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Mark Dayton Not Running For Re-election
Minneapolis Star Tribune (aka The Red Star) ^

Posted on 02/09/2005 9:59:41 AM PST by MplsSteve

Wow, if this is true Minnesota is gonna be a huge free for all in '06.

Everybody and their brother will run for this seat.

The DFL still has a large reservoir of talent even though the GOP has pulled to almost parity in recent elections.

Opinions anyone?

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 2006; cowardlyrats; dfl; electionussenate; flee; hahahahahahahahaha; imdeeplysaddened; imsoscared; iwantmymommy; laughingstock; marchto60seats; markdayton; rats; runandhide; skeedaddle
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Peterson is too Conservative to get the nod, and I can't imagine why Oberstar would would want to give up his seniority in the House (32 years by Jan '07) to become a junior Senator of the minority party. I don't know what the record is, but I've tended to observe that rare few House members that have served more than 16 or so years (effectively "lifers") care to make the jump to the Senate (as we all know, it's a different culture in both bodies).


61 posted on 02/09/2005 12:30:30 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (*Gregoire is French for Stealing an Election*)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; MplsSteve
I agree with Steve. It seems more likely Hatch will try for Governor, but then, you never know.

I wonder .... no insights from me on Hatch but open seats tend to have strong magnetic qualities. Pawlenty's not in great shape but he's not in bad shape either. An open senate seat is surely a boon to him, as it draws money and challengers away from his race?

62 posted on 02/09/2005 12:31:54 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now." - Clint Eastwood)
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To: MplsSteve

thanks for posting this Star & Sickle good news.
DO you think it'll be Mark Kennedy, Brian Sullivan, Rod Grams or someone else the republicans will run... ??


63 posted on 02/09/2005 12:34:41 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (no government program is ever a failure-it's just 'underfunded'...)
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To: OldFriend

Really?

I hadn't heard that but it wouldn't surprise me, I guess.


64 posted on 02/09/2005 12:36:04 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Hatch has more $ than Dayton with all his (our) state tobacco money.


65 posted on 02/09/2005 12:37:42 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (no government program is ever a failure-it's just 'underfunded'...)
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To: Rakkasan1

I'm totally against Rod Grams giving it another try.

I voted for him, volunteered for him and wrote a couple of checks to him.

But he ran such an incredibly incompetent re-election race in 2000 and gave us Mark Dayton as a result.

His constituent efforts were crap as well. A person can only blame so much of that on office and staff issues

Rod needs to forget about this one.


66 posted on 02/09/2005 12:40:46 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: JewishRighter

I believe he did.

He also made the same comments on the Senate floor before voting NO on her confirmation.


67 posted on 02/09/2005 12:42:00 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

I see on the Tribune's "blog" list that FR is listed. We ain't no blog! :)

But I was kinda hoping that Evacuatin' Dayton would have tried for re-election. Slapping him around would have been fun.


68 posted on 02/09/2005 12:48:06 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)
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To: GOPGuide
Agreed, the MN Dems have a deep bench.

I don't know that it's as deep as people think. Minnesota hasn't had a Democrat governor in nearly twenty years and the only DFL statewide office holder is Attorney General Mike Hatch.

Will be an interesting race. I could easily support someone like Mark Kennedy or even John Klein if he chose to run.

69 posted on 02/09/2005 12:50:14 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)
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To: Buck W.
I had no idea Page was a justice. Is he R or DFL?

As a MN Supreme Court Justice he probably doesn't say, but he's a liberal.

70 posted on 02/09/2005 12:51:30 PM PST by RJL
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To: Colonel_Flagg

How about Fran Tarkington for Senate?

I also heard somewhere that one of Paul Wellstone's sons might try for the senate seat? Any truth in that rumor?


71 posted on 02/09/2005 12:51:49 PM PST by princess leah (\)
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To: princess leah

I think the Republicans are deep enough to get a known statewide political figure elected without having to run a political novice. Some have mentioned Tim Pawlenty as a candidate too somewhere down the line.

I haven't heard the Wellstone rumors. That would concern me.


72 posted on 02/09/2005 12:53:26 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse."-Buckaroo Banzai)
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To: CommerceComet
I'd give Ventura 6 years in the U. S. Senate without a Republican challenge just to see him put a serious hurt on Franken. Any legislative body with Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer, Murray, Cantwell, etc. could survive one more clown like Jesse.

Problem is, Jesse talked like a libertarian/conservative, but governed like a liberal. No Thanks!

73 posted on 02/09/2005 12:54:38 PM PST by RJL
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To: MplsSteve

I'd like to see Mary Kiffmeyer make a go at it


74 posted on 02/09/2005 1:04:28 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (no government program is ever a failure-it's just 'underfunded'...)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

The son that went all Deaniac at the memorial would have a lot to overcome. That was quite the performance. I doubt many people have forgotten.


75 posted on 02/09/2005 1:08:01 PM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: MplsSteve

This is great news. Dayton probably would have been in the fight of his life for re-election anyway, and no doubt he'd have taken some heat for being the only senator to close his DC office. I think we will see Mark Kennedy getting into this race sooner rather than later.

The GOP has to be happy about their chances of winning this open seat.


76 posted on 02/09/2005 1:11:31 PM PST by GiveEmDubya
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To: RJL

Page is a liberal both in his rulings and with the company he keeps.


77 posted on 02/09/2005 1:12:07 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Buck W.

Quite definitely an out and out DFLer.


78 posted on 02/09/2005 1:16:28 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (*Gregoire is French for Stealing an Election*)
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To: MHT

Start recording sound bites for this dude, now! If he runs, it will be a free for all...


79 posted on 02/09/2005 1:17:21 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: MplsSteve

Maybe the Dem primary will be a two man race between Al Franken and Fritz Mondale?


80 posted on 02/09/2005 1:32:36 PM PST by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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