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PIONEER PRESS: HATCH ISN’T GOING TO WIN HIS PARTY’S BACKING WITHOUT A FIGHT
By Michael B. Brodkorb | March 9, 2006
“The day after Minnesota’s precinct caucuses adjourned and the straw ballots were counted, it was clear that while Attorney General Mike Hatch is the front-runner for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor endorsement for governor, he isn’t going to win his party’s backing without a fight.
Hatch won the DFL’s nonbinding gubernatorial ‘preference poll’ with 39 percent of the vote, but state Sen. Becky Lourey received 23 percent of the ballots and state Sen. Steve Kelley polled 22 percent. Real estate developer Kelly Doran, who plans to run in the Sept. 12 DFL primary, got 6 percent.
The two senators held Hatch far short of the 60 percent majority he would need to be endorsed at the state DFL convention in June.
‘This race is wide open,’ Lourey asserted Wednesday.
‘Forty-five percent of the caucus attendees selected two state senators over a sitting attorney general. I think that’s an indication that he’s got some challenges,’ Kelley said.
State Republican Party Chairman Ron Carey added, ‘The air of inevitability surrounding Mike Hatch is gone.’” Source for complete story: Pioneer Press, March 8, 2006
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