According to the Engbrecht for Senate calendar, two candidate forums are scheduled in the State Senate District 26 Special Election; in an email, campaign manager John Coffey notes a third is in the works, though Engbrecht has yet to receive a formal invitation.
Monday, January 11
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Faribault City Hall
208 NW 1st Ave.
Faribault, MN 55021
Tuesday, January 12
1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m.
KOWZ Radio 100.9 FM
No streaming audio available
Thursday, January 14 7 p.m.
Owatonna Arts Center
Sponsored by the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities and the Highway 14 Partnership
Monday, January 18
11:30 a.m.to 1:30 p.m.
Owatonna Country Club
1991 Lemond Rd. Owatonna, MN
Friday, January 22 1 p.m.
Owatonna Elks Club
Sponsored by the Minnesota Farmers Union and the Minnesota Farm Bureau
Sponsors: Rotary Clubs of Owatonna, The Owatonna Chamber of Commerce and the Owatonna People Press. (Formal invitations to the candidates for this forum should be forthcoming this week, Engbrecht campaign manager John Coffey noted in an email).
More information about other events--including meet and greets and the first scheduled doorknock--can be found at Engbrecht's Facebook page. Those interested in signing up for phone banks and door knocks can sign up at the Engbrecht for State Senate web site.
The web site notes local press Engbrecht is getting. In From politics to business, an exciting year is taking shape, the Faribault Daily News reports:
One of the biggest stories will play out this month as Faribault School Board member Jason Engbrecht tries to win longtime Sen. Dick Day’s seat in a special election Jan. 26.
Engbrecht is a Faribault resident and professor at St. Olaf College. He gained the endorsement last week from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.
He squares off against Waseca businessman Mike Parry, who received the GOP nod, and Roy Srp, an Independence party candidate.
As an academic-minded candidate and member of the Faribault School Board, Engbrecht can talk about education as an issue and did last week during a question and answer session in Owatonna. . .. . .Should Engbrecht win the Jan. 26 election, the Faribault School Board will have its work cut out to find a replacement. Engbrecht had been tapped to become chair of that board.
In Democrats meet Senate hopeful Jason Engbrecht, the Owatonna People's Press featured an in-depth look at Engbrecht's views. In Congrats to Senate candidates, the Waseca County News did just that. MPR looked at The science of balancing the budget in its interview, the headline playfully working Engbrecht job as a college physics prof into the story, KEYC-TV reported Candidates Selected To Run For Vacant Senate Seat.
Meanwhile, as Bluestem and the Minnesota Progressive Project note, the Mike Parry twitter scrubbing story has gone national, a fairly unusual event for a local state senate race.
Photo: Jason Engbrecht.
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