Sunday, I reported that Gary Wertish was elected Vice President of the Minnesota Farmers Union by delegates at the group's annual convention. In the video below, Bruce Miller talks about the group's pioneering use of IRV to pick new leadership:
In other news from the MFU convention, Politics in Minnesota reports in Minnesota Farmers Union PAC straw poll is a bountiful harvest for Kelliher:
Gubernatorial candidates Margaret Anderson Kelliher and Marty Seifert won this weekend’s Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU) Political Action Committee straw polls.
Kelliher . . . received 36 percent in the poll, according to Thom Petersen, MFU’s director of government relations.
Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton came in second among DFLers with 20 percent. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak received 12 percent and Rep. Tom Rukavina, DFL-Virginia, received 11 percent.
Those of us who attended the PAC reception vote for one candidate for each party. In the Republican column:
Seifert, a GOP state representative from Marshall, won with 61 percent of the vote. Undecided votes came in second in the GOP poll with 17 percent.
I voted for Seifert, who was the only Republican candidate to meet with the convention delegates, because he seems to have a more common sense (and somewhat less ideologically driven) approach to ag and rural policy.
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