It's a quiet night on the prairie, with Minnesota's netroots more focused on the upcoming DFL primary for the open seat in MN-05. Those who are covering the First are in fine form.
Tom Scheck at Polinaut leads his Daily Digest with an MN-01 round-up. At Vox Verax and the Minnesota Monitor, Leigh Pomeroy also notes the national attention drawn to the Fighting First.
The DNC is darned proud of that there Walz. Smartie at Power Liberal takes note of the Andy Welti state House race in Rochester as a place for small state-refundable contributions (emphasis ours)
Welti is an incumbent who won his seat with a very narrow victory in 2004. Rightly or wrongly, Rochester is often viewed as a Republican stronghold, but it has been trending back to center and center/left candidates lately. This is a good place to help continue that trend. Bonus points to this race: helping to increase Dem. turnout in the 1st District helps Tim Walz for CD-1.
May we suggest that Welti contributors deposit their Minnesota political contribution refunds, then cut a check for Walz? (Contributions to federal candidates aren't eligible for this state-level program).
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that the Walz campaign has $244,000 in the bank, while the Gutknecht campaign didn't return phone calls. For some reason, this oldie-but-goodie about Gil Gutknecht's Out-of-state Big Cheese Money at Minnesota Republican Watch shows up in Google Blog Search as only 14 hours old. Perhaps the story is just finely aged, like a great cheddar.
Help boost Walz's bank account by contributing here. The radio ads that we read about in the Mankato Free Press won't be all that cheap, even though a media dollar goes further in rural markets like those in MN-01.
Want to know what your dollar buys? MnPublius has the exclusive sound file of the first ad that's hitting WCCO. Go listen.
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