AM.MN: Landrieu tampers with Klobuchar’s gumbo

For the second time this week, things didn’t go as planned for a costumed Minnesotan entering the offices of Louisiana’s Sen. Mary Landrieu. Amy Klobuchar, dressed like a New Orleans Saints fan, tried to make good on a football bet Wednesday by delivering a dish of Minnesota gumbo to her colleague’s Washington office. But A-Klo’s maiden batch of the zesty New Orleans stew “had no flavor whatsoever” — a problem that Landrieu (who’s apparently pickier about food than who fixes her phones) repaired with hot sauce.

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

BLOOMINGTON: This is what democracy looks like! Twenty gubernatorial candidates, sitting behind two very long tables. [Southwest Newspapers via Minnesota News Council]

LAKE SUPERIOR: This is what improper regulatory protection looks like. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), the fish-killing viral invader, finally makes it to Gitchee Gumee. (Duluth News Tribune)

STATE CAPITOL: “The most to gain and the most to lose.” That’s what Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s got, as candidate for governor and state House Speaker. [Politics in Minnesota]

ST. PAUL: GAMC will survive one month longer. Now the state medical care program for the poor will die April 1. [Associated Press]

DELLWOOD: The Elephant Who Protected the Donkey. State auditor candidate Pat Anderson already let go of her own campaign for governor — but now she is helping DFLer R.T. Rybak’s. [Polinaut]

RAMSEY: City of 23,000 could get veterans hospital and train station. And a pony. [Star Tribune]