At a candidate meet-and-greet Thursday night in Mankato, Republican candidates vying to run against Rep. Tim Walz openly courted the Tea Party vote and distanced themselves from “typical” Republicans. Allen Quist and Randy Demmer attended an…
Campaign finance numbers for Allen Quist, who is challenging Rep. Tim Walz in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional district, show the Republican having low cash flow for the last quarter of 2009.
As if to illustrate Allen Quist‘s November comment that he and Rep. Michele Bachmann are “two peas in a pod,” the First Congressional District candidate’s campaign announced Saturday that the pair will share a…
In his new “white paper” on terrorism, First Congressional District Republican Jim Hagedorn offers some controversial rhetoric: “Young men from Islamic-dominated nations, who have no legitimate reason to visit the United States, should not be granted access to our country,” he writes. And: “Terrorists should be given last rites, not Miranda Rights.” But when asked by the Minnesota Independent for details on specific terror-fighting strategies, the Blue Earth Republican’s response was all of 25 words long — delivered by cellphone text message.
Two of Rep. Tim Walz’s GOP challengers got a dressing down by an in-district paper Friday just as they’re ramping their campaigns up: The Mankato Free Press gave the duo a “thumbs down” — for the negative “tone”…
The state Democratic party called on Republican candidate Allen Quist to apologize on Tuesday for statements he made at a Wabasha Republicans Christmas party that called the battle against Democrats bigger than the battle against terrorism. Quist told the Minnesota Independent over the weekend that his comments were taken out of context by liberal bloggers.
Allen Quist, a Republican hoping to secure the nomination to run against Rep. Tim Walz in Minnesota’s First Congressional district, responded to criticisms over a YouTube video in which Quist said the battle against Democrats was bigger than the battle against terrorism. In emails with the Minnesota Independent, he says his words were taken out of context.
From Allen Quist to Mike Parry, several conservative candidates in Minnesota have recently made (or have had revealed) statements extreme enough to earn terms of rebuke like “intolerant,” “appalling,” and “poisonous.” A partisan critic and a political scientist say such remarks show the candidates are not “of” their party’s rank and file and “erode [the candidates'] ability to speak to the voting middle.”
CD1 candidate Allen Quist got another MSNBC mention last night: Following clips of his Dec. 7 address to southern Minnesota Republicans on Rachel Maddow‘s and Ed Schultz‘s shows comes an appearance on Chris Matthews’ “Hardball” last night.
Rep. Tim Walz appeared on the Ed Schultz Show on MSNBC Tuesday night to respond to opponent Allen Quist’s comments that the “battle” against Democrats is bigger than fighting terrorism. Walz called the comments “poisonous, spiteful [and] incredibly distasteful,” and said “it poisons the dialogue” over public policy differences.
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