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February 12, 2003

You Otto Know Better -

You Otto Know Better - Stillwater-area DFLer Rebecca Otto bucked recent trends in winning the special election in the Stillwater area. She won a majority of votes in an election that drew less than a quarter of elegible voters.

According to Laura McCallum's MPR story on the subject:

Republican Matt Dean, a Dellwood architect, says he thinks Otto won partly because of negative campaign ads. "My opponent said in literature that I don't care about the public schools because I send my children to private schools. Well I don't; I send them to the public school. It's a very verifiable fact, and it's obviously a disregard for the truth."
On the Jason Lewis show a few minutes ago, Dean added that he (and House Majority Leader Steve Swiggum) filed a protest against the Otto campaign for that claim. Apparently, says Dean, the damage was done.
Another campaign brochure showed a man wearing a tutu and ballet slippers, and accused Dean of "toeing the party line" and being a puppet of Republican extremists. Dean disputes the extremist label; he says polls show most Minnesotans want the Legislature to cut spending instead of raising taxes. He also says it's not extreme to want to repeal the Profile of Learning show-what-you know graduation standards. Otto also supports repealing the Profile.
A man in a tutu?

The DFL are portraying a man in a tutu as a negative image?

Hmmmm.

Posted by Mitch at February 12, 2003 06:07 PM
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