US elections: a mighty wind
Another thing the McNerney campaign has going for it is its heroic shot of the candidate in front of the turbines that he used to work on and that he hopes to make central to an alt-energy paradise in the district. See it here.
Windmills seem to be the requisite pose for politicos this year. See also Washington senator Maria Cantwell (in a tight race), Senator Menedez from New Jersey (ditto), Senator Ken Salazar from Colorado (presumably he's pointing to the future in this picture. He's not running this year.), Rep Tom Udall of New Mexico (last photo in slow-loading series. He's also pointing authoritatively and wearing a cowboy hat), and a rather artsy one from Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer. I could go on and on, I really could.
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson mixes it up with solar panels (Richardson, by the way, is as safe as houses and might even run for president in 2008).
Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota has a slightly surreal series of alt-energy shovel shots, wherein he and some backup bureaucrats break ground on green projects in jaunty formation, including a windfarm, an ethanol plant, and two biodiesel plants (Scroll through his series to find them) He's the state's only representative, so I guess all the shoveling falls to him.
