The AP's Patrick Condon and Brian Bakst note at the end of an article about tomorrow's primary:
-In southern Minnesota, Republicans are choosing a candidate to take on freshman Democratic Congressman Tim Walz. The GOP endorsed Mayo Clinic cancer doctor Brian Davis, a first-time candidate who appeals to the party base. He faces veteran state Sen. Dick Day of Owatonna, a garrulous politician who casts himself a maverick.
How much does Davis appeal to the base? The Worthington Globe endorsed him for the primary because the party endorsed him in Davis should face Walz in Nov. And Dick Day? Naughty for bucking the party endorsement process. A reader posts in the comments section:
. . .And by the way I was with Sen. Day this spring when he visited the Daily Globe. Unfortunately the Daily Globe reneged on its appointment with Sen. Day and didn't print that he was even in town even when he announced he was running for the primary. . . .
Go read the editorial and the full comment. Did the editors snub Day?
Earlier, the Owatonna People's Press came to the opposite conclusion in Day is the best choice for GOP. The Post Bulletin's board (it did not endorse candidates in 2006) recommends that readers vote in the primary.
In the OPP's news section, Jeff Cagle looks at Day's maverick status--or naughtiness, depending on your point of view--in Party endorsement may hold weight in primary election on Owatonna
According to Wikipedia, the 2000 census determined that 11,283 people lived in Worthington, while 22,434 souls were found in Owatonna. Rochester, where Day was born and worked, and Davis lives, is now Minnesota's third largest city at 100,000.
We have to believe the editors of the Faribault Daily News had their tongues firmly planted in their rosy cheeks when they wrote this Saturday Starter:
Brothers in solitude
You’ve heard of all those whacky connections between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln? Ya know, like Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln and Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy? Now there’s Ron Paul and Dick Day. Both are Republicans. Both have seven letters in their names. And both weren’t allowed at the Republican National Convention. Eerie.
The Rochester Democrat notes the new federal funding for the state veterans home in Luverne. Corner House Comments looks at the Real McCain of Genius.
The New Ulm Journal relates Cathedral High grad's experience as a runner for CBS News in Inside the RNC. File this observation in the "Out Of The Mouths of Babes" drawer:
Langer also observed the way the national media covered the convention and the way Republican supporters behaved.
"The messages were very fractured. They didn't want to talk policies. They wanted to talk character and it was very soundbited out," Langer said of the media.
"Anybody would just adhere to anything that was said. I felt like we were being fed messages and they just ate it up," she said of Republicans.
Who knew?
CQ Politics reports Battles for Control of Congress Heat Up After Conventions. Prognosis: a good year for Democrats.
The Mankato Free Press editorial board observes Oil market apparently misused. It concludes:
A call for more regulation of the oil markets seems to be met many times by politicians claiming to be pro-business and pro-free market. But more and more it seems like the oil market is not free, but in the captivity of a few players who not only have the motivation to manipulate prices, but see little risk in trying to do so.
According to an August 6 Star Tribune chart about candidates' positions on energy policy, Congressman Walz and state senator Dick Day were willing to support legislation to restriction speculation (see question #6), while Brian Davis was not. Davis's position was not shared by the majority of his fellow Minnesota Republicans, as only Ed Matthews (MN-04) and Barbara Davis White (MN-05) agreed with him.
We'll be doing some double checking on our research on the new Davis campaign spokester before we post anything. Most civil Southern Minnesotans would call the choice interesting.
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