Local Politics
April 1st, 2006 (11:41 pm)
Today was the local DFL (Democrat-Farm-Labor = what Minnesotans call Democrats) endorsing convention for my state legislators. Our State Senator, Wes Skoglund, decided to retire this year, so there was already quite a lot of interest when the caucuses were held. Shortly after that, our congressman, Martin Sabo, announced his retirement. The U.S. Senate seat is also open, though Amy Klobochar largely has that one sewn up.
Anyway, this was clearly going to be an interesting day, in a thoroughly wonkish sort of way.
(Cut for the people who really could not care less about Minneapolis politics. Or, for a much shorter version, you can read Ed's take on it.)
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