[click to enlarge, even numbered sites are on the south [river side] of Hwy 10.]The press release indicated:
Anoka, MN – On Saturday October 17, Dr. Reed will officially open her campaign headquarters in Anoka and kick-off her campaign against Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District. Doctor Reed will discuss her campaign to defeat Bachmann and bring common sense solutions to Washington.
WHO: Congressional Candidate, Dr. Maureen Reed
WHAT: DFL candidate, Maureen Reed, will officially kick-off her campaign against Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional district.
WHERE: Reed for Congress Campaign Headquarters
6110 Highway 10, Suite 300
Anoka, Minnesota
WHEN: Saturday, October 17, 2009
11:00- 1:00 PM CT
* *Media wishing to cover Maureen Reed’s campaign kick-off can contact Trevor Willett at 612.860.6995 or TrevorWillett@gmail.com for more details**
That's right, yesterday.
Sorry, but the email was sent Oct. 15, and caught in Gmail's spam trap. This morning I saw it, hence the post.
Unless you had other notice and were motivated to attend, you missed the open house, as I did.
But if you want buttons, stickers, campaign yard signs, to give money, go there. Schmooze with the folks, see who they are, see what they say about Reed's position on single payer and on public option, in the healthcare debate. Or discuss other issues.
That campaign, like others, would like to meet potential precinct caucus attendees, and to see what people in Ramsey [and from elsewhere in Anoka County] have to say.
A head's up to the Reed campaign. Ramsey, Minn. is NOT Anoka, Minn.
There is a history.
One corner of what was Ramsey township and would have been in Ramsey, is the Anoka Industrial Park, where Thurston Street runs between Hwy 116 and Hwy 10. That's to say, annexed by neighboring Anoka before Ramsey incorporated into a charter "city" under Minnesota statutes. That corner is outside of the Ramsey tax base, in the Anoka tax base, and there are reasons why McKinley Street does not run contiguously from Thurston to Sunfish Lake Blvd. Such reasons are largely focused upon the late John Weaver and local politics surrounding him and others and the annexation.
[Map downloaded, as noted on it, from Google Maps]