Posted at 1:39 PM on August 16, 2006
by Tom Scheck
Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch, the DFL endorsed candidate for governor, named Jon Youngdahl his campaign manager. Youngdahl is taking a leave of absence as the Executive Director of the Minnesota State Council of the Service Employees International Union to run Hatch's campaign. Youngdahl also served as Campaign Manager for Mike Freeman's 1998 gubernatorial campaign and was an advisor and volunteer on the campaigns of the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
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