Foodfight in the 6th!

Posted at 3:37 PM on March 30, 2006 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

I'm really late getting to this because I've been... well... never mind. But the 6th District race is really getting interesting among the Republicans... specifically Phil Krinkie and Jim Knoblach.

Check out this puppy from the Knoblach campaign:

Krinkie put out a press release (and by the way, the Krinkie Web site needs to get itself up to date since the last release posted there is almost a month old) saying:

The reason Phil voted against this huge omnibus bill had nothing to do with “Katie’s Law” or sex offenders. The bill contained the creation of a huge government computer database called CRIMNET that cost millions of dollars to implement and put the privacy rights of individual citizens in jeopardy. In fact, private information about regular citizens was collected and stored in this government database, even the names of suspects, witnesses and people who sought handgun permits.

The last thing Phil wanted was for state government to compile a database that would track gun owners!

The bottom line: Phil Krinkie votes against boondoggles and government intrusion into our lives, even when it’s not politically expedient. That’s just what we need in Congress.

You don't usually see Republicans beating themselves up like this. I can't imagine it's entirely comforting to GOP boss Ron Carey. The blogger at Residual Forces, who I also believe is a GOP operative of some sort at the committee level, has also seen enough. He points out that Krinkie also lobbed a grenade in Michele Bachmann's direction. And he has good reason to be nervous since the nightmare scenario for any party is that its candidates pick each other off in the primary, and are considerably weakened in the general.

But it's interesting that the piece from Knoblach focuses on two things (1) the ability of a candidate to beat Patty Wetterling and (2) protecting chldren.

Let's fast-forward here to November. If you're a Republican, do you really want to have protecting children be the issue you want to run on against Patty Wetterling? Bueller? Bueller?

Now, I suppose the issue that one might expect to come into play is taxes and spending. But it's hardly a surprise that Krinkie, who heads the House Taxes Committee, is known as "Dr. No" at the Capitol when it comes to taxes, so you can't get a heck of a lot of mileage out of that now.

It's an odd -- at least to me and I'm not genius -- combination.

So where do these two differ. Enter Votetracker.

See Knoblach from the '05 session. See Krinkie from the '05 session.

Ethanol and casinos. On the major votes last year... that was it.

Don't they still have farmers in the 6th? And is the whole casino issue just too hot to touch?

Comments (1)

What with this infighting, and letting weak assumptions about Patty Wetterling (and about what matters to voters) define the issues, the GOP "appears in complete disarray in the 6th."

(Sorry, I had to say it).

Gosh, and to think Rowley and Marko never had a food fight. Makes the 2nd look good by comparison....

Posted by Paul | March 31, 2006 11:19 PM

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