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  Duluth: DFLers regrouping after Gauthier drops out of race
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Last EditedRBH  Aug 23, 2012 07:16pm
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News DateFriday, August 24, 2012 01:15:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionMinnesota Democrats shifted their focus Thursday to the field of candidates who could run in place of a state lawmaker involved in a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop, one day after Rep. Kerry Gauthier said he would drop his re-election bid.

Two write-in candidates -- Democrat Erik Simonson, a Duluth fire official, and Duluth City Council member Jay Fosle, who said he has been told he wouldn't have the party's support -- have come forward, and others are considering campaigns.

Local elected and party officials were moving forward on the assumption that the Democrats' chosen replacement candidate for Gauthier would have to run a write-in campaign, with Gauthier and Republican Travis Silvers remaining on the ballot. Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's spokesman, John Kavanagh, said there is no way for a legislative candidate to withdraw after the primary, which was held Aug. 14.
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