{"id":11889,"date":"2010-03-15T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T08:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hockey-dad-tom-emmer-ahead-of-dem-rivals-for-minnesota-governor\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T08:09:22","slug":"hockey-dad-tom-emmer-ahead-of-dem-rivals-for-minnesota-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/hockey-dad-tom-emmer-ahead-of-dem-rivals-for-minnesota-governor.php","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Dad Tom Emmer ahead of Dem rivals for Minnesota Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S5vcDVK0dZI\/AAAAAAAAKXs\/HfIhfdAcKJQ\/s1600-h\/TomEmmer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ae32_TomEmmer.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>LR FOLLOW-UP<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/minnesota-libertarian-republican-hockey.html\">reported<\/a> back in early February on the candidacy of Tom Emmer running for Minnesota Governor.  Emmer is a state representative from the Otsego\/Rockwell area.  And according to the Minnesota Post he has definite libertarian leanings:<\/p><blockquote><p>Tom Emmer, who is seen as more appealing to the Tea Party\/Libertarian brand of Republicans who have become a growing factor in party politics...<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Now, new poll numbers show Emmer doing quite well in general election match-ups with potential Democrat rivals.  Out of six Democrats, Emmer would beat 4 of them; this despite the presence of Independent who polls 7 to 10%.  <\/p><p>From Rasmussen via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgehogreport.com\/\">Hedgehog<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Mark Dayton (D) 38%  (State Senator, frontrunner for Democrats)<br>Tom Emmer (R) 35%<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S5zN9QinsQI\/AAAAAAAAKaE\/_EBZZMeiEiw\/s1600-h\/TomEmmerHockey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ae32_TomEmmerHockey.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Tom Emmer (R) 37%<br>Margaret Anderson Kelliher (D) 34% (Speaker of Minnesota House of Reps)<\/p><p>R.T. Rybak (D) 38%  (Mayor of Minneapolis)<br>Tom Emmer (R) 35%<\/p><p>Tom Emmer (R) 36%<br>Tom Bakk (D) 29%  (State Sen.)<\/p><p>Tom Emmer (R) 38%<br>Tom Rukavina (D) 29%  (State Rep.)<\/p><p>Tom Emmer (R) 37%<br>Matt Entenza (D) 28%  (State Rep.)<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Though, Emmer must first beat Republican rival Cong. Marty Seifert in the GOP primary.  Seifert is considered the slight frontrunner in that race.  <\/p><p>Note - Emmer played hockey for the Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks, Boston College and semi-pro for the USHL.  He is currently active, serving in various capacities, with hockey leagues and sports arenas throughout Minnesota.  <\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmerforgovernor.com\/\">EmmerforGovernor.com<\/a><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/23d13_7828681836623105417-4025996552468887025?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LR FOLLOW-UPFrom Eric Dondero:We reported back in early February on the candidacy of Tom Emmer running for Minnesota Governor. Emmer is a state representative from the Otsego\/Rockwell area. And according to the Minnesota Post he has definite libertarian leanings:Tom Emmer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/hockey-dad-tom-emmer-ahead-of-dem-rivals-for-minnesota-governor.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}