Tony won the endorsement at the April convention by a 195-5 margin over his challenger, to whose name recognition I will not contribute here. \u00a0The other candidate agreed – according to a couple of sources \u00a0– that he’d not challenge Tony Hernandez\u00a0<\/strong>in the primary. \u00a0And then he promptly turned around and filed to run in the primary.<\/p>\n Anyway, while the other candidate has not had any sort of presence at all in the race so far – after reportedly promising he could raise DFL-sized money for the general election – I don’t expect that he’ll be much of a challenge for Tony Hernandez<\/strong>. \u00a0But it\u00a0is\u00a0hypothetically possible that the other guy who is not Tony <\/strong>could spend $30,000 between now and Monday night trying to build instant name recognition over\u00a0Hernandez. \u00a0<\/strong>It’s happened – Arne Carlson did it, more or less.<\/p>\n So I’ll just give you a little reminder, for yourself and your Republican friends, family and neighbors in the Fourth CD:<\/p>\n By the way – Tony is fundraising in a tough district; if you can peel off a few bucks to fight Betty McColllum’s juggernaut<\/a>, that’d be huge. \u00a0 And if you’ve got an afternoon to spend lit-dropping, or an evening for phoning, please hit Tony’s volunteer page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Disclosure: \u00a0I am a volunteer for the Hernandez campaign. \u00a0As if you couldn’t tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have one in Saint Paul and the Fourth CD. \u00a0There’s a primary challenge for the Fourth CD Republican endorsement to run for Congress. Tony Hernandez is the endorsed GOP candidate. Tony won the endorsement at the April convention by a 195-5 margin over his challenger, to whose name recognition I will not contribute here. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,72],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-29526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional","category-mngop","tag-mn-cd4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526","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=29526"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29529,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29526\/revisions\/29529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.hernandezusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hernandez-logo-640x360.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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<\/a><\/p>\nVote for Tony Hernandez, not the other guy, on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/h2>\n