AM.MN: Guv hopefuls carless, sickened by sprawl, scared to bike

Leslie Davis is the only candidate for governor who doesn’t own a car. It’s too dangerous for John Marty to bike 12 miles to work. Urban sprawl sickens and saddens Tom Rukavina. That’s what attendees heard Monday at the first gubernatorial forum on transportation, land use and the environment.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

STATE CAPITOL: Tom Emmer feels Carol Molnau’s love. The lieutenant governor and former transportation commissioner flirted with running for governor herself; guv rival Marty Seifert finds favor among some other Republican women. [Politics in Minnesota; Hot Dish Politics]

DULUTH: Ness favors Rybak. Duluth’s boy mayor (he’s 36) likes Minneapolis’ boyish mayor best in the race for governor. [Duluth News Tribune]

STATEWIDE: DFL voter lists can’t stay out of trouble. This time they somehow got into the hands of Minneapolis police and firefighter PACs, who ravaged Rybak in a mailing to likely caucusers. [Star Tribune]

STATEWIDE: Norm Coleman will be back. And, says an editorial, he’ll bring his “reservoir of goodwill,” mark our words. [Forum Communications]

SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA: Governor calls out National Guard. Wind-whipped snow closed roads, stranding travelers.  [WCCO]

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Student shot. It happened outside his dorm. [Minnesota Daily]