Clark, Franken headed to Vegas for Netroots Nation

Photo: TarrylClark.com

Tarryl Clark, the DFLer challenging U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in November, is headed to Las Vegas on Saturday to attend Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of progressive bloggers and candidates which spun off from YearlyKos, a get-together of DailyKos diarists and fans. She’ll have some Minnesota company: Sen. Al Franken is giving the closing day keynote.

“I’m coming to Netroots Nation 2010, and I’m asking you to be a part of my campaign for Congress,” Clark wrote in a post on DailyKos Friday. “Washington isn’t working for the people of my district, and neither is Michele Bachmann. They deserve better. They deserve a representative to will always be on their side. And that’s exactly where I’ll be.”

She praised the DailyKos community for spotlighting some of Bachmann’s more incendiary statements in recent years.

You’ve kept vigilant watch as Congresswoman Bachmann has gone under the white-hot spotlights of the cable talk show circuit again and again. And you’ve called her out: when she called on a conservative crowd to “slit our wrists” and “become blood brothers” in the efforts to defeat health care reform. When she called net neutrality an Obama plot to censor the Internet. When she said the American people needed to be “weaned off” Social Security and Medicare.

Clark, who attended last year’s Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh, will be speaking in a program with Franken at the conference’s closing ceremonies on Saturday.