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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Oct 20, 2005 11:03am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Oct 19, 2005 11:00am |
| Description | Think of it as a game of political dominoes.
Three Democratic-Farmer-Labor state representatives — Joe Atkins of Inver Grove Heights, Margaret Anderson Kelliher of Minneapolis and Loren Solberg of Grand Rapids — are beginning to quietly campaign for the job of House minority leader now held by Rep. Matt Entenza of St. Paul.
But Entenza's post will become available only if Attorney General Mike Hatch confirms next week that he will run for governor and if Entenza then makes a run for Hatch's job as attorney general.
"Just putting out feelers is what I'm doing," Solberg said Tuesday of the contacts he has made over recent days with fellow House DFLers about winning their support in an eventual vote to replace Entenza.
Kelliher said: "There's a lot of things to happen for any of this to make it into the reality stage."
Both Kelliher and Atkins also acknowledged talking to DFL colleagues about succeeding Entenza as minority leader.
Entenza said that if he did run for attorney general, he would not step down as minority leader until after the DFL Party's endorsing convention in June 2006.
Republicans now hold a two-vote majority in the House. Whoever is elected as DFL minority leader next summer almost certainly would become Speaker of the House if Democrats take over the majority in next November's elections.
Hatch, who unsuccessfully sought the DFL nomination for governor in 1990 and 1994 and has frequently talked about running for governor next year, sent out a fundraising letter this week saying he would announce a 2006 campaign for governor on Oct. 24. |
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