Requests

Posted at 3:34 PM on June 12, 2006 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)

Jeff at Bachmann vs. Wetterling asks if I had a copy of Patty Wetterling's speech at the DFL state convention. I dug around a bit and with Midday's help, found a raw feed on DAT, and encoded it. Here it is. Also added it to her page on Campaign 2006.

Speaking of Bachmann, VP Dick Cheney is coming to town to raise some cash for her according to the Associated Press.

Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to appear at a fundraiser on Bachmann's behalf on June 26 in Excelsior, according to an invitation to the event obtained by The Associated Press.

Excelsior? That's in the 3rd District.

I also stumbled across a speech given Saturday at the convention by Tim Walz, who's running against Gil Gutknecht. And I encoded that also. Here.

And I also found Keith Ellison's speech and that's here. Interesting note: in introducing Ellison and announcing how Ellison has unified the party, DFL party boss Brian Melendez said "there are a few exceptions, but we'll take care of them."

By the way, I didn't hear any reference to Collin Peterson while I was monitoring things. Maybe some of you reading this were there. Are they still treating him like poison?

Comments (5)

Many thanks.

Posted by Jeff | June 12, 2006 3:46 PM

If my memory serves me right is this not the second visit by the VP to the Lake Minnetonka area in 2 months? I was stopped on Lake Minnetonka a few weeks back saying a bay was closed do to dignitaries being in town, assuming it was the VP.

Posted by Kyle | June 13, 2006 2:14 AM

Cheney's last visit was the raise the big bucks for Kennedy, though, who is running statewide. I guess Excelsior is where the person who's hosting the fundraiser lives. I guess there's nobody who lives in the 6th District with the nice digs.

Posted by Bob Collins | June 13, 2006 7:54 AM

I've got a request. Is the 2006 GOP platform available? You posted the DFL pdf, but I can only find the 2004 platform at mngop.com. I found one ap wire that listed some changes, but I was hoping to get my hands on the official copy.

Posted by Justin C. Adams | June 13, 2006 9:42 AM

Fundraiser picture of Bachmann and Cheney here

Posted by Avidor | June 13, 2006 9:54 AM

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