You wouldn't know it from looking at the online editions of area newspapers, but First District Congressional hopefuls Mike Benson, Jim Hagedorn and Aaron Miller met in a forum in Blue Earth yesterday, the first one sponsored by a Republican party unit this year.
The three candidates sparred before at a Rochester Tea Party-sponsored event in December 2013.
It's possible that the Faribault County Register, a weekly paper, will post something in the next day or two, (or will publish something in the dead tree edition exclusively), or something may turn up at the conservative-leaning online venue Mankato Times but we're having trouble finding anyone chattering on twitter about what each candidate said at the event, whether we search by hashtag, candidate name or district.
Mostly there are "this is happening/happened" tweets:
Enjoyed today's @mncd1gop congressional candidate forum held in my hometown of Blue Earth by Faribault Co. GOP #mncd1 pic.twitter.com/GFNNVNLTQg
— Jim Hagedorn (@JimHagedornMN) January 12, 2014
I'll be the emcee at today's #mncd1 forum in Blue Earth so I won't be live tweeting. You'll have to come hear it yourself. 10:00 AM #mngop
— Carol Stevenson (@stevenson2014) January 11, 2014
On my way to Blue Earth for the #mncd1 candidate forum. 415 South Grove Street. 10:00 AM. Join us.
— Carol Stevenson (@stevenson2014) January 11, 2014
MNCD1 forum with candidates Aaron Miller, Jim Hagedorn & Mike Benson kicks off at 10 am today in Blue Earth: http://t.co/yRnLrwaCtv
— Brown County MN GOP (@BrownMNGOP) January 11, 2014
It should be interesting to see how much each candidate raised when their Year-End Reports, due Friday 31, 2014, are filed. Because the district leans Republican--or has in the past--Minnesota's Fighting First has been mentioned as a target since Tim Walz (DFL-Mankato) won the district in an upset in 2006.
Photo: The MNCD1 GOP congressional candidate clown car.
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