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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: Lt. Gov Tina Smith to take Franken's seat and run in 2018
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BREAKING: Democratic operative tells @AP Minnesota governor to appoint Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to Franken's seat; she will run in 2018.
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Breaking: Lt. Gov Tina Smith to take Franken's seat and run in 2018 (Original Post)
octoberlib
Dec 2017
OP
Last week, newspapers said she would not run. well well. I am not opposed as things
riversedge
Dec 2017
#3
It makes me sick. She'll have to get up to speed on everything Al was working on, too.
octoberlib
Dec 2017
#8
Roland99
(53,342 posts)1. Assuming Franken does step down
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)2. I want him to stay, too but wouldn't he have informed his Governor?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)7. Politics is a never-ending drama eh?
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)4. Thank you!!!
I get so tired of everyone talking in past tense.
News Flash: Franken has only announced that he would resign, not that he resigned.
janterry
(4,429 posts)5. I am nursing a dying hope, too
Al
riversedge
(70,230 posts)3. Last week, newspapers said she would not run. well well. I am not opposed as things
change in politics all the time. Gov Dayton has done well in MN and I trust his judgement.
Mister Ed
(5,934 posts)6. Very dangerous.
I imagine Tina Smith is a lovely, talented, and capable person. But I don't know, and that's the problem. She is a virtual unknown to us Minnesota voters, and she has no real experience at all in running a campaign. That means a huge uphill battle for her election eleven months from now.
A Democratic senate seat that had been safe until at least 2020 is now wide-open.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)8. It makes me sick. She'll have to get up to speed on everything Al was working on, too.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)9. Well, we'll lose that seat then.
I don't think she will beat Pawlenty.