AM.MN: Virginia is for lovers … of medieval gender politics
Wednesday, September 09, 2009 at 8:30 am
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Gov. Pawlenty will be speaking to citizens all day long today as he travels around the state … of Virginia. He didn’t cancel his trip to campaign there for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell despite the howling of critics ever since excerpts surfaced from McDonnell’s 1989 academic thesis (pdf) revealing his preference for retrograde social policies (laws should favor married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators,” working moms are “detrimental”). They’re like the dredged-up writings that nearly sunk Al Franken — except McDonnell wasn’t kidding.
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …
WHO KNOWS WHERE: President said to speak in state Saturday. The topic: health care. The draw: Mayo Clinic. The place: Who knows? [MinnPost]
ROCHESTER: Walz lukewarm on Afghan troop surge. Just back from Afghanistan, the First District DFLer said he won’t support more boots on the ground “simply to increase our footprint.” [Rochester Post-Bulletin]
STATE CAPITOL, EDEN PRAIRIE: Doom and boom. At separate summits on the state’s economy, leaders said things are worse than they look or better than they seem. [Star Tribune]
MINNEAPOLIS: Separate and unequal. Disrepair and decay haunt parks in poorer parts of town, and the park board can’t prove it’s not redlining because it doesn’t track its own spending. [City Pages]
DULUTH: School board candidate endorses opponent. He’s already a board member but filed to run for another seat in case a judge kicked him off … it’s complicated. [Duluth News Tribune]
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: One in three will get flu soon. The H1N1 virus will strike 30 percent of the student body in the next three to four weeks, an expert says. [Minnesota Daily]
5 Comments
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 8:48 am
That’s because unlike the Wash Post, Pawlenty and McDonnell are focused on today’s race, not papers from years ago.
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 10:02 am
What’s past is prologue. Has Mr. McDonnell renounced his earlier views?
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 10:23 am
Isn’t TPaw on record as saying that we need to look at Al’s Playboy interview from years past as a “reflection on the man”, Jsmith?
Comment posted September 9, 2009 @ 10:30 am
I read McDonnell’s thesis, and I think everyone has ignored an equally important issue: it’s a pretty darned shoddy “thesis” for someone supposedly getting a post-graduate degree. It reads more like a real long letter to the editor with a lot of footnotes to questionable “data”.
If he hadn’t been attending Pat Robertson’s diploma mill, I don’t think any honest thesis committee would have granted a Master’s based on such slight and shabby work.
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