Comments on: Breaking: Steve Kelley Ends Run For Governor

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:28:23 +0000

Hey everyone, I’ve got a belly button!

By: Lucas Derheim

Lucas Derheim — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:33:09 +0000

Everyone should take a look at Tom Horner. He is running, and has a great platform. Check out his website @ http://www.horner2010.com

Thanks!

By: ladybelle

ladybelle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:43:54 +0000

Steve is a nice guy but couldn’t do the AG thing last time (remember we have a DFL’er in there already) and doesn’t win hearts over. Either you love Steve or you like him but that’s not enough. His stadium support really hurt him.

By: theoko

theoko — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:11:20 +0000

“he was a good legislator that never caught on statewide in several attempts.”

Bingo. Again- I really LIKE Steve Kelly. I think he would have been a really good to great governor. I just didn’t see him really catching on.

By: amuseinc

amuseinc — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:59:02 +0000

He was a good candidate in a race filled with “good” candidates. Notice how so far no one is blowing anybody out of the water. Exactly how strong and steady is the support out there for candidates when “Undecided” is equal to or greater than the leading candidates? There is a long time for things to coalesce.

By: DJZ

DJZ — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:43 +0000

The House, Senate and President’s staff all do the same thing. Except, those who worked for Hatch, did so because they wanted too and the three I know of, had years of campaign experience. I don’t recall any civil servants on the trail.

Kelley had his shot and it would be desperate and uncomfortable for him to once again leave the governors race and run for AG. He campaigned for almost two years and had his name out there in 2006. He was given the endorsement for AG and could not make it happen. We’re done.

Again, Education or Commerce, he’d be great.

By: DJZ

DJZ — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:53:40 +0000

That fight is over, get over it. Steve has.
Becky Lourey never told Steve she would throw her support behind him. Never. I would know.
Hatch never promised Steve anything, why would he? What was in it for him? His Lt was poised to take over that seat and that was Hatch’s plan, before Entenza ‘dropped out’. He earned nothing promising something to Steve Kelley who kicked him around for being clear on his decision to run in the primary.

And that story of the promised position between Hatch and Luther is bull, I know both of them are veteran enough, and close enough not say something as stupid that outloud- especially to a Kelley staffer. How would you know that? I mean, Hatch and Luther were friends long before that and Luther was one of his closest advisers. How would you know what may have been said to his closest adviser?

I think you’re listening too much to some of the kool-aid drinkers. For review:
Steve Kelley was a good legislator. That was it.
He ran for Majority Leader and got nowhere. He ran for Governor- twice, and came up short, he ran for US Senate and didn’t come close.
Mike Hatch wasn’t throwing a monkey wrench in his plans each of those times.

and save the bi-partisanship talk for 2011. When Kelly was in the legislature, this cantankerous ultra-partisanship didn’t exist. By the way, bi-partisanship only matters in the legislative body, the people only care that you get their agenda done, not how you do it.

By: opus

opus — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:50:49 +0000

Kelley was VERY close to winning the endorsement in 2006, Hatch was successful in blocking some delgates from getting to the floor and Becky Lourey eneded changing her mind about backing steve and dropping during her “concession” speech (supporting the stadium did not help either). As far as the AG race well not surprisingly Mike Hatch lied to Steve the day he got in telling him he would not get involved and convinved Luther not to drop after filing. None the less Steve was still doing well until Hatch told Luther he could not nominate him for Supreme Court unless he had a respectable showing in the primary. Hatch then gave Luther some suggestion of people to help these folks coordinated WITH the Swanson campaign so as not to overlap resources thus making steve battle on two fronts.

He was a good state Senator who took on some very tough issues and passed many with bipartison support his leadership is STILL missed.

By: lojasmo

lojasmo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:09:08 +0000

No kidding. LOL.

By: lojasmo

lojasmo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:06:44 +0000

He didn’t, so he couldn’t by definition. He was UNABLE to garner support.

By the way, if you admit it is not worth debating, and then directly contradict the statement…well, there’s a disconnect there.