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The Star Tribune, MPR, the Pioneer Press and the AP have stories on Farmfest's gubernatorial debate.
MPR and the AP have stories on the GOP complaint against Mike Hatch, who has the DFL endorsement for governor.
Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life also isn't happy with Hatch. The MCCL's Scott Fischbach doesn't like Hatch's position on embryonic stem cell research according to LifeNews:
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"Mike Hatch is clamoring to occupy the governor's mansion in order to wage war on the most vulnerable members of the human family," Scott Fischbach, MCCL's executive director, said in a statement provided to LifeNews.com.
"If Hatch cannot be trusted to protect the most defenseless among us, how can he be trusted at all?" he asked.
MSNBC reports businesses will back Mark Kennedy for U.S. Senate. Here are some quotes from former MN Congressman Vin Weber:
"It's a very defensive year for Republicans and the business community," said Vin Weber, a Washington lobbyist and former Republican member of Congress. "Almost all the attention is on protecting Senate seats we have."
Mr Weber said the business community still had some decisions to make about where to direct its support. "A lot of money is being held back and it's going to be targeted very late in the game."
That means the GOP candidates closest in the polls get the whole cookie jar.
DFL Leader Nancy Pelosi is making the rounds in Minnesota.
Brownie rips Norm in a Playboy interview (I'm linking to an article by the Star Tribune not Playboy).
And finally, City Pages has the quote of the day from Farmfest:
"You wanna talk about small town, I'll tell you that I went to a school with 25 students, and 12 of them were my cousins," DFL Candidate Tim Walz says, pausing a beat. "Prom-dating was very difficult."
