Anyone catch 950am today at 5-7pm on the Gov's debate?

[annm4peace]

I heard bits and pieces. I did get to hear the 1st 3 questions on the 1 minutes answers. (lightening round ?)

anyhow.. i liked Mark Dayton more than I thought.

[Bjorn Against]

1. I heard part of it....

I was listening when they asked about Instant Runoff Voting and the RNC protests. I thought that Dayton and Thissen gave the best answers, Bakk gave the worst. I haven't decided who to vote for yet and when I do I probably won't announce it because I decided that I am done publicly supporting candidates and I am going to focus on the issues. I will say however that I have met Dayton a few times and he is a person who will actually listen to progressives, some friends of mine were even able to convince him to introduce the Department of Peace legislation into the Senate. While I don't endorse any candidate I will say that there are very few candidates who would be as receptive to progressives as Mark Dayton is, he is one candidate that I am confident we would be able to get face to face meetings with so I would be pretty optimistic if he got in.

[glinda]

2. I like Mark. I am not even listening unfortunately to anyone else. He would do a

great job.

[Spike from MN]

3. I didn't catch the debate but Dayton pissed me off royally with his 2003

vote on the Medicare prescription drug handout to big pharma. I remember Senator Kennedy stating that they needed to filibuster it and that he thought the filibuster had a good chance of succeeding. Well, the vote was right around Thanksgiving so of course all the bigwigs in the Senate wanted to get home for the holiday, Seniors be damned. Dayton voted for cloture on the bill and then voted against the bill itself. He did it this way so he could get the vote over with and get home for the holiday but still save face with the voters by saying he voted against the horribly crappy bill which he KNEW damn well would pass when he voted for cloture. If he was really truly against the bill, he should never have voted for cloture but he figured most people don't follow things like that. Well, some of us do. I fired off an email to him that was not at all pretty. I base a lot on principle and Dayton apparently has none. He'll never get my vote.