The intricacies of party politics in the Medium White North now officially confuse me: Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher (as posted earlier) did, in fact, win the endorsement of the DFL for the Governorship. I wondered aloud where Former MN Senator Mark Dayton was in all of this- as his name was conspicuously absent from the Convention coverage on the StarTrib.
Well, he was lurking all right. He just wasn't invited to the Convention, for some reason... now that Kelliher has the endorsement, she gets to go straight into a contested primary, running up against Former MN Senator Mark Dayton, former State Rep Matt Entenza and Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner. All of whom have bigger pull and wallets than she does...
I think I'm going to take the opportunity to put the Governorship of the Medium White North into the 'up for grabs' category. A 14 hour endorsement convention followed by a bruising primary? Maybe a recipe for a damn good, strong candidate- or could be a recipe for wounded wolf, limping across the finish line into the waiting maw of whomever the Minny GOP picks.
Of course, if the Minny GOP has an equally bruising primary ahead all of this could be a moot point.
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