Emmer creating search committee to help find running mate
Posted at 2:32 PM on February 23, 2010
by Tom Scheck
(4 Comments)
Filed under: Campaign 2010, Campaign 2010: Minnesota Governor
Republican Tom Emmer announced today that he's forming a search committee to help find a running mate for his campaign for governor. He appointed Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau, Reps. Laura Brod & Matt Dean and PureChoice CEO Bryan Reichel to chair the committee. He said there's no timeline for his decision on when he'll decide his running mate.
Comments (4)
Search committee?? BFD. My guess is the campaign will have a Bush-Cheney moment in a few weeks and the ever ambitious Laura Brod will be announced as his running mate.
ooooooo oooooooooo I can't wait.
It does seem like a non-story on Emmer's part.
Hann is right, Seifert can win and Emmer cannot.
The reasons are many. Emmer's anger, his arrogance, his multiple DWI's and his lack of being a team player in his GOP caucus.
One of the House Republicans told me he boycotted all but one of their caucus meeting in the 2009 session. I also heard Emmer stormed out of the room after losing the Minority Leader's race to Seifert, blind-sided GOP members on the House floor by offering various amendments and not telling anyone first, abruptly quit as the Deputy Leader in July, 2008 and refused to vote for the Republican candidate for Speaker of the House (Seifert) on the opening day of the 2009 session. It is incredible that any Republican with a brain would back a guy like this. He wants to be the titular head of the party as Governor?!
His tantrums at the capitol are well known.
I would ask an Emmer supporter to justify a laundry list of reasons why this guy deserves any consideration. I can see one or two issues, but this seems chronic.
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