Worthington @dglobe: Seifert: “I will never treat Worthington as flyover country" @BenjaminKruse @JackTomczak http://t.co/0cRk8Su00z
— Marty Seifert (@seifertmn) June 5, 2014
Today's West Central Tribune offers more evidence that Republican gubernatorial challenger Marty Seifert (@seifertmn on twitter and Marty Seifert for Governor on Facebook) isn't running against three other Republicans or even Governor Mark Dayton, but Minneapolis and social media itself.
Bluestem first noted this campaign theme in Marty Seifert: maverick gubernatorial campaign totally not about posting on twitter and Facebook.
Carolyn Lange of the West Central Tribune reports in Seifert stops in Willmar:
“You can’t just sit in Minneapolis at your campaign headquarters on Twitter and Facebook and hope that your campaign works out,” he said. “You’ve got to get out and you’ve got to hustle.”
And there's this that sets him apart from the other Republicans:
Seifert said his Republican opponents are “great people” and called them friends.
But “they all live in western Hennepin County and they’re generally cut from the same cloth,” said Seifert, who touts his rural credentials and claims to be the only candidate who’s lived his entire life in Minnesota.
Other than “minor nuances” there’s not much philosophically and politically that separates the three candidates, he said.
It's curious to read Seifert's place-baiting comments in the rural press, along with the "only candidate who’s lived his entire life in Minnesota" claim, since Seifert's new Youtube features a number of Minnesotans set in urban backdrops, including an office.
Rather than place-baiting urban versus rural, Minnesotan born v. moved here, supporters in the video--like the East African-American man at the 45-second mark--say things like this:
He's the person who can bring it, all people, together, no matter what they believe, what different--where they come from, or what party they are in.
Here's the Youtube:
The video's description bills the content as "Real Minnesotans make the case for Marty Seifert, candidate for governor."
But put Marty on a plane out in Greater Minnesota, and suddenly, some Minnesotans are more real than others, especially those folks tweeting in Hennepin County.
Photo: @seifertmn tweeted the Worthington Globe article Thursday morning, presumably from not-flyover country.
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