On Saturday, Brian Davis shared his plans with the Strib:
Davis will start an aggressive door-knocking campaign Monday on Walz's home turf, where the former National Guard member and high school teacher is wildly popular.
In Mankato today, the public schools have closed early because of the snow. In Saturday's more temperate weather, the Walz campaign completed 5,000 voter contacts.
Perhaps the storm will allow Davis to catch more people at home so he can tell them that he knows better than they do. As he said in his acceptance speech:
"Even if they don't know they're Republican votes, we'll get them anyhow."
Perhaps he'll help the kiddies build a snowman. It's nothing, really.
Meanwhile, over in the Post Bulletin, Day responds quickly to nominee. Day is sounding like the emails we've been getting from our readers in Rochester:
Day, who skipped the convention and is opting to try his chances in a September primary against Davis, said the primary would give voters a choice between a candidate, like himself, who has served and been involved with communities and one, like Davis, who has no record and will need on-the-job training.
"It's not a time to learn about politics. I don't know of anything in the city of Rochester that Brian Davis has done since he moved there, in politics," Day said.
If any of our readers know of any community service to Rochester or other cities that Brian Davis has done, please email us. Like Day, we'd love to know.
Unlike Davis, when Tim Walz ran for office for the first time, he had years of service to his community and country. Day and Demmer, too, were involved in their local communities before they ran for office. Davis? Not so much.
We'll be watching Randy Demmer as well. Given the experience he just went through, we can understand why he's mulling a fourth run for the state legislature. The Post Bulletin says:
The outcome of the endorsement contest appeared to throw Hayfield state Rep. Randy Demmer's political future into doubt. Demmer, who was gracious in defeat, said he isn't certain he would run for his state House seat in November.
"You know, I like doing new things. Let's take a second, step back and make a decision maybe in a couple days after the smoke clears," Demmer said.
One of the arguments Davis supporters made is that a Demmer endorsement would put his seat in the state House in greater play in November. With Demmer as the congressional candidate, the reasoning went, the DFL would have a greater chance of securing a bulletproof majority to wield against Governor Pawlenty's veto pen.
Demmer is no doubt considering the large sum he loaned to his congressional campaign, money that will be hard to pay back at a state legislator's salary. In ordinary times, the party faithful could be relied upon to help a good faith candidate like Demmer redeem his debts. However, given the Republicans need to fund the Davis primary bid, and the Kline, Bachmann and Paulsen races, that possibility may be slight. As an experienced businessman and farmer, Demmer may be weighing the lost opportunity costs of staying in the state House for the sake of the party that picked another.
Brian Davis -
Not quite a hollow man, possibly a stuffed man, but no, a snowman! Exactly.
Posted by: Jeff Hanneman | April 01, 2008 at 02:08 PM