Hatch asks Wetterling to join ticket

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http://www.startribune.com/462/story/203241.html
Hatch asks Wetterling to join ticket
She said she is considering his offer of the lieutenant governor candidacy but is also looking at some other options.
Pat Doyle and Eric Black
Last update: January 25, 2006 – 1:24 AM

Attorney General Mike Hatch said Tuesday that he has invited child safety advocate Patty Wetterling to run for lieutenant governor on his gubernatorial ticket, saying she'd bring "a great reservoir of support" to the campaign.
Wetterling said Tuesday that she is seriously considering Hatch's offer, but that she is also weighing other options and hopes to reach a decision within the next couple of weeks.

She withdrew from the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate on Friday and endorsed Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar. Hatch and Wetterling met recently to discuss her political future.

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Wetterling said Tuesday that she hasn't ruled out running for secretary of state or making another bid for the Sixth District congressional seat. She got about 46 percent of the vote against Republican Mark Kennedy in 2004 in that predominantly GOP district.

But former Blaine Mayor Elwyn Tinklenberg reiterated Tuesday that Wetterling had given him her word, and reaffirmed it over many months, that she would not get into the Sixth District race. Tinklenberg, who is also a former state transportation commissioner, is the only Democrat seeking the seat, which will be an open one because the incumbent, Kennedy, is running for the Senate. Four Republicans, State Sen. Michele Bachmann, State Reps. Phil Krinkie and Jim Knoblach, and businessman Jay Esmay, are competing for the Republican endorsement.

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1. Wetterling just turned him down and may jump into the 6th

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/217091.html

"Former U.S. Senate candidate Patty Wetterling has turned down an offer by DFL Attorney General Mike Hatch to be his lieutenant-governor running mate and now appears headed toward a decision on whether to enter the Sixth District congressional race.

Wetterling is expected to announce her decision later this week, said her campaign manager, Carol Butler.

"What she'd really like to do is continue her work as an advocate for children and families," Butler said. "And her work has very much been focused on the federal level."

Butler would not say what Wetterling's decision would be later this week, but noted that "we've gotten lots and lots of e-mails, phone calls and feedback from people in the Sixth District."