Remember you read about it here, second.
First, it was MinnIndependent.
An effective female candidate with a brain. What a Sixth District novelty?
And I would bet Tarryl Clark would neither have lobbying baggage, nor try to keep one foot in the DFL and the other in the IP where all appearances would be of straddling a fence between the two feet.
And MinnIndy had 42 comments, so go there, enjoy.
______UPDATE______
I want to clarify one thing. I am not indirectly dumping on Patty Wetterling. She has a brain, and has been effective in gaining political recognition of child abduction problems. Yet she is very, very low key, which played to Bachmann's self-promotional skills, and Wetterling ran a poor campaign epitomized by a press focus upon Jon Bohn's alleged attempted infiltration of the Bachmann campaign while on Wetterling's staff at a time when a better press focus would have been on Bachmann's contemporaneous appearance at Mac Hammond's flying circus saying God picked her to be the MN 6 GOP candidate, and reaffirmed the message after Michele and Marcus Bachmann fasted for a few days and prayed.
Wetterling is a first rate person, but that's not enough for winning politics. Insufficient to get the job done, the job of beating Bachmann.
Nor was a campaign sufficient that raised all its campaign cash at the last minutes, thanks to Bachmann, Chris Matthews, and Hardball.
There should be a stronger and more discerning and subtle effort in the MN 6 DFL leadership ranks to find and fund better candidacies.
I've seen Tarryl Clark only once, at the DFL conference giving Tinklenberg the MN 6 nomination/endorsement for the 2006 election. I was there as a blogger - press coverage person, as were three other bloggers, one affiliated with a St. Cloud newspaper and the other two, like me, wholly independent. Clark gave the keynote endorsement speech for ET. She seemed slick and decently prepared, and since such speeches are content devoid it was impossible to judge whether her approach is content devoid when, in other kinds of situations, content matters.
______FURTHER UPDATE______
It would be interesting if Colleen Rowley or Jack Nelson Pallmeyer would move to the Sixth, and run against Bachmann. Then see how "knee-jerk" GOP the district really is. Klobuchar did well against Mark Kennedy, who'd been the MN 6 rep for a few terms. A DFL candidate, a vibrant, appealing and inspiring one, can win in the Sixth.
We await one showing up seeking the candidacy.
