Wetterling withdraws

Posted at 3:13 PM on January 20, 2006 by Bob Collins

Here's the announcement (RealAudio).

Here's the story.

Letting the blogging begin!

MnPublius has an interesting take, noting that Betty McCollum was on the stage, and Mike Ciresi and Betty McCollum are close and appeared to suggest that McCollum wouldn't endorse Wetterling endorsing Amy Klobuchar if Ciresi were likely to jump in the race at some point.

Minnesota Democrats Exposed says Wetterling and her campaign manager's stories don't add up. One says the decision was made last night. The other says it was made a week ago.

At Kennedy vs. the Machine there's this analysis:

With Mike Ciresi increasingly looking like he’d observe the race from the sidelines, Wetterling was one financial quarter away from irrelevance. And while the fourth quarter numbers aren’t out yet, one can easily surmise Patty either lost money or only kept her head above water.

The Minnesota Republican Party says :

"Patty Wetterling has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Mike Hatch, but it's hard to see how a liberal idealist like Patty Wetterling and her supporters could stomach a well-known political opportunist like Mike Hatch."

And the DFL counters with a press release tying Mark Kennedy tightly to the White House, attempting to refute reported claims from Kennedy of his independence.

In other words, situation normal on the political planet as the week ends.

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