PoliTweeps: All eyes on the Gulf

As many in Minnesota politics focused their tweets on BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — and political responses to it — one candidate, Democrat Hal Kimball, was watching campaign signs across Minnesota, including one for a Star Wars character billed as “our only hope.”

—Tom Horner, Independence Party candidate for governor

—Greg Knutson, GOP House candidate (District 5A), Hoyt Lakes

—Stephanie Schriock, president, EMILY’s List

— Kevin Watterson, public affairs director, House Republican Caucus

—Sen. Tarryl Clark, DFL candidate for U.S. House, St. Cloud

—Hal Kimball, DFL Senate candidate (District 18), Cokato