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An already packed gubernatorial field for Democrats just got bigger with the addition of a high-profile DFLer: House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher announced this afternoon that she’s filed to run for governor.
In an email to supporters this afternoon, the six-term Minneapolis legislator positioned herself as a consensus-builder, alluding to her role in improving the state’s infrastructure after the I-35W collapse and in passing “Minnesota’s nation-leading renewable energy standard.”
This filing is her candidacy’s “first step,” as her email subject line states — the next one is raising funds and staffing up — but she says she’ll wait a few weeks to “formally announce” that she’s in.
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Pingback posted August 14, 2009 @ 8:35 am
[...] Minnesota Independent: An already packed gubernatorial field for Democrats just got bigger with the addition of a high-profile DFLer: House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher announced this afternoon that she’s filed to run for governor. [...]
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 11:52 am
Good Luck AK. You exhibited a woeful lack of leadership just as Pawlenty did. Worse, you had a majority to work with and still couldn’t get anything accomplished. Pawlenty played the Dems for fools, which is sad considering the state of the State he’s left us in. Hard to look more inept than Pawlenty, but she pulled it off. Who’s running on a 3rd party ticket? I’m done with tit-for-tat bipartisan finger pointing.
Comment posted August 16, 2009 @ 9:45 am
Say what you like, she, will be the most electable candidate for the DFL. She brings out-state, middle-class, agricultural roots, to her Minneapolis base. She can talk to those rural folks in a way that no other potential DFL candidate can. Good luck to her, its time to take back the govenor’s office.
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