By Denise Ross

It wasn’t just John Thune on hand at the T. Boone Pickens presentation in Rapid City Wednesday afternoon. I recognized a few local leaders and politicians, too.

But first, there were these two guys in their matching T-shirts.

The front of the shirts said, “The one thing Obama and McCain have in common.” The part of the back that you can’t see in this photo gives the web address for Black Hills Energy Solutions. (While there’s lots of information about energy conservation and alternative energy, their site doesn’t make it entirely clear what they do.)

Meanwhile, there’s Dem about town Bill Walsh, right, in his signature cowboy hat talking to state Sen. Tom Katus, D-Rapid City, and my old colleague Kevin Woster.

Others who were there but not photographed include scamp about town and infrequent Hoghouse Blog contributor Don Frankenfeld, former state Rep. John Teupel, R-Spearfish, Dem legislative candidate from Rapid City Dennis Finch and Dave Snyder, exec director emeritus of the Homestake underground science lab.

I didn’t recognize these folks in the crowd, but in his story on the event Woster quotes Wall Drug President Ted Hustead and Rosebud tribal councilman Robert Moore.

More on the nuts and bolts of Pickens’ presentation coming in the morning. (Read some of it in Woster’s story.)

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