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I, Al Franken, Want You to Help Tim Walz

Dear Fellow Minnesotan,

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for Election Day. That’s when we Democrats are going to take back our country from George W. Bush and his band of rubber-stamping, bribe-taking, page-abuse-not-being-terribly
-concerned-about Republicans.

Personally, I’m going to savor every single victory, but my favorite is going to be when Tim Walz takes back Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District Seat from Gil Gutknecht. Let me tell you a little about Tim and then a little about Gil.

A few months ago, I “opened” for Tim at a rally in Winona. We had about 900 people in the room, and I went for about half an hour. And let me tell you: I KILLED. In fact, I started to feel bad for Tim! How could he follow this? Well, he came out and blew me out of the water. He’s that good.

And he’s got the bio to match. A public school teacher, Command Sergeant Major (ret), and football coach, Tim shares the values that made Minnesota great, and I know he’ll do a great job representing Southern Minnesota in Washington.

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Here’s what you need to know about Gil Gutknecht. Gil gave a speech on the House floor supporting the President’s disastrous Iraq policy (he does this a lot, having voted with the President 93% of the time). He scolded Democrats, telling them, “Now is not the time to get wobbly.” Then Gil actually went to Iraq, and upon returning, immediately got wobbly. The situation, he said, is worse “than we were led to believe.” Oh yeah? By WHOM, Gil? The President, maybe? See, you didn’t think that through before you said it, did you?

In addition to being a rubber stamp for Bush, Gil is a member of the Class of 1994. You remember all those Republicans who stood on the steps of the Capitol to sign their Contract with America? Gil was one of them. They wrote, “We intend to act with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace.”

And they didn’t even mean this ironically!

When they had that big photo op, they said, “If we break this contract, throw us out.” Perhaps Gil needs a little help with the “throw us out” part. What do you say we work together to do exactly that and put Tim Walz in Congress?

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We’re never going to get the country we want unless we go out there and bust our tails for it. Paul Wellstone said, “The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.” Join me in working hard for a guy we can all be passionate about: Tim Walz.

Yours,

Al Franken