From the St. Cloud Times news brief 6th District candidate Emmer to speak to tea party:
Tom Emmer, a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in the district that includes the St. Cloud area, will speak at a local tea party event Tuesday night.
The event will be at Michael’s Restaurant, 510 U.S. Highway 10 S in St. Cloud, according to a news release from the Central MN TEA Party.
Emmer, a candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s 6th District and the Minnesota GOP’s 2010 gubernatorial nominee, will discuss the Affordable Care Act, immigration, the IRS, the NSA and privacy, according to the release.
The information is also up on the Central Minnesota Tea Party events page, which adds the "America on the Brink" found in our headline, and a request that readers "Come and meet Mr. Emmer and ask questions!"
For a taste of what Emmer's answer on immigration might be, check out our post from June, Bachmann to Glenn Beck fans: melt phone lines on immigration; is Emmer her rightful heir?
Or the question might be about the speaker the CMTP is hosting next week.
For ourselves, Bluestem's hoping that someone in the blue-helmet-obsessed chapter asks Tom about Agenda 21--perhaps about conservation grazing--that someone other than a progressive organization or party tracker gets video of that for us to share with you.
On the other hand, when the DCCC/DFL/ABM shares theirs with MnPublius, we will so give you a link to that.
In other news, the St. Cloud Times' Mark Sommerhauser reports in the Political Quarry blog that a serious DFL candidate may be entering the race. In Perske appears ready to take step, Sommerhauser writes:
Sartell Mayor Joe Perske, who’s pondering running as a DFLer to succeed U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, says a final announcement on his plans could come as soon as this week.
Based on his comments to the Times in interviews last week, Perske sounds almost ready to join the fray. . . .
Perske says he considers himself a “Blue Dog,” or centrist, Democrat because he says he’s against abortion rights and supports Second Amendment rights. Still, he says he’s not a Republican because they aren’t offering solutions to create livable wage jobs or improve education or health care access.
As Sommerhauser notes, the district is considered Republican-leaning.
Photo: Enter Tom Emmer, laughing. We laugh too.
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