Excellent analysis!!!!
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From: "Andy Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: history
> Perpich was the appointed (unelected) incumbent in 1978 when after Wendy
> Anderson struck his deal with Perpich, then Lt. Gov., to resign the
> governorship, raising Perpich to Governor in exchange for Perpich
appointing
> him to the US Senate seat vacated by Mondale's election to the Vice
> Presidency in 1976.
>
> The 1978 election became notorious as the Minnesota Massacre because the
DFL
> was rousted in all three major statewide offices: both US Senate seats and
> the Governor's office. Hubert Humphrey had died and his wife, Muriel had
> been appointed to fill the seat until the next regular election. She
> demurred at actually running to fill his remaining term, so both Senate
> seats came up for election in 1978.
>
> Anderson's "self-annointing" appointment ruined his political career, and
he
> lost to Dave Durenberger, a corporate lawyer with no elective experience.
An
> internecine bloodbath occurred at the same time with conservative/prolife
> DFLer and Leamington Hotel owner Bob Short going tooth and nail after
> DFL-endorsed liberal Congressman Don Fraser. Using his huge wealth and
> playing the 8th District anger over gun control to "Dump Fraser", he won
the
> primary, but lost handily to another newcomer, plywood retailer Rudy
> Boschwitz. Perpich was controversial, considered a little nuts for some of
> his ideas for curtailing costs in government (no new office furniture,
etc.)
> and, when combined with the Anderson appointment deal, found himself on
the
> short end of his contest with 1st District Congressman Al Quie, a moderate
> to conservative oldtimer. (DFLer Tim Penny took Quie's old seat in a
strange
> twist for a bad year for DFLers.)
>
> The DFL was devastated.
>
> Four years later, Perpich came roaring back to defeat the DFL-endorsed
> darling, Warren Spannaus, in a bitter primary and went on to defeat Quie
> after a Quie showed nothing in managing the state's tax policy.
>
> Enough for now?
>
> Andy Driscoll
> --
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> > From: "Steven C. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:55:10 -0500
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: history
> >
> > At 12:52 PM 9/15/2000 -0500, Richard Chandler wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh, and since most email tools will mess this up, I set the font to 10
pt
> >> Courier and it all lines up.
> >
> > Came through totally unreadable anyway - nice try! I think you need to
> > restrict the width more.
> >
> > Here are some I know:
> > 1982 Senate race: Dayton vs Durenburger. The most expensive US Senate
race
> > to date - until Dayton ran again this year.
> >
> > Governor races: (victor on left.)
> > 1994: Carlson vs John Marty. Bit of a landslide.
> > 1990: Carlson vs Perpich.
> > 1986: Perpich vs Cal Ludeman
> > 1982: Perpich vs Wheelock Whitney
> > 1978: Al Quie vs Rudy Perpich
> > 1974: Wendell Anderson (DFL) vs John Johnson (R). Huge landslide.
> >
> > Hey, I thought that Rudy Perpich was governor twice. When was the first
time?
> >
> > --
> > Steven C. Anderson 612-722-6658 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > The Independence Party Candidate for Minnesota Senate, District 62
> > http://www.SteveAnderson.org/
> >
> >
>
