy: ethanol, wind and hydrogen. (Nov 2004)
Supports spending resources to stop Global Warming. (Sep 2000)
Letter to Congress supporting renewable energy tax credit. (Nov 2011)
Set goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025. (Jan 2007)
http://www.ontheissues.org/Brian_Schweitzer.htm#Energy_+_OilThis guy is super (so far).
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