Seifert, Kelliher won’t run for reelection
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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Former House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, said on Thursday that he would not seek reelection no mater the outcome of his campaign for governor. Seifert stepped down as Minority Leader in June when he announced his campaign to replace Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who announced in June he wouldn’t be seeking a third term.
“The decision was made a long time ago not to run, regardless of how the governor’s race goes and before Governor Tim Pawlenty announced he was not seeking re-election,” Seifert said. He held a press conference in Marshall Thursday morning and has another one scheduled for St. Paul this afternoon.
Another leader at the Legislature, House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, told the Star Tribune on Monday that she won’t be seeking reelection either. Kelliher is running for the DFL nomination for governor. She won’t step down as House Speaker, but she says she “won’t be the speaker in 2011.”
The Minnesota Progressive Project caught that scoop back in November.
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Comment posted October 15, 2009 @ 1:41 pm
Thankfully we won’t have to put up with Mr. Seifert after the primary next year. He will lose that and then vanish into oblivion.
Sadly, we will greatly miss the reasoned voice of Ms. Kelliher in the House. However, we can look forward to a long and multi-term future as the Governor of the Great State of Minnesota for her.
Ms. Kelliher will see to it that Health Care is a Right for all Minnesotans, and that those who need help in this state receive it. She will not turn her back on the normal people like T-Paw has done – favoring the uber-rich over the regular folk.
Go Maggie, go!
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