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Posts Tagged ‘Al Franken’
"…politics belongs to citizens"
Posted By askgail on July 5th, 2009
I lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 11 years from 1972 to 1983, and I was surprised and delighted to find such a community of “live and let live.” Coming from the east, I thought we had the liberal market cornered. But Minnesota is home to the co-op movement and progressive populist politics–created by no-nonsense people with a lot of common sense. Just one of the many reasons why Garrison Keillor has so much rich material to work with!
Anyway, David Carr’s article about politics in Minnesota is a good read–this is a place where 77.8% of the people vote! Just think: Hubert H. Humphrey, Eugene J. McCarthy, Paul Wellstone, Jesse Ventura, Keith Ellison, Rudy Perpich, Al Franken. Read on…
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