Klobuchar to Iowa while Patrick nixes White house bid

[The Straight Story]

Cross Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick off the list of potential 2016 presidential candidates, but add Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota to the Democratic bill.

Klobuchar will headline a Democratic Party "wing ding" in Iowa in August. The Des Moines Register notes that the senator is the first potential 2016 Democratic hopeful to appear in Iowa, home to the nation's first presidential caucuses, since the 2012 election.

John Edwards and Barack Obama are among the past speakers at the North Iowa party fundraiser, the newspaper reports.

Patrick made clear to Massachusetts reporters that he has no intention of trying to succeed his friend, President Obama. "I am not running for president in 2016," Patrick is quoted as saying by The Boston Globe.

The governor, whose stock rose in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, wants to finish his second term and go back into private-sector work.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/07/17/amy-klobuchar-deval-patrick-2016-presidential-race/2530109/

[MNBrewer]

1. oh HELL no!!!

I voted for her to go to the Senate and for her re-election, but will never vote for her to be President.

I didn't vote for her, however, in her first run for Hennepin County Prosecutor. In an on-air debate with her Republican opponent, Klobuchar proposed changing how trials are run in order to boost conviction rates. She wanted the prosecution to get the last word, because she thought that when the defense got the last word, it tended to sway the juries away from conviction.

The Republican Cheryl Ramstad Voss (sister of former Republican US Representative Jim Ramstad) wisely said that the burden of proof is on the prosecution and the benefit of the doubt should go to the defendant.

I agreed with the REPUBLICAN! If the prosecution's case is so weak that it must rely on getting in the last word to obtain a conviction, then acquittal should be the result.