Comments on: 3RD CD: LUGAR OUT, SPECULATION NOW ON POTENTIAL LILLEHAUG CANDIDACY http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2007/09/24/3rd-cd-lugar-out-speculation-now-on-potential-lillehaug-candidacy/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:21:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: clam_bake http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2007/09/24/3rd-cd-lugar-out-speculation-now-on-potential-lillehaug-candidacy/comment-page-1/#comment-122834 clam_bake Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:07:58 +0000 http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2007/09/24/3rd-cd-lugar-out-speculation-now-on-potential-lillehaug-candidacy/#comment-122834 Anybody who thought that this race was a great opportunity for the DFL to pick up a seat ought to take a look at how some of its better candidates are deciding to stay away from it. Let's face it: even if a Dem managed to squeak through the general, this is going to be a miserable seat to hold. Whoever wins will be forced to be raising money constantly to fend off all of the GOP candidates targeting it in 2010 (see: Tim Walz). I don't know much about Terry Bonoff, and I don't really care, but I'm not impressed by a state senator in a swing district who doesn't have to give up her seat to run. Show me a Democrat who is willing to lay it on the line - a seat, a career - for this seat and then I'll believe that the Dems are a threat. Simon and Hortman are making all kinds of noise, but it's just noise at this point. If one of them gets into this, then it's a race. Until then, it's an off-year hobby for Bonoff. Anybody who thought that this race was a great opportunity for the DFL to pick up a seat ought to take a look at how some of its better candidates are deciding to stay away from it. Let’s face it: even if a Dem managed to squeak through the general, this is going to be a miserable seat to hold. Whoever wins will be forced to be raising money constantly to fend off all of the GOP candidates targeting it in 2010 (see: Tim Walz).

I don’t know much about Terry Bonoff, and I don’t really care, but I’m not impressed by a state senator in a swing district who doesn’t have to give up her seat to run. Show me a Democrat who is willing to lay it on the line – a seat, a career – for this seat and then I’ll believe that the Dems are a threat. Simon and Hortman are making all kinds of noise, but it’s just noise at this point. If one of them gets into this, then it’s a race. Until then, it’s an off-year hobby for Bonoff.

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