Durenberger (R) speaks out against Republican Party

Viking12

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Fri Mar-18-05 12:39 PM
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Durenberger (R) speaks out against Republican Party

The City pages has a very interesting interview with the former Senator.

Former Minnesota Senator and lifelong Republican Dave Durenberger on the rise of the new Bush Republicans in Minnesota and elsewhere“They talk about freedom and values, but they really don't believe in representative government.”

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For Durenberger, who is 70 and lives with his wife in St. Paul, there was more than a little symbolism in the death of former Gov. Elmer Andersen in November. Andersen was a mentor, and the icon of a different era in state Republican politics. His passing represented, in Durenberger's mind, the end of what Durenberger recalls as a long age of bipartisanship on behalf of the public good. Now, as Durenberger and others see it, the GOP is mainly obsessed with building and exerting power.

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Right, and the same thing is going to go on more. Destroying people and tearing down reputations and whatnot. They'll wrap it in things like "values." There are ways to package negativism that work, but it's still negative

http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1266/article13039.asp

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katinmn

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Fri Mar-18-05 12:41 PM
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1. I read that this week, too.

No one is pulling the wool over his eyes.

A great interview.

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PROGRESSIVE1

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Fri Mar-18-05 12:47 PM
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2. Thank you Senator!

This is the truth.

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Fri Mar-18-05 02:27 PM
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3. We need a new name for Bush GOPers: I propose "FrankenPublicans"

The current crop of Republicans have almost NOTHING to do with the traditional MN Republicans of the Stassen/Andersen/Durenberger/Carlson tradition. Like Durenberger said, they're not interested in representative government, they're purely interested in POWER.

Makes me long for the days of Alan Quist-- what a scary thought.

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dodger501

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Fri Mar-18-05 02:27 PM
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4. Durenberger is one of 2 Republicans I have ever voted for

The other being Arne Carlson in his first run for guv against Perpich.
Met Dave in the 70s in front of the old Prudential bldg on hwy 12 (now 394) when he was campaigning. I thought he was a good guy, liked him, couldn't stand Boschwitz.

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