Franken vs. Coleman comes to the Range

This e-mail I got from the Franken for Senate campaign shows an interesting window into how both Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman plan to operate on the Iron Range. Norm will try to tell us that if we vote for him he’ll open a box of butterflies and each butterfly will glow with a golden light and turn into a job for your grandson who moved away to White Bear Lake. The DFL has to watch out for this stuff. Meantime, U.S. Senators have a lot more to do with our country’s wars, health care failures and education system than they do with the creation of mining jobs, which are entirely market-driven. Those are all things in which Norm has been useless to the Iron Range.

In today’s Hibbing Daily Tribune:

Asked for a response, Tom Erickson, a spokesman for Coleman’s Senate campaign, called Franken’s attacks “distractions from his own flawed policies of tax increases, government-run health care and support for the anti-mining Sierra Club, whose endorsement Franken hopes to receive at a time when the Sierra Club is opposing four new mining projects” on the Iron Range.

Never mind the irony of an incumbent’s campaign referring to truthful discussion of that incumbent’s record as “distractions.” Mr. Erickson is 0-for-3 in his attacks on Al.

For the record:

Al does not advocate for “tax increases.”

Al’s health care plan does not involve the government “running” health care.

Al has never sought the endorsement of the Sierra Club and opposes the Sierra Club’s position on Iron Range mining.

~ Andy Barr, Communication Director, Al Franken for Senate

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