Tom Horner says Jesse Ventura’s first two years in office are a template for governing, should his Independence Party campaign match Ventura’s 1998 storming of the governor’s mansion. But before that can happen, says 2002 IP guv candidate Tim Penny, the party may have its first real endorsement battle.
The 2010 gubernatorial contest will not be a two-party affair. With no clear favorites on either the Democratic or Republican side of the aisle, the political climate is potentially ripe for a third-party candidate to gain a toehold in the race.
On today’s Star Tribune cover Patricia Lopez makes a case that Minnesota voters who don’t intend to vote a straight party line at the top of the ballot could play a critical role in the outcome of the state’s U.S. Senate race. If that sounds familiar it’s because the Strib printed essentially the same story two years ago about voters who backed Democrat Amy Klobuchar for U.S. Senate and Republican Tim Pawlenty for governor. The difference is that in 2006 the poll numbers justified the fuss.
Rallying around 2006 gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson’s exhortation that “the campaign’s not over,” the Independence party’s central committee worked Sunday to chart their course for the next two years.
Hutchinson’s speech, delivered after extensive discussion…
Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
I’m sick and tired of politics, particularly negative advertising and public broadsides coming primarily from the GOP side. But the Dems are not innocent either, and when they start slinging mud it makes me doubly…
Tim Penny brings the IP ticket to town
Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
Early in his remarks Saturday evening, gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson introduced some of those in attendance at the house of Tim Penny in…
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