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Sunday, December 10, 2017

One over-compensated obnoxious lobbyist, and several fog-a-mirror types mentioned as Republican possibles for the contest over the Wellstone seat vacated by Al Franken.

Strib publishing its own online content, not an AP or other news service feed. This link. First - Obnoxious lobbyist:

Pawlenty is now a banking lobbyist who shuttles between D.C. and Minnesota. The Financial Services Roundtable paid him $2.6 million in 2015, according to IRS documents. His lobbying work gives him access to the $15 million to $20 million that political operatives say would be needed in each of the 2018 and 2020 elections.

If a banking suck-up is the best to offer, there's little else:

Other Republicans who could be considered viable include U.S. Reps Jason Lewis and Erik Paulsen, state Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka and House Speaker Kurt Daudt, among others.

Mediocrity gets $2.6 million per year, and that means mediocrity stays at the trough.

Tom Emmer? Really Strib mentions Tom Emmer!

I like Pete Hegseth, giving up the FOX couch-talk thing, running and losing, then going back to FOX. There would be a Schadenfreude to that, Hegseth being Hegseth, with everything that entails.