It hasn't worked so well for her up to this point, as she didn't get the endorsement, which instead went to Rick Nolan instead. Never mind that -- Clark won't take no for an answer:
Former state Sen. Tarryl Clark told supporters in a letter Thursday that she wouldn't abide by a spring endorsing convention's decision. That means Democrats won't know until August who will challenge freshman Rep. Chip Cravaack in the northeastern Minnesota district.
Clark says "the stakes are too high" to let a small group of activists pick the nominee. Democratic Party Chairman Ken Martin says he's disappointed in Clark because a primary will sap candidate resources.
I don't know what Clark will do if she loses. She's running out of congressional districts.
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You gotta love it when DFL egos dim DFL chances of success. It's not nearly so pretty when Republicans do it.
The former Morning Program on MPR created a 9th district representing all of the lake surfaces in Minnesota and had some spirited debates on air between a couple of perpetual candidates vying for that Congressional seat. Both candidates, IIRC, were voiced by co-host "Jim Ed Poole" (Tom Keith). With Keith's untimely passing last year, there might be an opportunity for Taryl.
(Meanwhile, picturing Taryl representing the 9th inevitably brings to mind the phrase, "You can't wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.")
I secretly hoped that somehow St Cloud would have been redrawn into CD8 during the redistricting process. What a sweet twist of fate that would have been.
The DFL rarely abides by the party endorsement. Lest we forget that is was Margaret Anderson Kelliher (NOT Mark Dayton) who received the party nod for governor in 2010.
Yeah, taxin' Tarryl seems to have this pathetic need for political relevance.
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