Don is right, and I wrestled with the possible transpositions of Senate
candidates in 1978 as I was writing. I stand gratefully corrected.
There is a strong Minneapolis connection to this story. Fraser represented
Minneapolis and Short owned Minneapolis. Humphrey's career started as mayor
of Minneapolis. Minneapolitans were not alone in refusing to allow Bob
Short's primary victory to carry him through the General, and many of us
DFLers helped put Durenberger in the seat.
What I cannot understand is why this repeated attack on discussions that
enlighten people on the political history that forms the basis for much of
this list's focus. Someone asks a question, would like to fill in his
knowledge of the political dynamic that brought us here, it makes sense to
answer it for him and many others who haven't the underpinnings for the
decisions that are even now being made at the airport, on your sidewalks or
in Council chambers.
Minneapolis, is not an island unto itself, and if discussions here broaden
occasionally FROM sidewalks and airport noise to give substance to a wider
range of issues and understanding, it seems more than appropriate.
Minneapolis is part of a whole - a whole state, a whole region, a whole
county. What happens elsewhere affects Minneapolis and its denizens as much
as its own MCDA or Park Board or Library Board. AN occasional mention of
those happenings strikes me as a good thing.
Andy Driscoll
St. Paul's Friend of Minneapolis, a great city.
> From: "jorovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 07:35:13 -0500
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: history
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> While David is right about getting off-focus, there is one
> factual item in Andy's excellent story that cries out for a
> correction: he had the two Senate seats switched. So,
> Bob Short was actually defeated by David Durenberger,
> and Wendy Anderson was defeated by Rudy Boschwitz,
> not the other way around as Andy wrote.
>
> Slight Minneapolis focus: Don Fraser had represented
> Minneapolis in Congress for 16 years at that point and
> we strongly supported him for US Senate in the primary.
> When Short beat him in the primary, we Minneapolitans
> were so furious that the city voted overwhelmingly for
> Durenberger over Short, which goes against the usual
> city vote for DFLers.
>
> Over and out!
>
> Don Jorovsky
> New Brighton (formerly 25 yrs in Mpls)
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> List Manager wrote:
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>> Re gubernatorial history, Andy asks:
>>
>>> Enough for now?
>>
>> For a Minneapolis-focused list, yes. Let's scramble out of the governor's
>> office and back within the Mill City's borders.
>>
>> David Brauer
>> List manager, Minneapolis Issues
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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