Erlandson’s gambit
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Thanks to Tom Scheck, here's Mike Erlandson's speech at the 5th District convention on Saturday. (Listen in RealAudio). Personally, I don't think they worked him over that much. Seemed pretty calculated to me.
Which means -- and this hasn't gotten a lot of analysis -- the former chair of a political party (frankly, the last person you'd think would undermine the endorsement process) undermined the endorsement process.
Doesn't that beat all?
Update 2:36 p.m. - Mike Mulcahy tells me that Erlandson has not set a precedent for party chairs ignoring the endorsement process. A guy by the name of Mike Hatch, a former DFL Party chair, once ignored the party bosses and ran against Rudy Perpich.
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