I’m up at the Sherburne County event. I’ll try to do some liveblogging as I can.

Stay tuned. We’ll be doing some speeches before we get to the debate. Oh and Congresswoman Bachmann should be here.

3:00 – First off is a welcome from 16B Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer. She’s going through some of the tax increases (as well as some credits they tried to take away) that the DFL tried to pass last session.

Sidenote: The liberal group Alliance for a better MN was here to try to poach some video. They have been tracking Republicans all over trying to do the work that DFL hacks usually do.

3:10 – Rep. Zellers is speaking now.

3:15 – Chair Newberger is telling us stories about the terrible conditions he has seen in countries that had socialized medicine. He has traveled the world and seen hospitals all over and the dreadful conditions and how in some places, they don’t allow the word Cancer to be spoken because they don’t offer any treatment for it, so it is a death sentence.

3:23 – There are 2 Republicans who are running for the State Auditor position state wide offices. We’re going to hear from them now.

Actual CPA Jeff Wiita is first. He’d be the first Auditor who is a real CPA.

Rep. Dan Severson is also running for Secretary of State.

3:30 – Taking some questions for Min. Leader Zellers while we’re waiting for Bachmann.

BTW: I forgot to mention that it is a really good turnout here. I would say that we have about 100 people. But I am terrible at that.

We’re going to switch the schedule and move to Emmer & Seifert. there’s a coin toss to see who gives the 1st opening statement.

Emmer is going first. I’m going to try to get audio.

We’re taking a quick break.

During the break I had a talk with Seifert. We’d emailed this week to discuss some things.

We were interrupted by Congresswoman Bachmann.

Bachmann started her speech off by apologizing for being late for filling out her application for the Nobel prize.

4:40 – Bachmann gave a great speech and took some questions. She talked about her House Call as well as how the right is finally fighting back.

We’re now going to the Q & A for Emmer & Seifert.

I’m going to need to hit the road pretty quick here. We were supposed to adjourn at 4:45.

On one of the questions, we saw a differe3nce. The question was about supporting term limits. Emmer said absolutely and that he will introduce an amendment again. Seifert said that he likes the idea but also pointed out how you will loose some good Republicans. Also pointing out how as Gov. he wouldn’t have a say since Amendments don’t go to the Guv for a signature.

5:00 – I’m going to have to bail now.

Summary, Emmer & Seifert are pretty even on the issues, there may be some differences on details, but the stand out difference is the passion.

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