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Priscilla Lord Faris, a new candidate for the Senate, has been following the race ‘every step of the way.’


Published August 07, 2008 12:25 am - A new runner in the race for the Senate says that the Democrats have made a mistake in choosing Al Franken to run against Norm Coleman.

New candidate enters Senate race
Priscilla Lord Faris out to prove that the race isn’t over yet

By Dan Linehan
Free Press Staff Writer

MANKATO

Priscilla Lord Faris believes Minnesota’s Democrats endorsed the wrong man for the wrong reasons to take on Sen. Norm Coleman this fall.

Al Franken secured the party’s endorsement, she claims, because of his fundraising ability and name recognition.

But the race isn’t over yet.

On Sept. 9, Democratic voters will decide who will appear on the ballot this November. (In Minnesota, only Democrats can vote in the Democratic primary)

So Lord Faris, sensing a vulnerable candidate, waited for someone she thought could beat Coleman before filing on the last day.

“I may seem like a Johnny-come-lately, but I’ve been in tune (with the race) every step of the way,” she said Wednesday during a stop in Mankato.

She has until Sept. 9, the date of the primary, to convince Democrats that her local roots would be a better match against Coleman than Franken’s name recognition.

“He’s a turnoff for voters,” she said.

The reasons: His comedy is coarse and hurtful, he has tax troubles, he doesn’t have a long history of public service — or even residence — in Minnesota and is trailing Coleman in the polls by 15 points.

(Another poll has the candidates at a virtual dead heat)

Lord Faris describes herself as a fourth-generation Minnesotan with decades of experience here, from campaigning for Hubert H. Humphrey’s 1968 presidential run to her current law practice.

Franken, she says, has spent most of his life in New York, much of it spent as a comedian telling precisely the sorts of jokes that would compromise a political campaign.

“That’s why we don’t have comedians in the Senate,” she said.

She also called him the Democratic version of Rush Limbaugh and suggested he won’t be able to work across the aisle in the Senate.

That barb comes from Franken’s often-edgy comedy, which Republicans have seized upon in the campaign.



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