Gaertner campaign adds communications director

Time will pass. People will forget the images of black-clad storm troopers during last September’s siege of St Paul during the RNC (if they ever knew). Charges will be dropped and incidents forgotten. The smell of tear-gas and the sting of pepper-spray in the air will no longer linger much in our collective conscientiousness. We will forget our democratic freedoms lost, or perhaps forget we ever had them. Yet when Susan Gaertner stands in front of the state DFL convention and asks for the endorsement for governor, there will be a vague sense that something is wrong, that this is not the candidate we wish to lead our state. She will not be endorsed, even though most with reservations about her will not even realize why they remain skeptical. Since Gaertner has pledged to abide by the endorsement, it is very hard to see what sort of chance she might possibly have.