Ventura all over again?
Ahhh Minnesota, the great land of wrestler turned governor Jesse Ventura may be prepping for a repeat. Minneapolis school superintendent and former state finance commissioner Peter Hutchinson declared his candidacy for governor as an independent. In his speech Hutchinson Claimed “politics in Minnesota is broken.”
Meanwhile governor Pawlenty is gearing up for his reelection campaign and a host of democrats are vying for the DFL endorsement. With an early poll showing Hutchinson with only 4% of the vote many are saying he will have a Naderesque effect on the race, taking votes away from the Democrat’s nominee. With a ready made answer Hutchinson responded to the spoiler accusation saying, “It's sort of hard to imagine how you could make this spoiled system even more spoiled." So what is it? Spoiler? Experienced and concerned leader? You decide this is an open blog after all.
3 Comments:
The reality of this situation is Hutchinson will earn more votes from people who perfer Pawlenty over Hatch then the oppisite. The people of this state don't particualrily want a tax and spend Democrat in the Governors office, but many are less then satisfied with Pawlenty. Those folks now have a real option and based off what I saw in that room at 7:30 AM yesterday a lot of Minnesotans are not only committed to vote for him they are committed to do what they can to help him win.
The Democrats are basically arguing they shouldn't have to be the best option for this state to get your vote.
I know my vote has to be earned, does yours?
What about Sue Jeffers? She recently announced her bid as a Libertarian. Her website is good: www.SueJeffers.org
Right now, she seems more worthy and could realistically beat any other third party..... Not only that, but she seems to have what it takes to beat Pawlenty if she tries.
Check out the website.... good stuff.
For one thing, Peter Hutchinson is NOT running as an "independent"; he is running as an Independence Party candidate.
He will not be a "spoiler"; is there really such a thing? Peter will likely be the next governor of MN.
John