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|state= [[California]]

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|district= [[California's 11th congressional district|11th]]

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|party= [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]

| director = [[Marek Kanievska]]

|term_start = [[January 4]] [[2007]]

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| writer preceded= [[JulianRichard MitchellPombo]]

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| starring = [[Rupert Everett]]

|place of birth= [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]]

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}}'''''Another Country''''' is a play by [[Julian Mitchell]] loosely based upon the life of the spy [[Guy Burgess]], called Guy Bennett in the play, examining the effect that his homosexuality and his exposure to [[Marxism]] have on him and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[public school (England)|public school]] system. It is also a movie directed by [[Marek Kanievska]] and starring [[Rupert Everett]].

'''Gerald "Jerry" McNerney''' (born [[June 18]], [[1951]]) is an [[engineer]], [[energy]] specialist, and [[Politics of the United States|politician]] from the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]]. McNerney, a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], won election to the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] in the [[United States House elections, 2006|2006 House election]], defeating incumbent [[Richard Pombo]] in [[California's 11th congressional district]].

==Performance and Publication==

McNerney is an expert in wind engineering and [[renewable energy]] and holds a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in mathematics.<ref name="McNerney">{{cite web|author=Jerry McNerney|url=http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_41601.shtml|title=Biographical detail in op-ed: "Three-ring Pombo Cash Circus Comes to Stockton"|date=[[2006-09-02]]|publisher=YubaNet.com}}</ref>

==Biography==

The original [[1981]] production at the [[Greenwich Theatre]] in south-east [[London]] featured [[Rupert Everett]] as Guy. Upon transfer to the West End in March [[1982]], the production initially also featured [[Kenneth Branagh]] as Tommy Judd. [[Daniel Day-Lewis]] took over the role of Guy in late 1982 and was succeeded in the role by [[Colin Firth]] in early [[1983]], by which time [[James Newall]] was appearing as Tommy. The play won the [[Society of West End Theatre Awards]] honour as Play of the Year in [[1982]].

McNerney was born in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]]. He attended St. Joseph's Military Academy in [[Hays, Kansas]] and later the [[United States Military Academy]], but resigned in 1971 in [[opposition to the Vietnam War]]. He registered with the [[Conscription in the United States|draft board]], and transferred to the [[University of New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Record (Stockton)|The Record]]|date=[[2006-05-17]]|publisher=ONI Stockton, Inc.|author=Hank Shaw|url=http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/NEWS01/605170323/1031/SPECIALREPORTS16|title=Politics turns to war in Pombo's district}}</ref> He received a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and, in 1981, a Ph.D in mathematics from that university. He has been married for 29 years and has three grown children.<ref name="McNerney"/>

McNerney served several years as a contractor to [[Sandia National Laboratories]] on [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], working on national security programs. In 1985, he accepted a senior engineering position with U.S. Windpower (Kenetech), and in 1994 began working as an energy consultant for PG&E, FloWind, The Electric Power Research Institute, and other utility companies. McNerney is now the CEO of a start-up company that intends to manufacture [[wind turbine]]s.

In [[1984]], the play was adapted into a movie directed by [[Marek Kanievska]] and starring [[Rupert Everett]] as Guy along with Firth as Judd. Also starring are [[Michael Jenn]] (Barclay), [[Robert Addie]] (Delahay), [[Rupert Wainwright]] (Donald Devenish), [[Tristan Oliver]] (Fowler), [[Cary Elwes]] (James Harcourt), [[Piers Flint-Shipman]] (Menzies) and [[Anna Massey]] (Imogen Bennett). Also present in three scenes as an extra without any dialogue is [[Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer]], [[Diana, Princess of Wales]]'s younger brother.

His oldest son Michael volunteered to serve in the military soon after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].

==Summary==

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==Environmental work==

The setting is an [[1930s]] [[Eton College|Eton]]-esque public school, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, while Judd is a [[Marxist]].

His career in wind energy has contributed to saving the equivalent of approximately 30 million barrels of oil, or 8.3 million tons of carbon dioxide.<ref name="McNerney" />

==Congressional campaigns==

One day a teacher walks in on Martineau ([[Philip Dupuy]]) and a boy from another house having sex. Martineau subsequently kills himself because of the shame of having been found in an homosexual embrace, and chaos erupts as teachers and the senior students try their hardest to keep the scandal away from parents and the rest of the outside world. The gay scandal however gives the army-obsessed house captain Fowler, who dislikes both Bennett and Judd, a welcome reason to scheme against Bennett to keep him from becoming a "God" - a school name for the elite pupils of the school. Fortunately for Fowler, he is able to intercept a love letter from Bennett to James Harcourt. Bennett agrees to be punished so as not to compromise Harcourt. (On an earlier occasion he had simply blackmailed the other Gods for their own "experiences" with him.)

===2004===

McNerney first ran for Congress against [[Richard Pombo]] in California's 11th congressional district in the [[U.S. House elections, 2004|2004 House elections]]. He entered the race two weeks before the primary election as a write-in candidate. He qualified by one vote and got on the ballot as the Democratic candidate in November. He lost the November general election, 61 to 39 percent.

=== 2006 ===

Meanwhile, Judd is reluctant to become a prefect, since he feels that he cannot endorse a "system of oppression" such as this. He however eventually agrees to become a prefect in order to prevent the hateful Fowler from becoming Head of House. This never comes about, however, because Devenish agrees to stay at school and become a prefect if he is nominated to become a god instead of Bennett.

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McNerney launched his 2006 campaign early in the fall of 2005. In June 2006 he won the Democratic primary with 52.8% of the vote, defeating Steve Filson and Stevan Thomas.

He has stated his support of the position of Representative [[John Murtha]], for a phased withdrawal during a 9 to 12 month period from Iraq, with an over-the-horizon Marine rapid reaction force in the region.

Devastated at the loss of his cherished dream of becoming a god Bennett comes to realize that the British class system strongly relies on outward appearance and that to be openly gay is a severe hindrance to a career as a [[diplomat]]. The epilogue of the movie states that he emigrated to Russia later in his life, after having been a spy for the [[Soviet Union]]. Judd has died fighting in the [[Spanish Civil War]].

In late July, Republicans [[Pete McCloskey]] and Tom Benigno (both of whom ran in the Republican primary against Pombo) endorsed McNerney.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/24/AR2006072400877.html|title=missingtitle|author=missingauthor|work=[[Washington Post]]|date=[[2006-07-24]]}}</ref>

In September analysis of the campaign was changed from "Republican safe" to "Republican favored" due to the emergence of McNerney's campaign. The report noted "a [GOP] party spokesman says it's because they want to win decisively but others speculate that internal polling has delivered bad news for the incumbent."<ref>{{cite web|author=Lisa Vorderbrueggen|url=http://www.cctextra.com/blogs/politicsblog/2006/09/rothenberg_reports_adds_pombo.html?source=rss&channel=cctimes_politics|title=News and observations, some serious, some not, on the East Bay political scene|work=ContraCostaTimes Politics Weblog|date=[[2006-09-23]]}}</ref>

==Title==

On October 3, 2006, a poll commissioned by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund was released with McNerney leading Pombo 48 percent to 46 percent.<ref name="poll3">{{cite news | url=http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061003/NEWS01/610030336|title=Poll shows Pombo, McNerney just 2 points apart|work=[[The Record (Stockton)|The Record]]|date=[[2006-10-03]]|publisher=ONI Stockton, Inc.|author=Hank Shaw|accessdate = 2006-08-18}}</ref>. There were two polls commissioned by the NRCC, but results weren't released. Based on these events, in early October, ''CQPolitics.com'' changed their rating of this race from ''Republican Favored'' to ''Leans Republican''<ref>{{cite news|title=Competitive Race Lies Beneath Flurry of GOP Activity in Calif. 11|author=Ryan Kelly|date=[[2006-10-03]]| url=http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/10/competitive_race_lies_beneath.html|publisher=CQPolitics.com}}</ref>

The title refers not only to communist [[Russia]], which is the "other country" Bennett turns to in the end, but it can be seen to take on a number of different meanings and connotations. "Another Country" is the title of a [[novel]] by [[James Baldwin]], which includes gay and bisexual characters. Also, it could be a reference to the first line of the second verse of the hymn ''[[I Vow to Thee, My Country]]'', which is sung in both the play and film, as well as referring to the fact that English public school life in the 1930s was indeed very much like "another country".

On November 7, 2006, Pombo was voted out of office in favor of McNerney.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/kcra/20061108/lo_kcra/10274159 | title=McNerney Unseats Pombo; Doolittle Beats Brown | publisher=[[KCRA]] | date=[[November 8]] [[2006]] | first= | last= | accessdate = 2006-11-08}}</ref> McNerney had 53.3 percent of the vote, while Pombo got 46.7 percent.

The most direct reference is to several well known lines from British literature, originating from [[Christopher Marlow]]'s play ''[[The Jew of Malta]]''

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'''Friar Barnadine:''' "Thou hast committed--"<br>

'''Barabas:''' "Fornication-- but that was in another country; / And besides, the wench is dead."

</blockquote>

Here "the wench" may refer to Martineau. Most of the students are more interested in covering up a potential scandal than worrying about the actual death. If so, the "adultery" may refer to what is done to Martineau and perhaps all students by the school, rather than his actual sexual liasons.

==References==

The title should not be confused with "“The past is a <i>foreign</i> country; they do things differently there.” [[L. P. Hartley]], but again the movie's framing as the narration of an old man may reference this well-known quote.

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== External links ==

*[http://mcnerney.house.gov/ U.S. Representative Jerry McNerney] '''official House site'''

* {{imdb title|id=0086904|title=Another Country}}

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* [http://www.anitaspages.net/html/acstage.htm Anita Olsen's Another Country page]

*[http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/H4CA11081 Federal Election Commission — Jerry McNerney] campaign finance reports and data

*[http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Jerry_McNerney.htm On the Issues — Jerry McNerney] issue positions and quotes

*[http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00007312 OpenSecrets.org — Jerry McNerney] campaign contributions

*[http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=MCA77155 Project Vote Smart — Representative Gerald 'Jerry' McNerney (CA)] profile

*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerry_McNerney SourceWatch Congresspedia — Jerry McNerney] profile

*[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/f000030/ Washington Post — Congress Votes Database: Jerry McNerney] voting record

*[http://www.jerrymcnerney.org/ Jerry McNerney for Congress] '''official campaign site'''

*[http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/1100.htm 2006 primary election results, 11th District]

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