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Mike Hatch: DFL candidate for governor
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Jun 02, 2008 04:08pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 17, 1994 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The twin-engine five-seater is cruising at 220 miles per hour above Minnesota's Red River Valley, an agricultural cornucopia obscured this August morning by an opaque mantle of gray clouds. DFLer Mike Hatch, a former state commerce commissioner and would-be nominee for governor, is taking his message to corn country.
The roar of the plane's engines is deafening. But whether he's on the ground in St. Paul or a mile above the croplands of western Minnesota, Hatch is willing to shout to be heard.
"I'm the only candidate with any rural connections," he says. "The only one who's come out here and talked about rural development. You can't win this thing if you don't get out and meet people."
As always, he's emphatic - about his DFL and Independent-Republican opponents, as well as about Mike Hatch.
On this day, his target is Gov. Arne Carlson and his veto of a bill that would have boosted construction of ethanol plants and created jobs in rural Minnesota. Hatch will deliver broadsides against Carlson in Fargo, N.D., Alexandria, Mankato and Rochester. A stop in Sioux Falls, S.D., fails to interest the local news media.
Accompanying Hatch on the plane is Andy Quinn, a Litchfield farmer and member of the board of directors of the Minnesota Corn Growers' Association, a mostly Independent-Republican group that Quinn says is not involved in today's trip.
Once a political operative for former Gov. Rudy Perpich, Quinn believes that Hatch is the only gubernatorial primary candidate in either party with an eye out for the farmer. The corn growers want increased economic incentives for ethanol production, and Hatch has promised to supply them if he's elected. |
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