The Owatonna People's Press reports that the congressman is seeking to expand his share of the vote in Former vice president Mondale dines with Walz supporters:
Instead of a speech, Mondale and Congressman Tim Walz spent Saturday just speaking individually to voters and eating hamburger steaks at The Kitchen. It was part of a tour around southern Minnesota to energize voters about getting out the vote.
“The case is pretty well made,” he said. “We think we’ve made a strong case to them and now we’re just into executing the get-out-the-vote effort.” . . .
. . .As a newcomer to the world of politics, Walz earned 46 percent of the Steele County vote compared to the 53 percent garnered by his Republican opponent Gil Gutknecht, the incumbent who Walz managed to unseat.
But in his first term, Walz described Owatonna as pragmatic, with voters wanting to see effectiveness. He considers the city as a “solid, middle-of-America middle-class town” and believes he can have a better showing here.
“We want to give them a good look and let them know where we stand,” Walz said.
Walz was also campaigning in Republican Dodge County yesterday, as well as Mankato and Rochester. His campaign stops contrast with those Davis has chosen, which seem to be aimed at shoring up the GOP base. Walz's schedule for today, which includes another stop in Owatonna, is here.
Brian Davis was hitting his base in Pipestone, Martin and Brown Counties, with a stab at Nobles County, the New Ulm Journal reports in Davis on the road. He does his usual denial about the down side of privatizating Social Security, while backing away from his earlier, extended flirtation with the national sales tax. Davis would still like voters to believe that the issue only came up once, but BSP readers learned better in our post Brian Davis and Minnesota's flat tax organizers.
The man who told the Mankato Free Press this week:
He also said he’s opposed on principle to the numerous tax credits available to individuals and businesses, something he considers government micro-managing of the economy
was out touting a few tax credits in Brown County, according to the Journal article:
Asked about the record third quarter profits ($14.8 billion) that Exxon reported this week, Davis said he thinks the investment tax credits oil companies received for drilling should end. But there should be incentives to encourage oil companies to go after the large amounts of U.S. oil that exists in oil shale.
And he's touting McCain's health care plan (must not have caught what McCsin's own advisor said about it)
He also favors a John McCain style of tax credit that can be used to purchase health insurance that goes from job to job, rather than expecting employers to provide health coverage.
What does Brian Davis want at this point, other than to get elected? We looked at his one-man head-on policy collision over earmarks yesterday in Davis makes sudden lane change on federal earmarks.
In an email, the Franken campaign tells us that Al will be in Rochester for a little GOTV on Monday:
MONDAY
WHO: Al Franken, Sen. Ann Lynch and former Congressman Rick Nolan
WHAT: Franken Joins Rochester GOTV Phonebank
WHEN: 9:45 am, Monday, November 3
WHERE: Rochester DFL Office
401 16th Ave NW
Rochester
In other news, we don't care whose signs a visiting prof in Northfield stole, this guy's just quite simply a blinking *hole. It's possibly even worse than the Waseca man accused of mowing down neighbor’s corn field back in July. A guest at a neighbor's party, he mowed an acre.
Wags in the Waseca County News comment section suggest that anybody who mows corn has to be plowed, though at least he wasn't stalking anyone. One wiseacre thinks the perp must have been drinking Grain Belt.
The property damage to the corn was greater than that of the signs--on the other hand, stealing a person's right to political expression dampens democracy. All puns aside, we hope the farmer recovers the lost income and Rice County throws the book at the sign stealer.
Photo: If our selfish feline friend can do his bit, you can help get out the vote, too. Volunteer via the DFL or your local candidate. Sign up to help Walz here.
And now a little White Stripes; if this tune doesn't make you want to get up and at 'em, we don't know what will:
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