No huge surprise here; AFSCME, the party that likes its politicians dumb, compliant, and voting for big government, endorses former Senator and State Auditor Mark Dayton, who…well, fits the description to a T:

Dayton, a DFLer, won the AFSCME Minnesota Council 5 nod over nine other DFL contenders as well as Republican candidate Patricia Anderson screened for the endorsement Saturday.

The AFSCME endorsement, which brings with it the campaigning might of the union, is Dayton’s first major endorsement.

“Mark Dayton has won statewide elections — twice,” Eliot Seide, executive director of AFSCME Council 5, said in a news release. “Minnesotans know and like Mark.”

Well, yes – we “like” him because he makes us laugh.  For example, when he closed up his DC office and scampered back to Minnesota because of some unnamed terrorist threat that left every other senator’s office opened.  We got our yuks.  We did.

Seide had said earlier that union members would be very interested in candidates’ electability as well as their history and stands on issues important to union members. Democrats have not won the governor’s office in Minnesota for more than two decades.

And if Dayton wins the endorsement, they should continue this record pretty handily.

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