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The AP has a feature on MVP-endorsed candidate Tim Walz, running in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District:

In his first bid for elected office, the Democrat is turning heads as he tries to unseat an entrenched incumbent who came to power with the wave of Newt Gingrich Republicans in 1994. He combines a coach’s beefy enthusiasm with a resolute gaze that shows how this command sergeant major climbed to the top of the ranks for enlisted men.

Republican strategist Tom Horner calls Walz the Democrats’ best hope to pick up a House seat in Minnesota. [...]

Walz, 42, who served in the Army National Guard from 1981-2005, has criticized Gutknecht on Iraq, saying the incumbent has ignored the war and has rarely spoken about it on the House floor.

Walz said 300 to 400 National Guard soldiers he helped train are now serving in Iraq, along with about half a dozen of his former students at Mankato West High School. He said he wants a national discussion about what to do in Iraq, and favors moving U.S. troops to Kuwait so a regional security force can take over in Iraq.

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