Posted on 02/05/2019 8:37:46 PM PST by Impala64ssa
The win expanded the GOP's narrow majority in the chamber and ended more than two decades of representation in the district by Democrats and members of the Lourey family. Jason Rarick, Republican candidate for State Senate in the SD11 special election, spoke with Lori Cervenka and her daughters Hannah and Casey, at a bingo fundraiser in Sturgeon Lake ahead of Tuesday's election.
Republican Jason Rarick won a hotly contested special election for a Minnesota Senate seat Tuesday, expanding the GOP’s narrow majority in the chamber. Rarick, a state representative from Pine City, defeated Democrat Stu Lourey 53 percent to 45 percent to flip the 11th Senate District. Legal Marijuana Now candidate John Birrenbach captured 2 percent of the vote. The win means Republicans will expand their narrow majority in the state Senate by one vote. The 35-32 split may make it more difficult for Gov. Tim Walz and Democrats in control of the state House to pass proposals key to their agenda, including bills related to guns, heath care and a gas tax, this session. The results also bring an end more than two decades of representation in the district by Democrats and members of the Lourey family. The seat opened up after Walz appointed former Democratic Sen. Tony Lourey, who is Stu Lourey’s father, as his Human Services commissioner. Tony Lourey had succeeded his own mother, Becky Lourey, in the district. High stakes led political parties and outside groups to target the seat, spending heavily and sending scores of volunteers to rally voters in what was expected to be a low-turnout election. Ballot delays reported in the district’s many mail-only precincts complicated the four-week sprint to fill the seat.
Given those dynamics, Lourey, Rarick and their respective allies focused heavily on encouraging voters to head to the polls,
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It’s like 30 seconds over Tokyo. Felt good but little effect.
Winning by 8 points is “tight,” Minneapolis Star-Tribune?
An 8% margin of victory by the GOP candidate for a seat expected to be won by the RAT is “tight”?!
I actually used to know that reporter when she worked for the Sacramento Bee. It goes without saying that she's liberal, but I always thought she was more so than most ... with a chip on her shoulder. So the slant on the story is to be expected.
They say that so they can try to steal it.
Good news then.
Of course. While Obama winning 51% of the vote was a landslide.
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