Wanted: One sacrificial lamb

Posted at 11:18 AM on June 19, 2006 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

Bob Carney -- that's him, there -- is on a mission: he's looking for a moderate Republican, any moderate Republican. Well, a moderate Republican that wants to run against a sitting incumbent Republican governor with fairly high approval ratings, who's got the might, the money, and the muscle in the form of the endorsement of his party.

According to MPR's Laura McCallum, he's trying to get Tim Pawlenty to sign a contract with voters saying he won't be bound by special interest pledges. Pawlenty's campaign responded to Carney in a letter, saying Pawlenty won't sign any interest group pledges at this time. So I guess that's that. No pledges, and no pledges about pledges.

Carney says if he can't find anybody, he'll run in the primary against Pawlenty.

His Web site is republicancontract.com/.

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Comments (2)

Governor Pawlenty will announce whether he will sign the "No Special Interest" pledge as soon as he gets permission from David Strom at the Taxpayer's League.

Posted by Albatross | June 19, 2006 12:35 PM

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I've been to Bob's website before. A very interesting character. Bob's effort to draft a candidate was was dealt a bad hand a few months ago through a CF board advisory available here.

http://www.cfboard.state.mn.us/ao/AO379.pdf

I'm glad to hear that he's still at it. I'd vote for him if I weren't barred from the primaries.

Posted by Justin C. Adams | June 19, 2006 2:10 PM

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