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Minnesota Federal Elections, 2006

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This article discusses elections for the U.S. House and Senate from Minnesota in 2006.

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MN-01

Tim Walz began running by the end of '04. Tim's experience in the military as a Command Sargeant Major comes through. The energy and fervency of support among those who meet Tim is not parallelled by any of the previous three candidates. In short, Tim as a commander inspires loyalty. Tim Walz is a threat to Gutknecht.

Gutknecht's Weakness in GOP The GOP doesn't think too highly of Gil Gutknecht. As a six term incumbent who made very clear that he wanted to run for US Senate he should have been a shoo-in. Yet Mark Kennedy, a two term incumbent congressman, was annointed by the GOP. How to explain Gutknecht's lack of influence? In a word - competence.

Tim is paying attention to the constituents of the district. The biggest constituency Gutknecht serves is the Big Ag, Oil Companies, and the ultra-rich. That is the way to explain his votes.

The issues of honesty, integrity, and competence are on the front burner, nationally. Honesty: Gil is prone to say one thing, then vote the other way. Integrity: Gil is tainted by Delay money, and Rep. Gutknecht votes 94% of the time with Tom Delay and the House Republican Caucus. Competence: Obviously, his party thinks he is incompetent by 1) annointing a rival junior congressman in the run for US Senate, 2) affording him NO powerful chairmanships.

MN-02

MN-03

MN-04

MN-05

MN-06

**Patty Wetterling - 2004 nominee.

**Michele Bachmann - State Senator

Patty Wetterling won the democratic nomination after seven rounds of voting and a concession by Elwyn Tinklenberg (Former State Transportation Commissioner and Blaine Mayor). Bachmann won the Republican nomination setting off what many call a left vs. right social values debate. Other Republican candidates were Jim Knoblach, Phil Krinkie, Jay Esmay.

MN-07

MN-08

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This page was last modified 17:28, 7 October 2006 by dKosopedia user Corncam. Based on work by Chad Lupkes and dKosopedia user(s) Pollpundits and Allamakee Democrat. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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