We've been distracted by the legal rumpus and endorsement challenge (and physical assault) in House District 8B, and so a friend surprised us with the news in the latest Morris Sun that Nancy Taffe will continue campaign for state representative:
Nancy Taffe of Morris announced Wednesday that she will continue her campaign for the House of Representatives in District 12A and challenge endorsed candidate Jeff Backer in a primary election.
“I have received overwhelming support since I began my campaign, and have had so much encouragement to continue in the race,” said Taffe in a statement. “We usually have a choice between a polished politician versus a professional politician and I want to offer voters a new option, a candidate like myself who cares about the future of this community and is not a career politician.”
Taffe said jobs, education and agriculture will be her main legislative priorities if she is elected.
“We need to cut the unnecessary regulations and taxes that are burdening our small businesses so we can grow our economy, and create incentives for people to want to live and work here,” said Taffe.
District 12A Republicans endorsed Backer, a small business owner from Browns Valley, at their district convention on Saturday, May 22. Backer earned the endorsement on the first ballot, picking up just over 60 percent of the total votes at the convention in Elbow Lake.
House District 12A includes seven counties: all of Stevens, Traverse Grant, Wilkin and Big Stone counties and the western half of Pope and Douglas counties.
Minnesota’s primary election will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. . . .
Bluestem must admit to a blogger's bias for Jeff Backer, since his collection of paid Facebook fans in Bangkok and Istanbul and concern about Iranian warships while bashing incumbent Jay McNamar about being "metro."
Taffe, on the other hand, appears to be a competent business woman and community leader.
CORRECTION: Bluestem originally had Ms. Taffe's first name wrong. We apologize and have corrected our copy.
Photo: Nancy Taffe.
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