On the eve of the special election in Minnesota House District 19A, the Allen Quist campaign is claiming the all-important Gustavus Adolphus vote.
Not the friendly ELCA-affiliated private college nestled on the west bank of the Minnesota River valley in St. Peter. Not that.
Instead, literature being distributed on campus depicts a dashing young Swedish king at the Battle of Breitenfeld (near present day Leipzig), an encounter widely viewed as the prelude to the Swedish phase of the Thirty Years War.
And as sure as Bluestem is that Adolphus isn't eligible to vote in Minnesota, even if he holds a valid GAC student ID (he's been dead since 1632 and there's that citizenship thingie), we're sure Thirty Years War is about as long as Mr. Quist has been campaigning, though without the original Gustie's success.
Right century though for Quist's beliefs, even though the stead might better be a dinosaur.
We remind voters in HD 19A to get out and vote on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, since he'd have to get permission to bring that horse to the capitol
Photo: Quist's college outreach literature, beyond camp.
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