If you live in the Second District – which includes a big chunk of southeastern Minnesota and the south\/southeast metro areas – you are lucky.<\/p>\n
Politically, anyway.\u00a0 No, I have little desire to move to Eagan, and none for Lakeville.<\/p>\n
But you have John Kline in the House.\u00a0 He’s solid, He’s generally conservative.<\/p>\n
And he’s safe.\u00a0 Even the Democrats realize that Steve Sarvi isn’t much more than a warm body to put on the ballot; while he has lower negatives than the insane Colleen Rowley, I also suspect he’ll garner less fundraising from outside-the-district wackjobs.<\/p>\n
Indeed, it seems to be an issu<\/a>e:<\/p>\n \u201cCritics say Sarvi isn\u2019t perceived as a threat in the race, with party officials targeting campaigns considered more competitive.<\/p>\n \u2018I haven\u2019t seen any evidence that national Democrats are taking the race seriously \u2014 or on the local side,\u2019<\/span> said Republican activist and blogger Michael Brodkorb.<\/p>\n Fundraising has been admittedly difficult so far, Sarvi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let’s face it, CD2 Republicans; Kline’s seat is pretty well safe.\u00a0 We needn’t be complacent, of course; y’all gotta work for the guy.\u00a0 But barring some scandal favoring the Iraq veteran Sarvi – say, someone discovers that Kline’s bio <\/a>is faked and that he didn’t actually win four Legions of Merit, his Naval Commendation Medal, a Meritorious Service Medal, a Joint Service Commendation Medal, and a Defense Superior Service Award, serve in Vietnam, serve as an aide to two Presidents and as pilot for Marine One, and have a son who has served as a chopper pilot in Iraq – y’all can most likely look forward to a couple more unchallenged years of good representation in Washington.<\/p>\n So when it comes time to do your political donations, how about peeling off a couple of bucks for where the party needs some help?<\/p>\n I’ve talked with both of the GOP’s “inner-city” candidates – CD5’s Barb Davis White<\/a> and CD4’s Ed Matthews<\/a>.\u00a0 And while I’ve supported all of the GOP’s candidates in both of these offices, I don’t believe I’m disparaging any of them in saying that Barb and Ed are the best couple of candidates we’ve seen for these offices in a long time.\u00a0 They’re both sharp, articulate, with that combination of solid conservative beliefs and keen understanding of their communities that it’ll take to many any inroads in their districts.<\/p>\n Because let’s face it; while this state has been flirting with being “purple” and on the ragged brink of voting “red” for a decade now, we’ll never really flip this state until we can make a contest of the Fourth and Fifth Districts.<\/p>\n And don’t forget the Republicans running down-ticket from the Congressional candidates!\u00a0 We have a decent shot of taking back some of the House seats we lost in ’06, and flipping a few RINO seats to actual conservative control.\u00a0 They need your help too.<\/p>\n If you’re a GOP activist and perennial volunteer, you’re probably used to – and tired of – hearing that every campaign is do or die, make or break, the big one.\u00a0 Fact is, the only places where Republicans can relax are in places like Utah – where Republicans win everything – or Malibu, where we’ll never make a showing.<\/p>\n Everywhere else?\u00a0 It’s a battle.\u00a0 Every two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you live in the Second District – which includes a big chunk of southeastern Minnesota and the south\/southeast metro areas – you are lucky. Politically, anyway.\u00a0 No, I have little desire to move to Eagan, and none for Lakeville. But you have John Kline in the House.\u00a0 He’s solid, He’s generally conservative. And he’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33700,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/33700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}