Sabo Retires

submitted by Matt Bartel

Mar 18 2006 — 2:00am

The Pi Press and the Strib are reporting that Rep. Martin Sabo will announce his retirement today after 14 terms in Congress. Several DFLers have announced their candidacies for his seat and several more are expected to.

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9 Reader Comments

champs Mar 18 2006
1:24 pm

This is the Big One… let’s see how nicely all the DFLers who want this seat will play together.

Kevin from Minneapolis Mar 18 2006
2:45 pm

Probably all we agree on is that baseball rocks, but thanks for devoting your best years to the republic.

I think they could have the primary outside my house right now, there’s a bunch of folks walking by.

s4xton Mar 18 2006
3:13 pm

Hopefully it will be essentially decided at the 2006 CD5 DFL Convention on Saturday, May 6.

stephen Mar 18 2006
5:58 pm

What if there’s no endorsement?

The over/under for the primary election spending by all candidates starts at $8 million.

NoahK Mar 18 2006
6:55 pm

DFLers need to start pushing for instant runoff voting right now – not only will it make the process of endorsing a candidate for the CD5 seat more amicable all around, it will prevent an organizational nuclear meltdown if dozens and dozens of candidates through their hat in the ring.

bjhokans Mar 18 2006
7:38 pm

Erlandson hasn’t announced yet – he’s still considering.

I couldn’t agree more about instant runoff voting, Noah. It’s too bad there are a lot of Democrats who don’t. IRV would help good candidates, be they Green, DFL, even Republican! win, and would also help decrease the influence of big money.

champs Mar 19 2006
8:22 am

I trudged through the anti-war march gathering on my way to do some errands yesterday, and saw a placard for at least one person who wants the 5th CD seat… but I think Nelson-Pallmeyer was all set to go with this one.

bud Mar 22 2006
4:06 pm

You mean the anti-America march?