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Yeah...he is a native New Yorker who was a campus radical at Hoffstra, then studied law at the University of Iowa. He was a lawyer in the Attorney General's office in Minnesota when he started to see the damage liberalism was doing. He ran for mayor of St. Paul and actually reduced the size of its leviathan city government, ran for governor as a Republican, coming in second to Jessie Ventura, but whipping his DFL competitor, Skip Humphrey by an overwhelming vote. He ran against Wellstone and was ahead in the polls (Wellstone had promised he would serve only two terms, then ran a third time) when Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash. The DFL put former ex-US veep Fritz Mondale in Wellstone's campaign (remember the Wellstone Funeral?) and the whole revolting house of cards fell in shortly afterward with Coleman's election. I voted for Jessie when Norm ran for governor because I wasn't sure of his "conversion" and I liked what Jessie was saying about chopping back the state's gold-plated bureaucracy. Once Jessie got into the Gov's mansion he reversed his attitude and starting talking about light rail and new office buildings for state employees. These projects would be his legacy, he thought. Norm went back to running St. Paul and brought back a hockey franchise to the city which won him the blue collar vote. Norm has become a trustworthy conservative and I wouldn't mind seeing him in national office.