Peterson on Peterson
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I've always found 7th District Rep. Collin Peterson among the more interesting politicians in Minnesota. The DFL is glad to have his seat, but generally ignores him. At the national conventions, whenever the Minnesota delegation is having a breakfast meeting and someone comes in to whip them up into a frenzy over all the DFLers they're going to put in Congress (or re-elect), I've never heard a single person utter Peterson's name and it's too glaring an ommission to be anything but intentional.
The media -- at least in the Twin Cities -- hardly ever talks to him. So maybe he's the one politician who really doesn't get fair shake from the media and, ironically, he's the one politician who's not complaining about it.
Anyway, I say that to pass along that I've just finished up putting a series of audio files corresponding to issues in the 7th District, on Peterson's page in the Campaign 2006 section.
Credit goes to MPR reporter Dan Gunderson in Moorhead.
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