Senate Tax Chair Tom Bakk registered a campaign committee earlier this week to run for Governor in 2010. Bakk is calling the committee and exploratory committee, saying that a final decision to run or not will be made by the end of the year. According to the Forum Communications, Bakk is hoping to answer three questions.
The senator said he has three issues to examine before he decides whether he will run:
— If he can raise enough money, which could reach $2.5 million.
— Whether he can attract enough state convention delegates for an endorsement, which he will investigate at the 2008 DFL convention next week in Rochester.
— How to devise the right campaign strategy to win, including attracting businessmen.
As with anything remotely related to the Range, Aaron Brown is a must read. He seems a tad skeptical.
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Bakk already has a strategy to win support of businessmen. Throw taxpayer dollars at them in the form of parking ramp and stadium subsidies. If you want “unions at any cost” government and big business subsidies, Bakk is your guy. He knows how to scratch two backs at once and screw the taxpayer too.
Eh. I really doubt he could raise that much cash unless all the big players (Walz, Rybak, Coleman, Dayton and Kelliher) don’t go for it.
It would be a very uphill campaign for him. He’ll probably go for it but I don’t think he will win. He doesn’t seem like the kind of Iron Ranger who can mobilize enough of a statewide base to win.
Bakk’s chances will be killed in Duluth because he ignores his constituents there. A small portion of his district, where most of my family lives, covers part of Duluth. Bakk didn’t even campaign there and doesn’t respond to constituents when they contact him.
Albeit, the are a small area of his district, but the people who live there are well-known in the city and will do a lot of work to derail his campaign.
I will not vote for him. I doubt that he’ll get the nom, but if he does, I will just have to pray that the IP runs a halfway decent candidate (their past two have been pretty solid).