The Daily Digest: 8-17-06

Posted at 11:31 AM on August 17, 2006 by Tom Scheck (2 Comments)

Minnesota's U.S. Senate race leads the digest today. Republican Mark Kennedy continues his statewide tour. He's stopping in St. Cloud, Grand Rapids and Duluth today. You can see write up from yesterday's tour here, here and here.

MPR's Mark Zdechlik takes a look at Kennedy's campaign. The Washington Post's David Broder mentions Kennedy in his column foreshadowing electoral problems for the GOP.

DFL Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar releases her plans to increase homeland defense today along with getting endorsed by police and fire fighter organizations.

The Wall Street Journal has a story (subscription required) on Pennsylvania's Senate race and the problems plaguing the GOP.

The Star Tribune wonders if President Bush's visit next week will make GOP candidates camera shy.

The Star Tribune has a story on the efforts by GOP Congressman Gil Gutknecht's campaign's efforts to scrub his profile on Wikipedia and put a different profile up.

Vos Verax reports on their blog that Gutknecht and DFL challenger Tim Walz will debate the issues at the Steele County Fair on Saturday.

The National Review projects that Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty will probably be elected but faces a tough challenge from Mike Hatch. Those guys are soothsayers. Check this out:

Just to demonstrate how idiosyncratic these races can be, a major issue in the first public debate between Pawlenty, Hatch, Green Party candidate Ken Pentel, and Peter Hutchison of the Independence Party (think Ventura) was whether state or local government should be responsible for regulating and promoting livestock agriculture. Uh, okay.

Uh, okay. Maybe you should mention the debate was at Farmfest and focused on ag issues. Sigh.

The Pi Press has a story saying a judge says Attorney General Mike Hatch threatened him.

The MN GOP will have a news conference to react to this this afternoon.

Former attorney general candidate Matt Entenza faces a campaign fine.

GOP state Representative Greg Davids was cleared of wrongdoing by the Campaign Finance Board.

DFL Congressman Jim Oberstar praises a decision that delayed rules permitting foreigners to exert greater control over U.S. airlines.

Finally, a group called Americans United unveiled a large inflatable gorilla that will follow Republican Senator Rick Santorum. The group has a Minnesota Chapter that hasn't brought out any inflatable props just yet.

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Comments (2)

I love the MPR caption to the picture with Bush and Kennedy: "Happier Times"

Posted by Noah Kunin | August 17, 2006 12:01 PM

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The more I hear about Hatch, the more I root for Hutchinson.

Posted by bsimon | August 17, 2006 3:09 PM

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