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JERRY MINNICH and DON DAVENPORT
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Mr. Minnich is a freelance writer in Madison, Wisconsin. He has published
he stores
four books and has written for a number of magazines and newspapers on
lline. Su-
gardening, food, and travel. Mr. Davenport is a Madison-based freelance
on is nar-
ses is for
writer/photographer. He is the author of two books, including Fodor's
le service
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and writes for a number of magazines
and newspapers on travel and Great Lakes subjects.
The Upper Great Lakes region hugs the largest concentration of fresh
water in the world. The total surface area of Lakes Superior, Huron, and
Michigan is 77,000 square miles-an area almost as great as the land area
of the entire state of Minnesota. In addition, Minnesota is proud to call
itself "the land of 10,000 lakes," and the surface area of the Michigan and
Wisconsin lakes together almost equals that of the Minnesota lakes. More-
over, the great Mississippi River cuts through Minnesota and runs along-
side Wisconsin, connecting the region with the river ports of St. Louis,
Memphis, and New Orleans.
The lakes dominate nearly every aspect of life in this area-its economic
base, its industry and agriculture, its climate, and the very way of life of
its people.
Long before the development of railroads and highways, the Great
Lakes provided a transportation system between the populous east coast
and the great plains and forests of the Midwest. First plied by fur traders,
519
THE UPPER GREAT LAKES
525
d and worn
Milwaukee was a trading post, and before that it was an important gather-
Norwegians,
ing place for various Indian peoples.
In the 19th century Milwaukee grew at a very rapid pace, along with
neates every
Chicago and other favored settlements of the region, as the European im-
groups such
migrants streamed westward. The key element in Milwaukee was the ar-
1 centers. In
rival, in 1848, of many German families who, having failed to dislodge
n Europeans
monarchies at home, decided to flee to the New World. These were not,
still lives in
generally, your typical "poor and wretched." Many were highly educated
19th-century
families of substance, and they quickly became the dominant, if not the
innish farm.
most numerous, ethnic group in the city. Where there are Germans, of
it holiday of
course, there is beer (including beer gardens and breweries), polkas, danc-
ling town of
ing, and hearty food. There are still all these things in Milwaukee. Al-
son is "Nor-
though the city's reputation as the beer capital of America has suffered
in recent years, the German influence is still very strong. There are re-
minders of it everywhere, from the Pabst Theater to the Schlitz Audubon
Center to the famous Mader's and Karl Ratzsch restaurants, even all the
way out to Milwaukee County Stadium, home of the Milwaukee Brewers
baseball team. This is still Beer Town, USA.
ristate popu-
The visitor to Milwaukee generally feels instantly at ease because the
hat has more
neapolis and
city lacks the frenzied pace of some large cities and because the people
are friendly and easygoing, especially in "the neighborhoods." When in
opulations of
Milwaukee, don't miss the Pabst Mansion, a 37-room Flemish Renais-
sance home built in 1893 for the beer baron. Other top attractions include
egic position
the Schlitz Audubon Center, the Milwaukee County Zoo, and the Milwau-
a small town
kee Public Museum. And, of course, both the Miller and the Pabst brewing
I Henry Ford
companies offer first-class tours daily. A good guidebook is Milwaukee &
ssembly line.
More, $9.95, published by Northword, Box 1360, Minocqua, WI 54548.
ered as "the
Minneapolis and St. Paul. Many American cities began as military
city, still pre-
forts, which encouraged settlers to live in the nearby protected lands. So
ompetition, is
it was with St. Paul, which was born as Fort Snelling, at the fork of the
onents, phar-
Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. (Fort Snelling State Park marks the
seovide
is one of the
spot today.) As in other prime locations throughout the region, the big
adian border
influx of European settlers arrived in the mid to late 19th century. The
French Canadians were first on the scene, soon to be followed by large
ife in Detroit
numbers of Swedes and Norwegians and, later, Germans, Czechs, Poles,
York, this is
and Finns. Minneapolis-St. Paul became a flour-milling center quite early
cities, Detroit
in its history, and it remains one to the present day. Major plants of Pills-
e justly proud
bury, General Mills, and Nabisco are still located here, alongside the high-
wntown river-
tech plants of Honeywell and Control Data Corporation.
Louis Sports
Running counter to the recent economic troubles of America's industri-
: historic Old
al belt, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have prospered. Minne-
five glass tow-
apolis is a major industrial city, enjoying the latest in high-tech research.
ops, theaters,
The downtown area has been revitalized by the demolition of 17 blocks
of old buildings, making room for new glass office towers and hotels, tree-
nitely want to
lined plazas, fountains, miniparks, and-to make the snowy winters more
the history of
navigable-enclosed pedestrian skywalks.
bit include the
St. Paul, the state capital, is the beautiful and sedate twin, a city of hills,
e Henry Ford
trees, and stately homes. The metropolitan area is full of parks, small
the most pop-
lakes, and recreation areas. In the estimation of many, Minneapolis-St.
Paul offers the perfect combination of big city culture and small town
0, Milwaukee
friendliness, cleanliness, and affordability.
Loyalties here
Education and the arts are both very important here. The area is home
eighborhoods, I have contrib-
to more than a dozen institutions of higher learning, anchored by the Min-
neapolis-St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota and its more than
teresting place
50,000 students. This is also the home of the internationally famous Ty-
miles north of
rone Guthrie Theater, one of America's premier repertory companies.
Park, covering 17 acres; the Walker Art Center, which displays modern
When in the area, be sure to see the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Again, the site
e 17th century
American and European art; and the Science Museum of Minnesota,
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val is an event not to
or whether it comes from enjoying the comfort of a semi-modern campsite with
winter sports, events,
a large groups of friends, the Minnesota parks have a place for you.
Carnival Assn., North
Campside reservations are accepted 15 days in advance and can be made by con-
5101 (612-297-6953).
tacting the park between 8 A.M. and 4 P.M. Mon. through Fri. Weekend site reserva-
led dog races, beauty
tions must include both Fri. and Sat. nights. For large gatherings, some of the parks
Box 2, Cannon Falls,
offer large sites separated from the family camping areas. The group campsites are
ional German winter
classified as modern (buildings provided for lodging, dining, and sanitation), semi-
1 entertainment. Con-
modern (buildings for dining and sanitation), or primitive (pit toilets). There are
ta Sit 'n' Spit Annual
also horse sites, where trail riders may camp with their horses.
inkato. The competi-
Vehicle permits which are required to enter any Minnesota state park may be
" Contact Sit 'n Spit
purchased at the point of entry on a daily or annual basis. Fees are also charged
for camping and for certain other services, such as boat, canoe, and ski rentals, de-
1 fishing contest held
pending on availability. For all the information you'll need about Minnesota's state
utch Thompson, Box
parks, write to the Dept. of Natural Resources Information Center, Box 40, DNR
Parade, mid-month,
Building, 500 Lafayette Rd., St. Paul, MN 55156-4040 (612-296-4776, in the Twin
ion draws more than
Cities; 800-652-9747, in the rest of Minnesota; or 800-328-1461 nationwide). You
gree of Honor Bldg.,
may receive a state park guide, maps and individual guides to any of the 64 parks,
Pines Folk Fest, Col-
information on group camping, and other valuable information. The state park
3-2594/253-3620 for
guide lists all 64 parks and notes 28 special features for each of them.
imphrey Metrodome.
Chippewa National Forest covers millions of acres of north central Minnesota.
There are many trails in this forest, some with campsites for backpackers. Back-
several other commu-
packers, however, may camp anywhere within the forest. Maps and other trail infor-
Hanley Falls. Annual
mation are available from the Chippewa National Forest, Supervisor's Office, Cass
Scottish Country Fair,
Lake, MN 56633 (218-335-2226).
e. Call 612-696-6239
Superior National Forest covers an extensive area of northeast Minnesota and
includes the popular Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Camping is permitted only at
parades. Third week.
designated campsites on some trails; others allow camping anywhere more than
573 (218-346-6370).
100 feet from water. Trails within the Boundary Waters area require permits for
'ove (612-459-8442).
both day and overnight use. For maps, permits, and other information, contact the
of the largest outdoor
U.S. Forest Service, Superior National Forest, Box 338, Duluth, MN 55801
154-3079.
(218-727-6692; ask for the Forest Service).
th, at the State Fair-
In addition to state and federal campgrounds, there are hundreds of private
stival, mid-month, in
campgrounds throughout Minnesota, many featuring amenities and services not
43. Muskie Days, 2nd
available at public grounds. For a list, write to the Minnesota Assn. of Campground
ces. Write Box 268,
Owners, 1000 E. 146th St., Suite 121G, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612-432-2228).
482). Minnesota State
FISHING AND HUNTING. From its deep crystal lakes to its gentle streams,
2-2200). Uptown Art
Minnesota offers more waters, and more kinds of fishing, than any other place in
America. Lunker walleye, acrobatic bass, trophy pike, world-class muskies, magnif-
imes Gang bank rob-
icent trout-they're all here. Each year, more than a million anglers await the mid-
for
rthfield, MN 55057
May opening of walleye season. On Memorial Day weekend, bass anglers swing
humor
into action. And the arrival of muskie season in June brings forth thousands of dedi-
es, apple ball, contact
cated trophy hunters.
82. Oktoberfest, New
Minnesota is definitely walleye country, where lunkers of ten pounds or more
are not uncommon. The best-known walleye waters are lakes Millie Lacs, Leech,
'S, in Madison. Your
Winnibigoshish, Upper Red, and Lake of the Woods, and the Mississippi, and St.
itefish Capital of the
Louis rivers. The Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources insures the walleye popula-
tion by stocking more than a quarter-billion fingerlings and fry each year.
istoric homes feature
An index to more than 3,500 Minnesota lake maps is available from the Minneso-
Mariann Reid, Mur-
ta State Documents Center, 117 University Ave., St. Paul, MN 55135. Maps are
445-6900). Victorian
$3 each, plus 6% sales tax and $1.50 postage and handling. Several free trout stream
S, holiday festivities
information guides are available on a county-by-county basis from the Minnesota
med interpreters and
Office of Tourism, 250 Skyway Level, 375 Jackson St., St. Paul, MN 55101.
g, as they were prac-
Fishing licenses are sold by each County Auditor and his or her agents (resort
ontact Forest History
operators, bait dealers, sporting goods stores, etc.) and a synopsis of fishing laws
is delivered with each license.
Big game opportunities lie awaiting in the Minnesota wilderness, where deer,
problem in Minneso-
es the living easy-on
moose, bear, and elk may be taken in season. Small game birds include quail, grouse,
backcountry solitude
pheasants, ducks, and geese. For further information on hunting rules, regulations,
squirrel for company,
and license fees, write the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, Information Cen-
ter, 500 Lafayette Rd., Box 40, St. Paul, MN 55146.
Enviro Courself we can "seapture
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anding space exhibits. The Minnesota Zoo houses more
favorite food of lake trout-had expanded wildly in Lake Michigan. To
als and 2,000 varieties of plants.
control the alewives, coho salmon were stocked in the mid-1960s.
Today there is a careful, government-controlled balance between com-
Great Lakes
mercial and recreational fishing on the Great Lakes. Commercial fishing,
if not thriving, is at least surviving, on catches of yellow perch, whitefish,
50 years, the history of fishing in the western Great Lakes
and chub. Salmon and lake trout are reserved for sport fishermen.
f legislative battles, court trials, and sharp accusations.
Sport fishing in the Great Lakes today is an angler's dream come true.
hermen maintain that government regulation deprives
Six species of trout and salmon are available in addition to yellow perch,
ood. Sport anglers complain that the greed of the commer-
uining fishing here forever. Both sometimes grumble that
thrill of a lifetime, for, if these fish have any one thing in common, it's humor?
walleye, and smallmouth bass. Catching a lake trout or salmon can be the
;hts are unfair to the rest of the population. And the federal
size. Trophy fish are the star attraction, but they aren't the only thing
ments-not to mention the Canadian national and provin-
drawing people to the Great Lakes. Trolling, surf casting, and stream, pier, fishing
s-are caught somewhere in the middle. This controversy
and breakwater fishing are popular choices, each with its own appeal. Dip- joke &
be resolved in the near future.
ping for smelt is also popular in the spring.
eoples who lived on the shores of the lakes depended on
revisit the one
food source at all seasons of the year. Fishing with nets
The Call of the Wild
that got axed in
y easily harvested enough whitefish, sturgeon, and trout
coleman
amilies. The early French fur traders and missionaries also
Most visitors come to the Upper Great Lakes not to experience urban
speech;
ly on fish from Huron, Michigan, and Superior.
life but to escape it. And here, particularly on the southern and western
I for trouble began around 1830, when some of the first
"measured
shores of Lake Superior, is perhaps the ultimate place to get far, far away.
ers tapped into the wealth to be derived from the lake fish
between
There are hundreds of thousands of acres that have not changed basically
and shipped to urban markets. The first commercial fish-
since the first Europeans set foot on our Atlantic shores. Here you can
the eyes"
vas established on Lake Michigan, at Two Rivers. Three
hear the call of the loon, experience the soft bed of a primeval forest, go
ed fish at a number of Lake Michigan stations, salted them,
socolor
fishing all day and see a moose but not another person, or go backpacking
hem to markets in Detroit. Soon they were packing 2,000
in the woods and find nothing but yourself.
early. Later in the 1830s, as the immigration wave began,
Fortunately, too, both the federal and the state governments have pre-
succulent whitefish grew along with it. More commercial
served many of these acres and made them more accessible for those of
d the industry, selling to urban markets in Milwaukee and
us who enjoy at least a minimum degree of comfort and safety. There are
wholesalers redistributed the fish by rail to the entire Mid-
bears here. There are wolves. When visiting these northern reaches, the
on the fish population increased.
first thing to remember is that you are invading nature's preserve. You
icago markets alone were handling 12 million pounds of
are a visitor, and there are rules to be followed, for your own safety as
still the demand outstripped the supply. The pressure in-
well as for the preservation of the land.
years later, more than 23 million pounds-mostly the fa-
Isle Royale National Park. To get to the park you leave your car and
-were removed from Lake Michigan alone. By this time
take a ferry to Isle Royale either from Duluth, Minnesota, or from Hough-
net was in use and gill-net steamers were a frequent sight
ton or Copper Harbor, Michigan. Any of these ferries will deposit you
By 1885, more than 1,400 commercial fishing boats were
at Rock Harbor Lodge, on the eastern tip of the island.
Michigan and the market area had extended to the east
The lodge is the only one there, and the rates are not cheap, but from
to the west. Sturgeon-formerly considered a trash fish—
this outpost of civilization you can explore one of America's great natural
r their eggs, which when processed into caviar were in de-
preserves. Isle Royale is the largest island in Lake Superior, 45 miles long
out the country and in Europe.
and 9 miles wide, with 99 percent of it wilderness. Here you will find acres
ut this time that the whitefish population began to decline.
of pine and hardwood forests, wildflowers, jagged bluffs along the shore-
il fisheries, however, merely filled the void by catching more
line, and all the rocks you will ever hope to see. You will be sharing all
ng. The last great year of commercial fishing on Lake Mich-
this grandeur with moose, beaver, red foxes, loons, and wolves. Once you
when a record 47 million pounds was harvested. All fishing
hear, in the distance, the nighttime cry of the wolf, you will know you
Granseth
ally after that, as governments argued for regulation, and
have experienced the North Woods.
a
voice
rcely resisting any form of regulation, complained that gov-
There are 175 miles of hiking trails on the island, winding through some
the
in its restocking programs.
incredibly beautiful scenery. Do wear heavy hiking boots because the trails
wilder
1, however, was not simply one of overfishing. Cities and
are rocky and often slippery. In most areas, camping is allowed but camp-
e shoreline used the lakes for drinking water and also as
fires are not. Get a camping permit from the ranger station and return
rial plants and lumbermills flushed all their wastes into
it when you leave the park. This is a precaution because more than one
g the lakes. Clear cutting of timber to increase farmland
camper has been lost in this vast wilderness.
sion of millions of tons of soil into the lakes.
A few more cautions: Swimming is not recommended because of Superi-
1930s, the dread sea lamprey made its way from the Atlan-
or's cold water-and the possibility of encountering inland lake leeches.
reat Lakes. This eellike parasite attaches itself to a larger
Boats smaller than 20 feet in length are not recommended for crossing
its host's blood until it dies. Then the lamprey moves on
Superior's unpredictable waters; however, small boats and canoes can be
host. By 1945, the lampreys had decimated the trout popu-
transported by the park service out of Houghton, Michigan. Pets are not
Michigan and seriously reduced it in the other lakes. State,
allowed. There are no admission or camping fees.
'anadian governments at last responded to the crisis and
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Just as beautiful as Isle Royale,
ntrol the lampreys with chemicals. By then, alewives-the
and a little more tame, are the Apostle Islands, off the tip of Bayfield, Wis-
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consin. Indians had fished and hunted among these islands some 3,000
Island View, Kabetogama, Ash River, Kabetogar
years before a group of 17th-century white missionaries, thinking there
Lake.
were 12 islands, named them after the apostles of Christ. In fact, there
Because of the vast sizes of these wilderness area
are 22 islands in the group, 20 of which are now protected as a national
rienced of north woods canoeists are advised to j
lakeshore. The islands suffered greatly at the hands of the early white set-
one of the local canoe outfitters.
tlers, who cut thousands of acres of big timber, did a big business in trap-
ping animals for furs, and dug huge sandstone quarries. A few stands of
Camping Rough or Easy
virgin timber remain to remind us of how the islands looked in precolonial
times, and the rest of the land is gradually being restored under protection
The beauty of vacationing in the Great Lakes ar
of the federal government.
come chance to reconnect with nature-lies in its
Indian legend says that the Apostle Islands were created when the
ty. The entire region is geared to recreation on :
"original man" threw clods of mud at a retreating deer. Geologists say
example, that Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnes
that they were created when an enormous glacier scooped up part of the
than 200 state parks that offer camping, boating,
mainland and deposited it randomly into Lake Superior.
ture trails and educational programs, and-in wint
The Apostles offer plenty of opportunity for fishing, hiking, boating,
ing, and ice fishing. A reserved campsite costs on
and nature walks. Swimming is possible, but again the water is often too
food costs are those of the grocery store, and nearly
cold for any but members of the Polar Bear Club.
These are vacation opportunities available to eve
Visitors to the islands should begin in Bayfield. There, in the Old Coun-
heavy purse is not necessary.
ty Courthouse, is the headquarters of the National Park Service which
In summer, camping is clearly the focus of the f
oversees the Apostles. The park ranger and his staff will provide plenty
cal pattern is to gather together the family campin
of information about the islands, and the Service offers special evening
into the car, and head as far north as possible. Af
campfire programs so that visitors can get the most out of their visit.
and the food is secured from bears and raccoon
Madeline Island, the largest of the Apostles, is not part of the National
Whether for a weekend or a week, the campgroun
Lakeshore. Here there is a well-maintained state park, Big Bay, that offers
leading to day trips to nearby attractions. Ther
camping, hiking, picnicking, and swimming on 2,300 acres. Ferries leave
Worlds here, but there is plenty of nearby entertain
for Madeline Island about every half hour during the peak summer season.
of the family. Historical sites and local museums ra
The ferries operate from May through November, or whenever the lake
minimal fees, and even the amusement centers in
freezes, running between Bayfield and La Pointe. (In winter the island's
priced, compared to those in more populous area:
165 permanent residents simply drive their cars over the ice to the main-
The camping itself can be rough or easy. Ther
land and back.)
grounds accessible only by backpacking into the 1
Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Voyageurs National Park. Picture
are those-including hundreds of private campgro
yourself gliding along a silent stream in your canoe, with only the sounds
modern convenience: showers, restaurants, amusen
of your paddle and of the wilderness breaking the silence. This is prime
TV for the family RV. In between, there are campg
canoe country, an enormous area covering hundreds of square miles east
ble taste, most of them offering lake or river recrea
of International Falls between Minnesota and Ontario. Virtually all of it
of them eminently affordable.
is pristine, a near paradise of lakes, rivers, and streams broken by rocky
Color
hills and bluffs; stands of pine, balsam, birch, and aspen; and an abundance
of fish and wildlife. These are the routes traveled by the Indians for thou-
sands of years and the very trails used by the French fur traders who pad-
dled and portaged enormous loads from these waters to the rich markets
of Montreal.
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area, known as the BWCA, is located
in the Superior National Forest in northeast Minnesota on the Canadian
border, adjoining Quetico Provincial Park. More than a million acres in
size, the BWCA extends 150 miles, encompassing 1,200 miles of canoe
trails. It is a protected wilderness area, and boat motors of any kind are
prohibited. Camping is allowed only at the 2,000 designated camping sites,
and no bottles or cans may be brought into the area. These restrictions
are tough, but they protect the wilderness and offer a kind of primitive
recreation not found in many places.
Voyageurs National Park is located on the Canadian border just east
of International Falls. It is a waterbased park open to motorized boats
as well as canoes. There are 30 lakes within its borders, separated by forest-
ed rocky knobs and ridges. Canoeists share the lakes with fishing boats,
houseboats, runabouts, cabin cruisers, and sailboats. Kabetogama Penin-
sula, the center of the park, can be reached only by water or air, and both
water routes involve short portages. There are about 100 designated camp-
sites on islands and on lakeshores in the park. Access to the park is from
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Candare Peterson (612)641-0287
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Combined Speech
Vicki and I have campaigned now
for 18 months. It has been a
humbling experience. I have been
moved by you and I have learned
from you.
You have lifted my spirits, tested
my ideas and given me great
confidence to meet the task ahead.
To all the people who have
supported my campaign to all the
people who believe in what we are
trying to do...our message is this:
We will not let you down.
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Working together, we will make
Minnesota great again.
Our task begins right here and
now. Victory in November starts
with unity in June.
I won't waste that precious time
criticizing my fellow Republicans.
Like Rudy Boschwitz and Vin
Weber, I am an 11th
Commandment Republican. Rudy
Perpich and the DFL are our focus.
The campaign to return Minnesota
to greatness starts today and it
must start with our party united
behind the gubernatorial candidate
who can win in September and in
November. A candidate who
SEP 14 '90 15:39
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values our party's endorsement
and endorses our party's values.
I believe I am that candidate and I
am asking for your endorsement
today.
Let me address your endorsement
head-on. Some Republicans who
should know better want to
belittle your endorsement. I-R
endorsement is a millstone, they
say.
I say nonsense. Tomorrow you
will endorse Rudy Boschwitz. -
Any convention that endorses Rudy
Boschwitz is good enough for me.
Those who dismiss your
endorsement haven't been with me
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in your homes, your schools and
your churches they weren't with
you at your precinct
caucuses they didn't take time to
visit at your BPOU and District
conventions. And that's too bad.
Because if they had, they would
have seen people who are the
future of our
state. They would have heard a
commitment to the values of
family, education and life that I
am proud to endorse.
The Minnesota Independent-
Republican Party can
accommodate a Dave Printy, Jon
Grunseth and an Arne Carlson
because there is a common thread
SEP 14 '90 15:40
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that unites us all: respect for the
person and a commitment to turn
first to the individual for
solutions. We are not anti-
government. Rather, we believe in
a government that has limits,
purpose and direction.
We have been taught that
Minnesotans are tough and proud,
but kind and generous. We have
grown up watching a succession
of political leaders like Elmer
Anderson, Harold LeVander, Dave
Durenberger, Rudy Boschwitz and
Vin Weber lead us with a sense of
pride, destiny and purpose.
I entered this race out of the
sense that we can do better. That
we can return to the Minnesota
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tradition of excellence in
leadership.
For over a year now, I have
traveled our state, listening to
men and women from all walks of
life who share my concern and my
sense of frustration that
somehow Minnesota has become
rudderless.
The message you have sent me is
that you believe Minnesota needs
new leadership. Leadership that
is strong. Leadership that listens.
And leadership that serves with a
sense of compassion.
I truly believe we are graced with
a wonderful people and resources.
And that the privilege of being
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Governor is a stewardship of
trust.
The focus of my campaign is on a
vision of Minnesota that starts
with change in the governor's
office, in the legislature and in
city halls and county board rooms
across our state change from the
DFL politics of cronyism to the
Republican celebration of the
individual.
The challenge before us is not an
easy one. From the day he was
elected eight years ago, Rudy
Perpich never stopped
campaigning and his campaign
promises and political favors have
been at the expense of our tax
dollars. Starting today we have
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less that five months to make up
for eight years of the Rudy
Perpich politics of favoritism.
The measures of Rudy Perpich's
failures are the families on Third
Avenue in south Minneapolis who
can't enjoy their yards on these
summer evenings for fear of drug
dealers operating in the open with
virtual impunity.
The parents of kids throughout the
state who know that their
children are being shortchanged by
an education system that
measures achievement more by
mandates than test scores.
The farm family in Olmstead
County who can drive to one of the
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world's greatest institutions of
medicine, yet can't afford the cost
of basic health care because the
DFL rejected a Republican-
sponsored measure to make health
care affordable to Minnesotans.
We are bound by the limits of Rudy
Perpich's imagination tied down
by a mentality that puts form over
substance.
Traveling the state, reaffirmed in
me the values that I am proud to
carry with me; that define me as a
Republican.
These are the values and issues I
have heard in every corner of our
state, over coffee with two--
three Republicans in a farm
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kitchen, in precinct caucuses at a
suburban elementary school and in
the hallways of the Duluth Civic
Center.
- If we place our trust in
parents and not the State
Department of Education, we will
have better education for our
children.
- If we unshackle our
businesses, we will create new
opportunities---not just service
jobs, but careers.
- If we respect human life, we
will be a stronger people.
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- If we let our farmers
compete in the open market, we
will feed the world.
- If we protect our states
natural environment we will
recapture the heritage of Teddy
Roosevelt.
Recently President Gorbachev
treated all of us to the
international spotlight.
Unfortunately, before he came and
after he left we still have Rudy
Perpich.
Yes, it's great to be on center
stage for the country and even the
world. But that's entertainment,
not public policy. The problem is
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that Rudy Perpich can't tell the
difference between leadership and
showmanship--or even that his
administration is a sinking ship.
Last year Rudy Perpich wanted to
be Ambassador to Yugoslavia.
He tells us we are the brain power
state, that he is the education
governor and that maybe he'll even
run for President in 1992.
President Perpich? Imagine Rudy
Perpichs' cabinet as President of
the United States. Hal Greenwood
as Secretary of Treasury. Jim
Nichols as Secretary of
Agriculture. Marlene Johnson in-
charge of foreign affairs. Terry
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Montgomery in-charge of
Domestic Affairs. Denny
Gustafson as Secretary of Labor.
Skip Humphrey as Attorney
General. And his first
appointment to the Supreme Court
would be Judge Miles Lord.
We may laugh but make no mistake
about it. Come November, Rudy
Perpich will be a very formidable,
well-financed candidate backed by
a political machine well-greased
through eight years of oil-can
politics.
But slick ads and promises of
jobs, jobs, jobs can't take the
place of a campaign based on
issues and facts.
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1990 is a Republican year if we
make it a Republican year.
We can only make it a Republican
year if we have a vision to share
with the people of Minnesota--a
vision that examines what went
wrong and focuses on how we can
make things right.
Let me share with you the
cornerstone of the Grunseth
Administration:
Economic discipline will start
in St. Paul with an absolute cap on
state spending and real, honest
property tax reform. We no longer
will spend as mush as we can ta:
we will tax only as much as we
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need to spend. And Iwill back that
up with the veto and a
constitutional amendment.
Minnesota is a state built on
education. In fact, there was a
University of Minnesota before
there was a state of Minnesota.
We have seen our once great land
grant university fallen on the hard
times of scandal and mediocrity, a
symbol of Rudy Perpich's failed
education policies at every level.
Does anyone in this room believe
that our children are receiving as
good an education as even the
student eight years ago? The
quality of education in my
administration will be measured
not by how many dollars we are
spending, but how well we are
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preparing our children to take
their places in the community, in
the family, and in the business
world. That means strong local
control and an end to mandates
from St. Paul.
Criminal justice--and what Rudy
Perpich has done to justice with
his judicial appointments is
criminal--must start with a
commitment to protecting the
security and rights of law-abiding
people. Solutions must draw on a
comprehensive program of
education, enforcement and
punishment.
Environmental protection in
administration won't be mea
by public opinion polls, but by
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quality of air, land and water.
And, a commitment to meeting
the basic human rights--starting
with the most basic and important
of all, the right to life.
All this is a tall order, but it can
be done. Who would have thought
in 1980--in the days of double-
digit inflation and interest rates-
that we were starting a decade of
sustained economic growth?
President Reagan and Bush made it
possible in America; we can make
it possible in Minnesota.
But first I need your support. I
come to you today to ask for your
endorsement. My list of
supporters includes some of our
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party's most familiar names as
well as some of our party's
brightest young faces. I have
shown that I can organize a
campaign with spirit, the
innovation and the resources
needed to take on Rudy Perpich
and his DFL machine.
I am ready to lead my state.
I
have held local, state and national
leadership positions in critical
organizations dealing with the
most important issues of our
time. I have served my community
and my party for more than two
decades.
My family and I are ready to make
this commitment to you.
I
wouldn't be here today if I didn't
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have the support of Vicki and my
children. We are here as a family,
asking for your support.
I believe 1990 will be a
watershed election--in the same
way the election of Ronald Reagan
and a Republican Senate in 1980
turned around our country, 1990
will be the turning point for
Minnesota.
It starts today, here in Duluth,
with your endorsement. United,
we will embark together on a
campaign to elect a new governor,
to return Rudy Boschwitz to the
Senate and send Vin Weber, Arlan
Stangeland and Jim Ramstad to
Congress.
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A campaign with spirit that will
swell our ranks in the Minnesota
House and Senate and propel Bill
Scheiber to Speaker of the House
and Duane Benson to Senate
Majority Leader.
a campaign that sweeps across
this great state from the rocky
shores of Lake Superior to the Red
River Valley, into the corn and
bean country of our southwest to
the dairy farms of our
southeast a campaign that unites
our allies in the suburbs and the
cities.
Minnesota will finally throw off
the yoke of mediocrity and
recapture the glow of the North
Star State.
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July 26 Both sides agree to put budget plans on the table. The Administration and Republican
negotiators develop a plan to produce $50 billion savings in the first year and $500 billion in savings
over 5 years.
-- No plan from the Democrats.
-- Administration states and restates its willingness to exchange offers.
July 31 -- When in doubt, go back on recess. Unable and unwilling to come up with their own plan,
Democrats propose to delay exchange until after the August recess. Eighty six days after the President
proposal. called on Democrat leaders to work out a bipartisan budget solution, they had yet to offer one single
August 1 Enough is enough. The President announces he will veto each and every spending bill the
Democrats write that busts the budget, and tells Republicans in Congress that when it comes to dealing with
the Democrats, all bets are off.
Here's a Few Examples of What the $100 billion Sequester Will Mean:
The following are just a few of the effects should a sequester order take place on October 15, 1990:
For defense, reductions of up to one million military
personnel, about half the force, if military personnel are
not exempted. And if military personnel are exempted,
reductions-in-force or furloughs of up to 850,000
defense civilian employees along with a severe degrada-
tion of military force readiness.
For the Federal Aviation Administration, major cutbacks
in air traffic controllers, extensive closure of facilities,
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the curtailment or removal from service of over 100 air
traffic control towers, a substantial reduction in the
number of flights, and an increase in traveler delays of
400 to 600 percent.
For Superfund, a halt in all new cleanups of toxic waste
sites.
For INS, no new hiring of Border Patrol staff and
building of new traffic checkpoints to intercept drug
and alien smugglers.
For white collar crime, a drop of about 25 percent in
completed investigations and about 1,000 fewer convic-
tions. Prosecution of those who have perpetrated S &
L institutions fraud would be slowed.
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For student aid, the outright elimination of Pell grants
to 1.2 million students and a 22 percent reduction of all
other Pell grants to 2.2 million additional students.
For meat and poultry, the absence of inspection
services for about 140 days, thus forcing the shutdown
of many processing plants.
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NEW??? NEW
Administration
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when developed?
Acres
7,100 acres - current
restored new conservation efforts?
12,400 acres - authorized
Extent
Fort Snelling State Park to Jordan, Minnesota along a 32-mile
stretch of the Minnesota River
Established
October 1976, P.L. Law 94-466 Est in '76 - land acq. now
Refuge Manager
8000/12000, $3m funding this year in
Thomas J. Larson
POTUS budget; just dedicated env ed. ctr
$6M-
Staff
25 + employees augmented by a group of active volunteers. school groups
urban -only refuge w/
vis.dr.
Mission
To provide for a diversity of plants and animals and to provide op-
portunities for people to observe and learn about the Valley's
f of refastrots. involvement &
wildlife. Management, planning, and administration are directed by
policies established by the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife
Refuge Master Plan and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Cooperation
The continuing management of several units of the refuge, along
with many refuge projects, has been accomplished through coop-
eration with private corporations and organizations; individuals;
state, county, and city governments.
Recreation
Running, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, picnicking, cross-coun-
try skiing, snowmobiling, ice skating, snowshoeing, wildlife observa-
tion. Fruit and berry picking and mushroom collecting for personal
consumption. Hunting and trapping during special seasons. Nature
interpretation and environmental education are also provided. The
Visitor Center is open every day from 9 AM - 9 PM.
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Over 250 species of birds use the area, either year-round or during
Wildlife
migration. About 150 of these species nest in the Minnesota Valley.
Bald eagles use the area for resting and feeding each winter, spring,
and fall. This wildlife diversity is complemented by at least 50
species of mammals and 30 species of reptiles and amphibians.
The refuge is a green belt of large marsh areas bordered by grain
Brief Description
terminals, highways, residential areas, office buildings and farm
fields. A typical Valley cross section starting at the blufftop ranges
from an oak-dominated hillside forest to oak savannas; then, wet-
lands ranging from bogs to seeps to marshy lakes. The cottonwood-
lined Minnesota River completes the environment.
The dry grasslands are characterized by encroaching shrubs like
sumac, hazel, and prickly ash. Native prairie grasses include big and
little bluestem, switchgrass, and Indian grass. Remnant prairies and
savannas provide a nesting habitat for dabbling ducks, pheasants,
and variety of songbirds.
Hillside forests include an overstory of oak, elm, maple, and other
trees, with dogwood, chokecherry and other shrubs beneath. For-
ested areas on the floodplain are dominated by silver-maple, wil-
low, cottonwood and elm trees. Small willows, dogwoods, and
alders line forest edges, while inside the woods, there is a carpet of
nettles with occasional riverbank grape.
Wetlands in the Valley's bottoms are thick with reed canary grass,
cattail, and river bullrush. Water lily, duckweed, and pondweed
thrive in open water areas.
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First days of sale of 1990 Duck Stamp
The Service was represented by Deputy
Director Richard Smith who said, "It feels
draw record crowds; Congress declares July 1
good to know I've played a small part in the
"National Day for Ducks and Wetlands"
Duck Stamp program. having bought my first
stamp at age 9."
The special first-days-of-sale ceremonies
A crowd of some 350 people attended
Interior Under Secretary Frank Bracken
for the 1990 Federal Duck Stamp. held in
the first-day-of-sale ceremony at the new
thanked everyone for working so hard to save
Washington, DC, June 30. and in Bloomington,
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge just
the habitat "we need SO desperately."
Minnesota. July 1. were marked by the largest
outside the Minneapolis city limits. Regional
Although the day was again Hautman's. a
attendance to date and long lines to purchase
Director Jim Gritman opened the program,
special citation was presented to two-time
stamps and other Duck Stamp items.
stating this was the first event ever held at the
Duck Stamp artist Les Kouba for his continu-
In Washington. Interior Secretary Manuel
refuge and everyone should have fun on this
ing dedication to wetlands conservation. "It is
Lujan told the packed auditorium at the
national day for ducks and wetlands.
certainly nice to receive this award." said
Smithsonian's National Museum of American
Minnesota Senator Dave Durenberger
Kouba. "I did all I could with the talent I was
History that it was a pleasure to speak once
announced that Congress had proclaimed
given. and I'm not through yet."
again about the successful conservation pro-
July 1 "National Ducks and Wetlands Day"
Master of Ceremonies Ron Schara, outdoor
gram. He went on to praise the partnership
and admonished the audience that national
writer for The Minneapolis Star and a judge for
among government agencies that has resulted
policy must be redirected against draining
the 1989-90 Duck Stamp Contest. listed all the
in a beautiful stamp each year.
wetlands.
former winners from Minnesota. For his part,
Jim Hautman. the Minnesota artist whose
He explained that Minnesotans as a group
Hautman said he "never realized the amount of
design of black- bellied whistling ducks graces
spend countless hours sharing their talents with
work that goes into an event like this."
the 1990 stamp, said, "I hope you all share my
others and that's what made the new refuge
At ceremony's end, long lines formed to
concern for ducks and the outdoors. The more
possible. "At age 26. think of all the time Jim
purchase stamps and have the artist and other
Duck Stamps we buy, the more wetlands we
Hautman has to share his wonderful talents,"
dignitaries sign programs and first-day covers.
can save."
Durenberger added.
In a few hours' time, over $3,000 was raised to
help save wetlands.
Breeding duck numbers
remain low
Drought and loss of wetlands have
combined to keep 1990 breeding duck numbers
low, virtually unchanged from 1989 levels. The
1990 count. at 31.3 million. is the third lowest
Don Sager
on record. after 1985 and 1989. Overall, duck
populations in survey areas are 22 percent
Jim Hautman MUS joined by (left to right) Regional Director Jim Griman. Depury Director Dick Smith, and Interior Under
below the 1955-89 average.
Secretary Frank Brucken to sign souvenir programs and other Due A Stamp items.
Blue-winged teal numbers dropped to
2.8 million, 11 percent below last year's record
low. Breeding populations for this species are
41 percent below the long-term average.
Mallard numbers fell 4 percent from 1989 to
5.9 million and are 27 percent below average.
Pintails improved slightly, but their breeding
numbers are still well below the 35-year aver-
age. However. canvasbacks showed a 22-per-
cent increase over 1989 totals and are 7 percent
above the long-term average.
Although conditions improved in some
Dr. Sugar
George Sura
breeding areas, biologists cite the lack of nest-
ing cover near ponds as one reason for low
breeding numbers. Surveys showed that at
North Central Regional Director Jim Cruman welcomes
Former Duck Stamp Context winners Dan Smith (left) and
many pond sites, natural vegetation needed by
everyone to the Service's new Minnesora Valley Naturnal
Les Kouha listen intently as fellow Minnesonan Jim
ducks for nesting has been lost due to plowing
Wildlife Refuge.
Hautman. whose design appears (ill the 1990 Dia k Stamp
right up to water's edge.
with how his life has changed sim i he won
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PROGRAM
Re-Invest In Minnesota, or RIM, was the nation's first state-sponsored
"THE MOST IMPORTANT
program to transform thousands of acres of fragile and marginal farmlands
into wildlife habitat. The Minnesota Legislature created RIM in 1986 at
INCTION OF THE WILDERNESS
the urging of Governor Perpich and concerned citizens. The legislature
provided $38.2 million to fund RIM for 1986 and 1987. Monies from the
FOR MODERN MAN IS THE
Minnesota Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund will also be used
to support RIM.
OPPORTUNITY OF GLIMPSING
The four primary program components of RIM have already enhanced
more than 100,000 acres of wildlife habitat.
FOR A MOMENT WHAT
The RIM Reserve Program was originally designed to take marginal
agricultural land out of production and return it to its natural state for
HARMONY REALLY MEANS."
wildlife habitat. RIM Reserve now also restores wetlands. Through 1988,
more than 24,000 acres were enrolled in the program, including 970 acres of
SIGURD F. OLSON
wetlands.
The RIM Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Program has also been
MINNESOTA AUTHOR AND
successful. Operating under the Department of Natural Resources,
wildlife enhancement projects have improved more than 20,000 acres of
NATURALIST
existing habitat.
Under the RIM Fisheries Enhancement Program, fish habitats are
being improved. Fisheries efforts under RIM include establishing lake
aeration systems and stabilizing trout stream banks. More than 55,000 acres
of fish habitat have been enhanced through 1988.
Under RIM's Critical Habitat Matching Program, donations of land or
money for wildlife habitat are doubled through RIM funds. By November of
1988, more than 5300 acres had been donated, with total monetary and land
donations valued at more than $3.3 million.
RIM has become a model for expanding and renewing wildlife habitat
within a state. But the migratory patterns of wildlife extend across state
boundaries. An Environmental Compact of the States could coordinate the
research and funding necessary to protect wildlife.
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THE MINNESOTA UTERFÜND
Established in 1983, the Minnesota Superfund was one of Governor
THE RESULTS OF MINNESOTA'S
Perpich's signal achievements. Under the program, individuals or businesses
responsible for producing hazardous wastes are encouraged to clean up the
PERFORMANCE IN THE
wastes. If they cannot or will not, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
(MPCA) has the authority and the resources through state and federal Super-
ENFORCEMENT AREA WERE
fund dollars to remedy the problem and collect its costs from the responsible
parties later.
CONSIDERED TO BE
Initial encouragement, backed up by the certainty of a state cleanup if
action is not taken, has proven to be a very effective use of public monies. At
ARTICULARLY COMMENDABLE
the close of the 1988 fiscal year, the MPCA utilized approximately $11 million
from the Minnesota Response and Liability Fund and $13 million from the
THE STATE'S STRATEGY AND
federal Superfund to clean up hazardous waste sites in the state. During the
same time, more than $140 million in private funds was spent on 40
ITS RESULTS SHOULD BE
cleanup projects.
The Minnesota Superfund has also allowed the MPCA to investigate
HELPFUL TO EPA IN ITS
hundreds of suspected hazardous waste sites. Since 1983, the agency has dou-
bled its listings of sites targeted for cleanup. Such thorough and persistent
EFFORTS TO MEET
management of our hazardous waste materials has put Minnesota well ahead
of the national average in both the number and percentage of hazardous sites
SUPERFUND GOALS."
that have been cleaned.
Despite the success of Minnesota Superfund and other state hazardous
U.S. HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS
waste programs, there is still much to be done on this issue. Interstate move-
ment of hazardous wastes is common and must be better monitored. States
COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE
must continue to develop methods for the cleanup of hazardous wastes, and
must work together on ways to properly dispose of the wastes in the first
STATUS OF THE EPA
place. These are issues that can be effectively addressed by an Environmental
Compact of the States.
SUPERFUND PROGRAM
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BACKLENCE
IN LAND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Land resource management in Minnesota involves a number of inno-
"CONSERVATIONISTS FIGHT
vative programs, many of which have become national models.
Wetlands: In the late 1950s, Minnesota was the first state to protect
NOT ONLY FOR THEIR
its wetlands through acquisition and management. Through the State
Water Bank Program, passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 1976,
INDIVIDUAL HOMES, BUT FOR
amended in 1979, and most recently amended under Governor Perpich in
1987, Minnesota's wetlands protection strategy remains the most compre-
THOSE OF THE WHOLE HUMAN
hensive in the country. The program directs the Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) to conduct an inventory that protects nearly 300,000
RACE, THE TOTAL
acres of wetlands. It also enables the DNR to purchase key wetland areas
throughout the state. Thousands of acres of wetlands have been purchased
SURROUNDINGS OF MAN, THE
through the Water Bank Program and through the state's RIM Program (see
page 8). In addition to protecting existing wetlands, Minnesota is restoring
SOIL, AIR, WATER, AND ALL LIFE
former wetlands through RIM's Reserve Program.
Prairielands: As with wetlands, Minnesota is a national leader in
WITH WHICH HE SHARES
protecting prairies. Through the Prairie Landscape Reserve Program, the
Department of Natural Resources protects the native character of thou-
THE EARTH."
sands of acres of prairies, while allowing for compatible agricultural uses
such as haying and grazing. Through the Prairie Bank Program, the state
SIGURD F. OLSON
purchases long-term casements that prevent plowing or other uses of
prairies not compatible with prairie preservation. Both of these programs
MINNESOTA AUTHOR
are unique among state governments, as is the prairie biologist hired by the
state to coordinate the programs.
AND NATURALIST
Farmlands: Some of the most valuable land in Minnesota is farm-
land. Yet improper land management and aggressive pesticide use all too
often result in erosion of the topsoil and pollution of the groundwater,
among other dangers. The Minnesota Energy and Sustainable Agriculture
Program, passed in 1987, is designed to promote environmentally sound
farming techniques. Under this program, farmers reduce herbicide use
through crop selection and rotation, and reduce pesticide use through the
release of predatory insects into the fields. Soil erosion is also reduced and
energy conserved through adaption of efficient tillage techniques.
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Shorelands: With 12,000 lakes and over 90,000 miles of rivers, Min-
nesota's shorelands are among the most extensive in the country.
"WHEN LOOKING FOR
Minnesota's Shoreland Management Program promotes recreational and
environmental quality by classifying each lake and river according to its
INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP
size and shape, existing water quality, existing development, accessibility
to service centers, and future development trends. These classifications
IN NATURAL AREAS
enable the Department of Natural Resources to develop specific strategies
for shoreland protection. Individual management plans are drawn for the
PROTECTION, WE AND OTHER
most developed lakes and rivers in the state.
Floodplains: Because flooding in Minnesota causes approximately
CONSERVATION
$60 million in damage every year, Governor Perpich sponsored the Flood
Damage Reduction Act of 1987. Within its first two years, the reduction
ORGANIZATIONS
program had funded 30 studies and projects in an attempt to revitalize
areas damaged by flooding, and to prevent similar damage in the future.
THROUGHOUT THE NATION
Wildlife Habitats: In addition to the comprehensive Re-Invest In
Minnesota programs described on page 8, there are a number of other wild-
HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED WITH
life habitat programs in Minnesota. The Forest Wildlife Management
Program protects and purchases deer and bear habitat with money from a
RESPECT AND ADMIRATION
surcharge on deer and bear hunting licenses. The Farmland Wildlife Man-
agement Program uses a variety of funding sources, including proceeds
TO MINNESOTA."
from pheasant stamp sales, to share the cost with landowners of protecting
habitat on private lands. The Wetlands Wildlife Management Program uses
RUSS VAN HERIK
duck stamp revenues to purchase and protect wetland habitat. Finally, the
Non-Game Wildlife Program is funded by the taxpayers through a checkoff
VICE PRESIDENT,
on state income tax forms to protect the habitat of non-game wildlife,
particularly rare and endangered species.
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
Clearly, Minnesota's land management programs are comprehensive
and effective. Yet our efforts and the efforts of other states would be much
MIDWEST REGIONAL OFFICE
enhanced by an Environmental Compact of the States. For example, the
National Wetlands Policy Forum has proposed a national plan for wetlands
protection, under which the federal government would impose most policy,
while most enforcement would fall to the states. An Environmental Com-
pact would help states both to influence federal wetlands policy, and to
obtain federal money and assistance for enforcement of the policy.
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IN MINNESOTA
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MINNESOTA IS A NATIONAL LEADER IN
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Life Expectancy - Highest in the continental United States, 2nd only
to Hawaii.
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Drinking Water Quality - Among best in the nation under standards set by
EPA Safe Drinking Water Act.
INFORMATION AND
Air Quality - American Lung Association report rated Minneapolis/St. Paul
first in its efforts to reduce air pollution.
COMMUNICATION REGARDING
Conservation - Rated #1 top state in the nation in efforts to protect the envi-
ronment by the Conservation Foundation.
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE
Wetlands Protection - First state to protect wetlands through acquisition
and management; still has the most comprehensive wetlands protection in
IN MINNESOTA, WRITE TO:
the nation.
Prairie Protection - Only state with Prairie Bank to purchase prairielands;
ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE
only state with state prairie biologist to manage prairie protection strategy.
Recreational Environment - Largest state trails system in the nation; most
COMMISSIONER
public hunting acreage in continental United States, 2nd only to Alaska;
among the top five states in state park and state forest acreage.
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NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
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Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund - Nation's first constitu-
CONTROL AGENCY
tionally-protected trust fund for comprehensive long-term planning and
protection of environment.
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Re-Invest In Minnesota (RIM) Program - Nation's first state-sponsored
reserve/set-aside program, protecting hundreds of thousands of acres of wild-
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life habitat.
Acid Rain Prevention Standards - Nation's first and still the toughest acid
rain standards, monitoring acid deposition and monitoring compliance with a
control plan.
Superfund - Among the nation's first programs with legislative power to
initiative cleanup of hazardous wastes and charge violators for the
cleanup cost.
Petrofund - Among the nation's first programs to fund the cleanup of con-
taminants from leaking petroleum storage tanks in cooperation with tank
owner/operators.
Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Control - Among the first states to
develop state-local partnerships to deal with nonpoint source water pollution.
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WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
Wetlands protection
EPA Region 5 has developed a management team responsible for the
Often thought of as useless,
protection of our watersheds-land areas that drain into the Region's
mosquito-laden swamps, wetlands
lakes and streams. The team's goal is to combine the Wetlands Protection
are a fragile but vital natural resource
and the Clean Lakes Programs with effective control of pollution from
that includes marshes, bogs, potholes,
mud flats, natural ponds, and similar
nonpoint (mostly agricultural) sources. Our waters directly reflect the status
areas. Teeming with plant and animal
of surrounding land: If the land is polluted, the lakes and streams cannot
life and valuable to our economy,
help but be polluted, too.
wetlands are natural flood control
and water purification agents. But they
are being destroyed at a fast clip. An
estimated 300,000 acres are lost
Clean Lakes Program
Nonpoint pollution control
nationwide every year.
This program is designed to help
EPA Region 5 is working with other
To stop or at least slow down these
clean up the most polluted and the most
Federal agencies and the States to
losses, EPA works closely with the
heavily used of the 29,235 fresh-water,
reduce the pervasive nonpoint-source
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under
publicly owned lakes in EPA Region 5.
pollution that is primarily responsible
a dredge-and-fill permits system,
It has funded 99 projects since 1976.
for fouling so many of our lakes and
where EPA recommendations in fiscal
The concept of sound watershed
streams. Under the new clean-water
1987 saved 689 acres of wetlands from
management under the Clean Lakes
act of 1987, a National Nonpoint-
destruction. Even when the demise of
Program was amply demonstrated at
Source Program has been created. All
wetlands is unavoidable, EPA insists
Lake L-Aqua-Na, IL, and Big Stone
six regional States have adopted this
that offsets be made. In 1987. for
Lake, MN, recently. These two projects
program, modeled in large part on
example, the Illinois Tollway Authority
were enormously successful not only
Wisconsin's own pioneering efforts.
agreed to replace destroyed wetland
because all the right things were done
EPA's Great Lakes National Program
acreage with other land of approximate
(erosion and animal waste control,
Office has also developed and put into
ecological value. In addition, it bought
stream-bank stabilization) but also
practice the U.S. Phosphorus Reduction
and donated a 20-acre prairie to the
because all citizens were 100 percent
Plan under a new agreement with
Du Page Couty Forest Preserve and
behind them.
Canada. (See "Our Great Lakes"
relocated certain rare Illinois plant
section of this report)
species that would have otherwise
been lost.
So far, Michigan is the only State in
the country approved by EPA to run the
wetlands program, but talks are under
way with Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Minnesota took a major environmental
step forward by officially placing under
protection all 22 of its calcareous (lime-
stone) fens, which are low lands
partially underwater.
A stream bank stabilized with rocks helps
prevent erosion and sedimentation on
an Indiana farm.
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INTIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE
THROUGH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Environmental excellence is best achieved when people understand
how their behavior affects the quality of the environment.
"TO ADEQUATELY PROTECT
Governor Perpich has frequently stated that "education lays the
foundation for everything that we do in Minnesota Consistent with the
OUR ENVIRONMENT,
Governor's philosophy, the Minnesota State Board of Education in
1986 required environmental education as a standard part of the school
EVERYBODY MUST BE
curriculum.
Minnesota's environmental ethic is also reinforced through many
INVOLVED. AS A
volunteer programs. The Minnesota Environmental Education Board uti-
lizes hundreds of volunteers and five regional coordinators to conduct
SCOUTMASTER, I HAVE GONE
environmental education programs throughout the state. Four state-spon-
sored community beautification programs have also generated over 750,000
OUT WITH MY TROOP ON
volunteer hours to revitalize Minnesota's cities and towns. In 1988 volun-
teers spent more than 130,000 hours assisting Department of Natural
MANY OCCASIONS TO CLEAN
Resources (DNR) programs.
Community involvement to help protect Minnesota's environment
RIVERS AND ROADSIDES. I FIND
is comprehensive. Governor Perpich frequently joins volunteers on day-
long projects to pick up litter and debris along Minnesota's rivers. Corpora-
THAT THIS EXPOSURE AT AN
tions, sports organizations and civic groups also contribute. The Lutheran
Brotherhood insurance company is building playgrounds in 55 state parks.
EARLY AGE HAS A PROFOUND
The Burlington Northern Railroad helped clear waste behind DNR head-
quarters in St. Paul, and the Kiwanis have done public speaking on behalf
IMPACT ON THE FUTURE
of environmental programs. Such widespread involvement by our citizens
establishes a personal connection with the environment that prevents
HABITS OF OUR YOUNG
pollution and other environmental damage.
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HEADLINE: FBS FOUNDATION MAKES GRANTS FOR HOUSING, EDUCATION AND FAMILIES IN
NEED INITIATIVES
DATELINE: MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 5
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The First Bank System (FBS) Foundation today announced grants totalling
$233,630 in the areas of housing, education and families in need. To date, the
Foundation has made grants totalling $1,456,500 for 1990.
"Grants that contribute to affordable, quality housing for people with low-
and moderate-incomes have been a high priority for First Bank for the last three
years," = said Charles F. Riesenberg, vice president of the FBS Community
Development Corporation. "Our bankers work with customers to buy homes and
finance home improvements all the time. It's equally important to pay attention
to the needs of those who have never dreamed or only dreamed of a real home."
Housing grants of $185,430:
- Northside Residents Redevelopment Council, Minneapolis: $17,300
for Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Demonstration project.
-- Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis: $15,000
for home rehabilitation program.
-- Powderhorn Residents Group, Minneapolis: $15,000 for Single
Family Home program.
-- Project for Pride in Living, Inc., Minneapolis: $6,000 for pre-
development costs for a transitional housing project.
-- Whittier Alliance, Minneapolis: $2,130 for family day care site
in neighborhood housing project.
-- Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, Minneapolis: $25,000 for St.
Paul area housing program initiative.
- Twin Cities Neighborhood Housing Service, St. Paul: $60,000 for
four neighborhood projects in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
--- Greater Minneapolis Metropolitan Housing Corporation,
Minneapolis: $20,000 for general operating support.
- Farview Neighborhood Development Corporation, Minneapolis:
$15,000 for staff costs for four projects.
-- Lexington-Hamline Community Council, St. Paul: $10,000 match
grant for the Neighborhood Rehabilitation Incentive Program.
"In addition to the difficulty in finding safe, affordable housing,
these families must cope with the challenge of raising their children,
said Barbara Roy, executive director of the FBS Foundation. "The adult-
child relationship at home, at day care and at school is important in
child development. The Families in Need grants are aimed at helping
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parents provide a secure, healthy environment for their children."
Families in Need grants of $31,750:
-- Catholic Charities of Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis:
$3,000 for Women's Employment and Resource Center.
-- Children's Home Society of Minnesota, St. Paul: $4,000 for Young
Parents Program.
- Chrysalis, Minneapolis: $3,000 for Child Care Scholarship Fund.
-- City of St. Paul, Department of Police: $3,000 for D.A.R.E.
program.
-- Family Hope Services, New Hope: $500 for general operating
support.
- Genesis II for Women, Inc., Minneapolis: $1,000 for the Maternal
Guidance Project.
-- Learning Disabilities Association, Minneapolis: $6,000 for
Inter-generational Family Literacy Service.
-- H.I.R.E.D., Minneapolis: $2,000 for Neighborhood Employment
Network.
- Hallie 0. Brown Community Center, St. Paul: $3,000 for Summit-
University Education Consortium.
-- Minneapolis American Indian Center, Minneapolis: $500 for Youth
Recreation Program.
-- Minneapolis Urban League, Minneapolis: $500 for D.A.D. program.
-- Minnesota Accounting Aid Society, St. Paul: $1,000 for general
operating support.
-- North East Senior Citizen Resource Center, Inc., Minneapolis:
$1,250 for teen employment program.
- Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council, Brooklyn Park: $500
for Runaway Youth Initiative program.
-- Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, Minneapolis: $500 for Club
Fed summer program.
--- Pilot City Regional Center, Minneapolis: $2,000 for Financial
and Housing Counseling program.
Misc. grants of $16,450;
-- Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest, Minneapolis: $15,000
for the 1990-91 academic year program support.
-- Minnesota Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Minneapolis: $200
for community forum on civil rights.
- Minnesota Women's Consortium, St. Paul: $1,000 for general
operating support.
-- Urban Concerns Workshop, Inc., St. Paul: $250 for general
operating support.
The First Bank System Foundation complements the ongoing financial
services provided by the First Banks. Foundation funds are granted to a
variety of nonprofit organizations serving Minnesota, Colorado, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Montana and Washington state. The
Foundation maintains its commitment to arts and cultural organizations,
education, community development and other human services.
CONTACT: Wendy Raway of First Bank System, 612-370-5154
ORGANIZATION: First Bank System; First Bank System Foundation
TICKER-SYMBOL: FBS
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examples of
what will happen
if sequestration
occurs.
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three major science projects under development would have to be canceled (e.g., Comet Rendezvous/As-
teroid Flyby, Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility). In addition, reductions would have to be made
in the operations support for spacecraft (e.g., Magellan mission to Venus). With the exception of critical
safety-related items, all facility construction and renovation would be stopped.
The 10 planned Shuttle flights during 1991 would be postponed or canceled. The eleven missions
planned for 1992 would also have to be postponed or canceled, effectively suspending Shuttle operations
until 1993. (Recovery from this suspension would entail a re-hiring and recertification of the contractor
work force.) The purchase of critical spare parts, the development of the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor,
and the procurement of expendable launch vehicles would be terminated. All planned safety improve-
ments to the Shuttle would be deferred. Additional terminations or postponements would include all
shuttle engine ground testing, all orbiter modifications, all planned Shuttle equipment upgrades, and
all procurement of upper stage rockets and payload operations. Engineering laboratories and on-line
Shuttle facilities would be placed on a "caretaker" status.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
A sequester would terminate support to roughly 28,000 individuals, including senior investigators,
graduate and undergraduate students, pre-college teachers, and high school students. In addition, it
would defer or terminate all new initiatives and many existing programs, including Science and
Technology Centers, Engineering Research Centers, precollege education programs, graduate fellow-
ships, and global change research. It would shut down the U.S. Antarctic program for 1991 operations
and defer or terminate any remaining activities in the economic competitiveness and human resources
areas.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
A sequester of OPM's civilian retirement obligation limitation would: (1) increase existing backlogs
in death claims, refunds, and initial annuity payout processing (currently, the initial annuity payment
can take as long as six to nine months and lump-sum refunds about 3 months to process) and would
likely extend by three to six months the processing of initial annuity and lump-sum payments; (2)
stall design and development of the automated Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) project
that is meant to automate FERS retirement processing and definitely push into 1992 or beyond the
major start-up activities for the FERS automated record keeping system. This would result in the
continuing build-up of paper records for the FERS system similar to what exists for the Civil Service
activities. Retirement System.; and (3) force cutbacks in essential processing staff training and quality assurance
OPM would eliminate all 1991 initiatives including funding for the Public Policy Scholarship,
training for front-line workers, and the Commission on the Public Service. The Presidential Manage-
ment Intern Program would not be permitted to double in size as was authorized by Executive Order.
It would eliminate OPM's ability to implement pay reform, would cut current staffing levels, and
require the consolidation of area offices and the deferral of the acquisition of new computer equipment.
The backlog of National Agency Checks and Investigations would increase by about 32,000 cases as
OPM would not be able to provide timely investigations for agencies.
OPM would lose oversight and evaluation capacity and staffing research and development.
OPM's retirement and insurance functions would probably not possess the level of resources for
account maintenance activities, to carry out its fiduciary responsibilities, or to provide a minimally
acceptable level of services to its beneficiaries.
Civilian retirement claims processing reductions would put in jeopardy the timely payment of
monthly annuities to 2.2 million Federal civilian retirees. The typical annuitant receives a monthly
annuity of approximately $1,450 ($17,400 per annum) and may have no other source of retirement
income. Delays in the payment of annuities could prevent annuitants from being able to finance their
basic necessities.
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the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility) would be reduced by 50 percent or more. The impact of layoffs
of highly skilled staff would take years to reverse.
It would severely reduce research productivity at all the major national laboratories (e.g., Fermilab,
Brookhaven, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory) and at one or more of the smaller
accelerator and research facilities. University research programs would experience large cuts in
funding.
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)
A sequester would severely affect the basic ongoing research programs as well as the construction
of the Superconducting Super Collider.
Virtually all site work, research and development on detector designs, and purchase of capital
equipment for detector systems would cease. Design activities would have to be scaled back significantly
from 1990, causing personnel layoffs.
Implementation of the magnet industrialization plan would be impossible. The magnet contract
award would be delayed at least one year. This action would increase the total cost of the magnets
and significantly delay the project.
Cuts of this size would send a strong negative signal to potential international collaborators about
the commitment of the United States to the project and would jeopardize their participation. The
sequester would almost certainly result in no foreign contributions to SSC construction. In this event,
the United States would have to assume the full costs after the Texas contribution.
Department of Health and Human Services
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) Drug Abuse Programs
Activities that address the demand side of the war on drugs-research, prevention, and treat-
ment-would be reduced by over one-third. All new research, including medications development,
would be eliminated. Prevention programs for high risk youth and pregnant women would be unable
to support new grants, and the number of continuing grants could be reduced by approximately 20
percent.
The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant would fall sharply, reducing the number
of treatment slots far below Administration goals.
Centers for Disease Control
A sequester would cut the Preventive Health Care block grant, grants for sexually transmitted
disease clinics, childhood immunization grants, research on occupational safety and health, health
statistics, and HIV/AIDS grants.
A sequester would sharply reduce service to the public, including approximately 1,000,000 children
who would not be vaccinated for polio, measles, mumps, rubella, haemophilus influenza b, diphtheria,
tetanus, and pertussis. Other effects include: (1) decreased support for block grants could eliminate
over 50 percent of States' prevention programs in tuberculosis, smoking, nutrition, and chronic diseases;
(2) efforts to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases would be hampered: 300,000 fewer
persons would be examined for syphilis, 2,500,000 fewer persons would be tested for gonorrhea, and
1,000,000 fewer persons would be tested for chlamydia; (3) the number of births monitored for changes
in the incidence of birth defects would decrease by 60,000; and (4) approximately 200 disease outbreaks
would not be investigated.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A sequester could (1) lengthen the drug review process, (2) suspend efforts to make experimental
therapies available to patients with no therapeutic alternatives, and (3) reduce inspections of foods,
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Foreign Agricultural Service
A sequester would compromise the execution of trade policy responsibilities, including those
related to the Uruguay round during the most crucial stage of this multilateral trade negotiation.
Reductions in our overseas presence, including attaches and counselors, would impair the collection
and reporting of agricultural intelligence and the administration of export and market development
programs. Some overseas cooperator offices would have to be closed and some smaller cooperator
organizations would have to end participation in the program. Since agriculture is the one major
"positive" in U.S. trade, these reductions would have a detrimental effect on the balance of trade.
Forest Service
A sequester would severely affect the ability of the Forest Service to maintain projected targets
for recreation, wildlife and fish habitat management, and timber sales. Timber sales could decline to
below eight million board feet. Timber preparation work would be greatly reduced, reducing 1991 and
out year sales. Receipts to the Treasury and to States and counties would decline significantly.
Economic effects, particularly in the West, would be substantial.
Certain campgrounds and other recreational facilities would be closed. Services at remaining
sites would be significantly curtailed. Efforts to protect and improve habitat to achieve recovery goals
for endangered and threatened species would be substantially reduced.
No seasonal hiring would occur, further inhibiting quick response to fire fighting emergencies
and significantly curtailing services (e.g., garbage pickup and rest room cleaning) at the recreational
facilities that remain open. Road maintenance and most other field work would all but cease, resulting
in the deterioration of roads and facilities and ultimately road closures for safety concerns.
Meat and Poultry Inspection
The Federal Meat Inspection Act (P.L. 90-201) and the Poultry Products Inspection Act (P.L.
90-449) require carcass-by-carcass inspection by Federal inspectors in establishments slaughtering
food animals. All plants engaged in further processing of meat and poultry must also be inspected by
Federal inspectors. Since meat packing plants cannot operate without these Federal inspectors, the
meat and poultry slaughter and processing industry would be forced to limit or curtail production by
the same extent that inspectors are not available. The meat and poultry industry is one of the largest
in the country. It employs over 400,000 people at 7,800 meat and poultry plants and has an annual
retail value of more than $100 billion. Many thousands more people are employed in the breeding,
raising, transportation, storage, and distribution of food animals. The economic loss from any shut
down due to a sequester would result in the loss of billions of dollars to the American economy. In
addition to the economic disruption, the limited inspection coverage would erode the high level of
safety of the nation's meat and poultry products.
A sequester would result in the absence of inspection services (and the shutting down of meat
and poultry slaughter and processing plants) for about 140 days.
Quarantine and Inspection Activities
A sequester would defeat recent progress by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to
eliminate pseudorabies, brucellosis, and the Russian wheat aphid. Emergency eradication of the
Mediterranean fruit fly and grasshopper would be defeated. All 39 quarantine and inspection activities
would be reduced. This would result in serious delays in import shipments of plants and animals as
well as baggage inspection for international travel. Extensive delays or disruption of service could
cause significant losses of plants and animals in quarantine or awaiting inspection. It would also
drastically reduce the number of inspections and thus increase the risk of introducing serious animal
and plant diseases and pests into the United States. Implementation of the pending regulations on
animal welfare might not be possible.
The Federal Grain Inspection Service would totally eliminate contractual research including
aflatoxin research outlined in the Administration's farm bill proposal. The Agricultural Cooperative
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SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAMS FOR DESERT SHIELD TROOPS
Contact: Ms. Judy Lamp
Principal, Park Center High School
612/566-6700
-Park Center High School in Brooklyn Park (a Minneapolis suburb)
has begun a letter writing project to troops in the Gulf. Rather
than a random and blanket writing campaign, the students really
wanted to make their project personal.
Various groups/teams in the school have begun to track down
the names and addresses of Park Center graduates who are in the
Armed Forces and serving in Operation Desert Shield. These
groups, such as the football team, found graduates who played
football at their school and are sending them personalized
letters about the goings-on at Park Center HS, clippings of their
football games, programs, etc.
The football has already begun their project. Other groups
like the soccer team, the student government, and the choir are
currently in the process of locating troops who were in the same
activities.
Contact: Mrs. Jeanic Bursheim
612 / 533 - 2246
Principal, Fair Oaks Elem.
Fair Oaks Elementary School
A 5th grade class is organizing a letter writing project to the
troops. The topic came up because one little girl has a father
in the Reserves in Minneapolis -- he has not yet been called, but
the class wanted to let other men and women in the desert know
that they are thinking of them.
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cut down.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read the draft of the
president's speech relative to his Minnesota visit on 9/20/90.
The theme of this speech ought to be about change and new
leadership. as witnessed by the primary results last week in
Oklahoma, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
The voters of America are clearly looking for responsible
newcomers who are willing to tackle the tough issue's. They want
new leaders with fresh idea's. This change began in Minnesota in
1978 when two newcomers, Dave Durenberger and Rudy Boschwitz
were elected..
Minnesota is famous for its innovation to change and it's excellence
in leadership. This "Time for a change" mood appears to be
continuing in 1990 with Jon Grunseth.
Jon Grunseth is the perfect example of Minnesota innovation. He
comes from the private sector, showing tremendous staying-power
by committing over two years to come from obscurity to win a
tough Republican endorsement. He managed a stunning victory in the
primary, defeating two formidable opponents.
Another Minnesota innovation is the Citizens Jury a new program
that allows private citizens to question candidates in a fairly in-
depth manner. The Citizens Jury is a program of merit and one the
whole country is talking about..
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The president might want to say there are some changes that are
regrettable, like Bill Frenzel opting to retire this year. Bill is a
perfect example of a public servant that will put the interest of the
country above all else. His work on the current budget summit is a
testimony to his commitment.
The President might also mention that Minnesota should start by
electing Jon Grunseth and finish by electing a Republican majority in
the state legislature. This will allow Jon to accomplish his new
programs.
Recent polling data indicates that while Minnesotan's believe they
have a great state, they feel the need for a great Governor.
The Mideast part of the speech is timely and appropriate.
The information on the Russian visit and education should be
deleted or modified. They are two of the themes Rudy Perpich is
using in his re-election campaign. Press reports will mention that
these are Perpich strong points.
COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS IN SAUDI ARABIA:
KARE TV, CHANNEL 11
The State Fair was held during the last days of August and
the first few days of September. / KARE TV organized KARE-grams
for the public to send to our troops. The response was
tremendous. The messages were then personally delivered by a
reporter from KARE who traveled to Saudi Arabia with Minnesota
Senator Durenberger.
Contact: Carolyn Marinan
(612) 541-8014
WLOL RADIO
WLOL radio in St. Paul is part of the USO network and sends
tapes of radio programming to our troops. They tape 1/2 hour
segments 3 days a week -- at the end of the week, they edit this
to a 90 minute tape. The tapes are sent to the desert at the end
of every week, to a different division each week.
They also have a 24 hour message line, where listeners can
call in and leave a taped message for our troops. At the week's
end, the messages are transferred to the other side of the 90
minute tape and are sent off.
The tapes begin with newsy summaries of what's happening in
the Twin Cities and in the state.
Source: Eleanor Mondale or Craig
(612) 340-9565
THE KEYSTONE PROGRAM
Contact: Bette Anderson
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
612/370-9151
The Keystone Program was started in 1976. It is an organization
of businesses and corporations who are in the "5% Club" -- giving
five percent of their pre-tax earnings to community groups and
projects. 3 of every 10 businesses in fact contribute 10% or
more to the program. The national average of business
contributions is under 2%, so this program is really exemplary.
The Program has been replicated all over the US -- 21 other
programs have been created. Many used the Minnesota Program as
the model after President Reagan called for businesses to fill
the gap.
In Minnesota, 21 businesses were originally involved; there are
now 135 members. 19 of them are Fortune 500 companies.
The contributions go to the community cause of their choice, such
as educational partnerships, support of the arts, or social
services.
Twin City Federal, a new member, will be one of the businesses
honored next month for their program. TCF began an educational
partnership with Patrick Henry High School -- developing
projects to improve study techniques, share resources, career
EDU
development and other projects in cooperation. Company
executives have devoted over 800 hours to working with the
school, students, parents, and faculty. The executives talk with
the students on marketing, data processing, auditing, human
resources, among other things. The CEO and VP are extremely
active personally.
In the arts, monies go to support such things as the nationally
known Guthrie Theater and the Minneapolis Symphony.
in
In social services, an example is the Meals on Wheels Program,
serving food to the elderly and housebound. The program was
faltering and was in danger of closing down -- until 15
quot
businesses and nonprofit organizations banded together to
contribute time and money.
room-
Also, businesspeople have formed partnerships with senior
citizens homes, serving on the board there and spending time in
In
the home, making friends with the elderly people there.
svem
Finally, there is the "Leadership in Neighborhoods" Program,
another one that will be honored next month. Businesses will
the
carewe
we
contribute directly to neighborhoods; the neighborhoods will then
spend the $$ where it's most needed.
(Lange/Cawley)
September 20, 1990
2:45 a.m.
[MINNGOV.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GRUNSETH FOR GOVERNOR
MINNEAPOLIS HYATT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
[7:30]
[[ Thank you,
.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SHOULD INCLUDE
MENTION OF SHARON CLARK, JON'S RUNNING MATE AND HER TAG LINE OF
condidate
l 've heard of rooten for
a
but this is
"Isn't it about time we had a hog farmer on the ticket?" Thank
sedeculous
you all. I was talking a few minutes ago with someone involved
in planning this event. She told me that of all the details and
decisions, what concerned her most was deciding on a speaker.
I said I imagined she wanted someone influential.
A world leader. A charismatic speaker. And she said, "No,
Gorby's already been here." ]]
Well, it's wonderful to be in Minnesota. And if anyone ever
again criticizes your climate, you can tell them that the North
Star State is one place where the Cold War began to thaw. 11
Sure, change is everywhere and always with us -- but
over the last year, what we've seen around the world has been
truly astounding. You've seen it here in Minnesota -- really,
who would have imagined seeing those electric highway signs
programmed to say "Welcome" in Russian? 11
But if anyone were to ask me what is the most meaningful and
hopeful sign of the changing times we live in... I'd point to the
kind and quality of real cooperation now shared by the United
States and the Soviet Union, as we work to face down aggression
in the Persian Gulf.
2
Our two nations haven't shared such unity of purpose for
forty-five years. But now, in the heat of crisis in the Middle
East, we forge reason for real hope. Hope for a more peaceful,
more stable world order. Through uncommon cooperation, we have
made peace our common cause. That is reason for celebration. III
Still, while that kind of cooperation is new, there's one
thing we've been able to rely on. That's the commitment of
American servicemen and women to contain aggression -- and the
American people's support of our men and women in uniform.
We've seen no greater proof of that commitment than from the
people of Minnesota. Minnesota radio and TV stations sending
tapes of local news. Park Center High School students tracking
down names of earlier graduates now in the Gulf, and writing to
let them know how the football team's doing.
And among so many others, I heard about a group here in
Minneapolis, just established, called "S.O.C.M." ["sock 'em"]
-- "Support our Country's Military." They're a volunteer group
that believes, as I do, that our soldiers and their families
deserve the best.
So they're providing financial and emotional support for
people with family members in the military. Writing letters and
sending board games to the troops -- even arranging for child
care, to help the grandmother of two girls, who was worried her
son and daughter-in-law might both be called up.
That kind of collective spirit, that kind of shared
commitment, is important. It is those actions large and small
3
-- celebrated or little-noticed, in communities of every kind
across the country -- that make possible American leadership
around the world.
But leadership abroad demands good leadership here at home.
And that's why we're here today.
You've got a lot to be proud of. Nestled in this fertile
land of 10,000 lakes, of forests and rolling farmland, the Twin
Cities are vibrant, prosperous examples of urban life the way it
ought to be. Fast-paced but friendly.
You've got a diverse economy -- building the world's largest
mainframe computers, and producing more turkeys than any other
state. III [[ I hope your political opponents don't take that
the wrong way. ]]
But today, I'm here to give my whole-hearted support to a
candidate for governor who respects the power of the people
themselves -- and wants to unleash the full potential of the
great state of Minnesota: Jon Grunseth. III
Jon's ability to lead has been noted on the federal level
for several years now. When Minnesota experienced one of the
worst pipeline explosions in history at the Williams Plant. It
was Jon who was called upon by Governor Rudy Perpich -- currently
us
Jon's opponent -- to chair the Commission on Pipeline Safety.
Later, my predecessor, President Reagan appointed him to the
National Board of Pipeline Safety, where Jon was an instrumental
member of the team that pushed through the toughest safety
standards anywhere in the country. And, I looked to the entire
4
Grunseth family during the last presidential campaign when they
served on this state's steering committee.
Despite all the help Jon has been to the federal government,
Jon's passion lies here in the Minnesota countryside. And Jon
knows that a bright future for Minnesota won't be built by a
burgeoning bureaucracy. It must be built by the people -- it is
the birthright of people -- empowered and encouraged to make a
difference for themselves and their communities.
That's why Jon's devoted himself to reform in education;
protection of the environment; and control of state spending.
Minnesota has a strong tradition in education. As Jon has
pointed out, there was a University of Minnesota before there was
a state of Minnesota. You've already got the nation's highest
high-school graduation rate. But the best can be made better.
And that's why this candidate, and we of this Party, believe
that to improve schools we should put our trust in parents, not
bureaucracies -- we should put choice in their hands, not simply
in the State Department of Education -- and we should measure
success not merely by mandates made and money spent, but by
results.
That's why, for 35 years, Minnesota taxpayers have been free
to choose where to send their kids to school, through a state
income tax deduction.
That's why the University of Minnesota has entered a joint
venture with two leading black colleges this month, in an
5
imaginative and far-reaching initiative to improve the research
capabilities of black institutions of higher learning.
And that's why businesses in the Twin Cities have been
sending their executives to work directly with students, parents,
and teachers. And why other businesses are working in a
public/private partnership for early education, creating company-
based "satellite" schools that ease work-family conflicts, let
public school teachers apply their talents, and get kids off to a
good start, for a great education.
Results are what we're after. And working together with Jon
Grunseth, results are what we're going to get.
But along with deeply-held convictions on the importance of
education, Jon shares the environmental ethic so crucial to
preserving the grandeur of the great North Woods.
He believes, as I do, that we can and must recapture the
heritage of Teddy Roosevelt -- America's first and strongest
voice crying for the wilderness. And he understands the
importance of community involvement in preservation efforts, to
carefully manage our wild lands and wildlife.
Your new Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, and the
restoration of Big Stone Lake, are great success stories. But
Minnesota's top-rated national rankings on air and drinking water
quality, conservation, and recreation, aren't the result of
pronouncements from on high. They reflect community efforts and
a volunteer ethic that Jon Grunseth understands, and is committed
to promoting and expanding.
6
It is true that nature serves man's interests. But even
more true, that it is in mankind's interest to preserve nature.
Jon Grunseth will be a leader for the environment.
11
And he'll also be a leader in managing fiscal resources.
Jon's twelve years as an officer of Ecolab, a firm leading the
world in environmental sanitation, is living proof of Jon's
economic prowess. While serving on Ecolab's management team,
Ecolab's sales grew from $400 million in sales to over $1.3
billion today. Jon will use this same fiscal fortitude as
Governor. He's called for an "absolute cap on state spending,
and real, honest property tax reform." He has said, as this
-MK
Am
Party believes, that the answer is not to spend as much as you
Budget
can tax, but to "tax only as much as you need to spend." [A few
what's
led
lines on budget deal]. We need fiscal discipline in every branch the
of government, and at all levels -- from the White House to the
-allontable
Minnesota Statehouse. Jon Grunseth will keep spending under
Ralfo do if
control.
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You know, not so long ago, Jon was considered the underdog
in the race for Governor. ((Obviously, the pollsters in
Cough
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Minnesota must all be Swedes.)) Well, look at him now. Jon won tradayt refun
the Republican Primary by an overwhelming margin and his campaign c.gs
create class
is stronger than ever. How could anyone doubt the perseverance warfare
of a man won the fight against a severe case of childhood polio
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I believe Jon will make a great governor. It's been a
pleasure to join you today. But before I go, let me ask each one
of you to make an effort to get out the vote this fall.
On
the farms and fields, in the suburbs and cities, make sure that
the people of Minnesota know what's at stake here.
In an era that celebrates the dawning of democratic freedoms
around the world -- when so many who have struggled so long have
at last found their voice -- no one who lives in freedom should
rob themselves of the priceless power of choice.
Encourage people to exercise that power -- to confirm the
kind of leadership they're after -- and to preserve the enduring
glow of the North Star State.
Thank you all -- and God bless the great state of Minnesota.
# # #
3
Charlottesville Education Summit, because, he says, "these goals
are right for the nation and right for Ohio."
By the year 2000, George Voinovich wants an Ohio where all
children start school ready to learn. Where the high school
graduation rate will increase to at least 90 percent. Where
students will leave grades four, eight and twelve having
demonstrated competency in English, math, science, history and
geography; and where they finish first in science and mathematics
achievement. And he wants an Ohio where adults are literate and
have the skills and knowledge to compete in a global economy.
But before any of this, George and I want our schools to be
free of drugs and violence. III
These are also the heartfelt goals of Congressman Mike
DeWine. Mike, we'll miss your advice and support in Washington.
You've worked hard. You've earned recognition from Watchdogs of
the Treasury and the National Taxpayers Union as a fighter for
fiscal responsibility. Mike has also distinguished himself as a
fighter against illegal drugs and crime. And that is why Mike
Dewine is the right choice for Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio.
If I may, I would like to now address two other matters
important to the people of Ohio; but also important to America
and the world. This is an extraordinary moment, a moment when
our national will is being tested at home and abroad.
As you know, even before the Persian Gulf crisis, America
was already more economically vulnerable than we should ever be -
- with a projected federal budget deficit of $232 billion. So
I
4
have been telling the Congress that we must address our budget
deficit --- not in 1991, not in 1992 -- but now
We need a budget deficit agreement to help maintain our
economic vitality, our competitiveness and our growth in job
creation. And our agreement must meet several tests. It must
promote growth. It must be fair and credible -- with real
spending cuts. And I insist on an agreement that will reform the
budget process itself.
Temporary quick-fix solutions to sweep this problem under
the rug until after Election Day are not acceptable. Let me tell
you what is acceptable: a five-year, $500 billion plan to keep
America strong, competitive and on the path to long-term economic
health.
Let me review a little history. On July 26th, our
Administration developed a budget plan that promised the half
trillion dollars in savings over five years. Right off the bat,
I was asked to make a sacrifice -- to allow the other side to put
taxes on the table. Not my first choice. Not my second. But it
is a choice I had to make to get Congress to act.
To my dismay, ((???)) one hundred days have passed -- and
Congress still has offered no comprehensive plan in return.
Now your Congress wants to leave Washington to campaign for
re-election without meeting their most fundamental
responsibility. This Congressional inaction will lead to the
worst possible outcome -- sequestration ------------------------- across-the-board cuts
of all government programs.
5
As you know, the law requires this sequester to begin in
just a few days. Let me give you just three examples of what
this means:
*** It will mean cutbacks in air-traffic control and the
curtailment of more than 100 air-traffic control towers. This
will make flying inconvenient, and increase traveler delays up to
600 percent.
*** Meat and poultry inspection will force the shutdown of
meat-processing plants, threatening Ohio jobs.
*** In your city, needy students will not be able to attend
Akron University because their Pell Grants will be cut.
Of course, I don't mean to paint too grim a picture. Not
everyone will have to accept such a cut. Rest assured, while
most executive agencies, from the White House on down, will
furlough employees and cut programs across the board -- one
branch of government will have broad discretion in how it cuts
its funds: you guessed it -- the Congress
We are facing this sequester because of Congressional
failure to act. So let there be no mistake. When the axe falls
on so many worthy programs -- the blood will be on the hands of
Congress.
Of course, it doesn't have to be that way. We still have a
few days to act. Congress can reform its bizarre budgeting
process. We can still fix the federal budget mess, and the
federal-budget process mess -- once and for all. And we can
do it sooner rather than later. ((DeWine quote to come. ) )
6
Needless to say, this test of our domestic will is occurring
at the same time America's will is being tested abroad. Emotions
in the budget debate are running high. But no matter how heated
the exchange of words may be over the budget, I deeply appreciate
the bipartisan support shown for America's response to Iraqi
aggression. This is one issue that ends at the water's edge. III
I am often asked when can we bring our people home. I can
only say: When the job is done.
Certain objectives must be met. Iraq must withdraw from
Kuwait, without condition. Kuwait's legitimate government must
be restored. The security and stability of the Persian Gulf must
be assured. And American citizens abroad must be protected. III
But we have another, final objective -- to create a new
partnership of nations. A new world order -- freer from the
threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, more secure
in the quest for peace.
These are our objectives, those of the United Nations
Security Council and our allies. West Germany has pledged to
support the mission with almost $2 billion, and provide transport
ships and planes, while Japan has pledged a package worth $4
billion. France has added another 4,000 troops. And Great
Britain has sent 120 tanks, 6,000 troops, the famous Desert Rats.
It is truly Iraq against the world. III
The world is simply telling Saddam Hussein: We will not give
in to intimidation.
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Missing the sports pages
From Rob Simon, 21 ,Spetty officer third class U.S.
Navy aboard the USS Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf.
The letter is to his mother Elana Simon, of & aple
Grove, Minn.
Aug. 12, 1990
Dear family,
How are all of you doing? m okay right now! I'm just
sitting on watch and thought I would write a few lines.
The news here is the news Today we had 22 report
ers, including Dan Rather come aboard. have not seen
them yet, but I thought that was kind of interesting.
I heard they are going to be here for a week. Lhope
that means we are going to get some up to date.news,
because here we are making the news, and we hear
about it three days later. Explain that to me if you can.
What is going on in sports? When does the season kick
off? And what does the Vikes' schedule look like? Please
send me videotapes of the Vikings games. Also, please
send me the sports page: It may be a week and a half old
when it gets here, but will enjoy it anyway. ween
Sorry there is not much'else to say. It is actually quite
boring here, which is good in an oddisort of way
Hove you and miss you. Love Rob
Must USE
in
Minn.
speech
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(Lange/Cawley)
September 16, 1990
9:45 a.m.
[MINNGOV.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GRUNSETH FOR GOVERNOR
MINNEAPOLIS HYATT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
[7:30]
[[ Thank you,
.
Thank you all. I was talking a few
minutes ago with someone involved in planning this event. She
told me that of all the details and decisions, what concerned her
most was deciding on a speaker.
I said I imagined she wanted someone influential.
A world leader. A charismatic speaker. And she said, "No,
Gorby's already been here." ]]
Well, it's wonderful to be in Minnesota. And if anyone ever
again criticizes your climate, you can tell them that the North
Star State is one place where the Cold War began to thaw. 11
Sure, change is everywhere and always with us -- but
over the last year, what we've seen around the world has been
truly astounding. You've seen it here in Minnesota -- really,
who would have imagined seeing those electric highway signs
programmed to say "Welcome" in Russian? 11
But if anyone were to ask me what is the most meaningful and
hopeful sign of the changing times we live in... I'd point to the
kind and quality of real cooperation now shared by the United
States and the Soviet Union, as we work to face down aggression
in the Persian Gulf.
Our two nations haven't shared such unity of purpose for
forty-five years. But now, in the heat of crisis in the Middle
2
East, we forge reason for real hope. Hope for a more peaceful,
more stable world order. Through uncommon cooperation, we have
made peace our common cause. That is reason for celebration. 111
still, while that kind of cooperation is new, there's one
thing we've been able to rely on. That's the commitment of
American servicemen and women to contain aggression -- and the
American people's support of our men and women in uniform.
We've seen no greater proof of that commitment than from the
people of Minnesota. Minnesota radio and TV stations sending
tapes of local news. Park Center High School students tracking
down names of earlier graduates now in the Gulf, and writing to
let them know how the football team's doing.
And among so many others, I heard about a group here in
Minneapolis, just established, called "S.O.C.M." ["sock 'em"]
-- "Support our Country's Military." They're a volunteer group
that believes, as I do, that our soldiers and their families
deserve the best.
So they're providing financial and emotional support for
people with family members in the military. Writing letters and
sending board games to the troops -- even arranging for child
care, to help the grandmother of two girls, who was worried her
son and daughter-in-law might both be called up.
That kind of collective spirit, that kind of shared
commitment, is important. It is those actions large and small
3
-- celebrated or little-noticed, in communities of every kind
across the country -- that make possible American leadership
around the world.
But leadership abroad demands good leadership here at home.
And that's why we're here today.
You've got a lot to be proud of. Nestled in this fertile
land of 10,000 lakes, of forests and rolling farmland, the Twin
Cities are vibrant, prosperous examples of urban life the way it
ought to be. Fast-paced but friendly.
You've got a diverse economy -- building the world's largest
mainframe computers, and producing more turkeys than any other
state. III [[ I hope your political opponents don't take that
the wrong way. ]]
But today, I'm here to give my whole-hearted support to a
candidate for governor who respects the power of the people
themselves -- and wants to unleash the full potential of the
great state of Minnesota: Jon Grunseth. III
Jon knows that a bright future for Minnesota won't be built
by a burgeoning bureaucracy. It must be built by the people --
it is the birthright of people -- empowered and encouraged to
make a difference for themselves and their communities.
That's why Jon's devoted himself to reform in education;
protection of the environment; and control of state spending.
Minnesota has a strong tradition in education. As Jon has
pointed out, there was a University of Minnesota before there was
a state of Minnesota. You've already got the nation's highest
4
high-school graduation rate. But the best can be made better.
And that's why this candidate, and we of this Party, believe
that to improve schools we should put our trust in parents, not
bureaucracies -- we should put choice in their hands, not simply
in the State Department of Education -- and we should measure
success not merely by mandates made and money spent, but by
results.
That's why, for 35 years, Minnesota taxpayers have been free
to choose where to send their kids to school, through a state
income tax deduction.
That's why the University of Minnesota has entered a joint
venture with two leading black colleges this month, in an
imaginative and far-reaching initiative to improve the research
capabilities of black institutions of higher learning.
And that's why businesses in the Twin Cities have been
sending their executives to work directly with students, parents,
and teachers. And why other businesses are working in a
public/private partnership for early education, creating company-
based "satellite" schools that ease work-family conflicts, let
public school teachers apply their talents, and get kids off to a
good start, for a great education.
Results are what we're after. And working together with Jon
Grunseth, results are what we're going to get. 11
But along with deeply-held convictions on the importance of
education, Jon shares the environmental ethic so crucial to
preserving the gradeur of the great North Woods.
6
each one of you to make an effort to get out the vote this fall.
On the farms and fields, in the suburbs and cities, make
sure that the people of Minnesota know what's at stake here.
In an era that celebrates the dawning of democratic freedoms
around the world -- when so many who have struggled so long have
at last found their voice -- no one who lives in freedom should
rob themselves of the priceless power of choice.
Encourage people to exercise that power -- to confirm the
kind of leadership they're after -- and to preserve the enduring
glow of the North Star State.
Thank you all -- and God bless the great state of Minnesota.
# # #
(Lange/Cawley)
September 16, 1990
9:45 a.m.
[MINNGOV.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: GRUNSETH FOR GOVERNOR
MINNEAPOLIS HYATT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
[7:30]
[[ Thank you,
.
Thank you all. I was talking a few
minutes ago with someone involved in planning this event. She
told me that of all the details and decisions, what concerned her
most was deciding on a speaker.
I said I imagined she wanted someone influential.
A world leader. A charismatic speaker. And she said, "No,
Gorby's already been here." ]]
Well, it's wonderful to be in Minnesota. And if anyone ever
again criticizes your climate, you can tell them that the North
Star State is one place where the Cold War began to thaw. 11
Sure, change is everywhere and always with us -- but
over the last year, what we've seen around the world has been
truly astounding. You've seen it here in Minnesota -- really,
who would have imagined seeing those electric highway signs
programmed to say "Welcome" in Russian? 11
But if anyone were to ask me what is the most meaningful and
hopeful sign of the changing times we live in I'd point to the
kind and quality of real cooperation now shared by the United
States and the Soviet Union, as we work to face down aggression
in the Persian Gulf.
Our two nations haven't shared such unity of purpose for
forty-five years. But now, in the heat of crisis in the Middle
2
East, we forge reason for real hope.
Hope for a more peaceful,
more stable world order. Through uncommon cooperation, we have
made peace our common cause. That is reason for celebration. III
Still, while that kind of cooperation is new, there's one
thing we've been able to rely on. That's the commitment of
American servicemen and women to contain aggression -- and the
American people's support of our men and women in uniform.
We've seen no greater proof of that commitment than from the
people of Minnesota. Minnesota radio and TV stations sending
tapes of local news. Park Center High School students tracking
down names of earlier graduates now in the Gulf, and writing to
let them know how the football team's doing.
And among so many others, I heard about a group here in
Minneapolis, just established, called "S.O.C.M." ["sock 'em"]
-- "Support our Country's Military." They're a volunteer group
that believes, as I do, that our soldiers and their families
deserve the best.
So they're providing financial and emotional support for
people with family members in the military. Writing letters and
sending board games to the troops -- even arranging for child
care, to help the grandmother of two girls, who was worried her
son and daughter-in-law might both be called up.
That kind of collective spirit, that kind of shared
commitment, is important. It is those actions large and small
3
-- celebrated or little-noticed, in communities of every kind
across the country -- that make possible American leadership
around the world.
But leadership abroad demands good leadership here at home.
And that's why we're here today.
You've got a lot to be proud of. Nestled in this fertile
land of 10,000 lakes, of forests and rolling farmland, the Twin
Cities are vibrant, prosperous examples of urban life the way it
ought to be. Fast-paced but friendly.
You've got a diverse economy -- building the world's largest
mainframe computers, and producing more turkeys than any other
state.
III [[ I hope your political opponents don't take that
the wrong way. ]]
But today, I'm here to give my whole-hearted support to a
candidate for governor who respects the power of the people
themselves -- and wants to unleash the full potential of the
great state of Minnesota: Jon Grunseth. III
Jon knows that a bright future for Minnesota won't be built
by a burgeoning bureaucracy. It must be built by the people --
it is the birthright of people -- empowered and encouraged to
make a. difference for themselves and their communities.
That's why Jon's devoted himself to reform in education;
protection of the environment; and control of state spending.
Minnesota has a strong tradition in education. As Jon has
pointed out, there was a University of Minnesota before there was
a state of Minnesota. You've already got the nation's highest
4
high-school graduation rate. But the best can be made better.
And that's why this candidate, and we of this Party, believe
that to improve schools we should put our trust in parents, not
bureaucracies -- we should put choice in their hands, not simply
in the State Department of Education -- and we should measure
success not merely by mandates made and money spent, but by
results.
That's why, for 35 years, Minnesota taxpayers have been free
to choose where to send their kids to school, through a state
income tax deduction.
That's why the University of Minnesota has entered a joint
venture with two leading black colleges this month, in an
imaginative and far-reaching initiative to improve the research
capabilities of black institutions of higher learning.
And that's why businesses in the Twin Cities have been
sending their executives to work directly with students, parents,
and teachers. And why other businesses are working in a
public/private partnership for early education, creating company-
based "satellite" schools that ease work-family conflicts, let
public school teachers apply their talents, and get kids off to a
good start, for a great education.
Results are what we're after. And working together with Jon
Grunseth, results are what we're going to get.
But along with deeply-held convictions on the importance of
education, Jon shares the environmental ethic so crucial to
preserving the gradeur of the great North Woods.
5
He believes, as I do, that we can and must recapture the
heritage of Teddy Roosevelt -- America's first and strongest
voice crying for the wilderness. And he understands the
importance of community involvement in preservation efforts, to
carefully manage our wild lands and wildlife.
Your new Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, and the
restoration of Big Stone Lake, are great success stories. But
Minnesota's top-rated national rankings on air and drinking water
quality, conservation, and recreation, aren't the result of
pronouncements from on high. They reflect community efforts and
a volunteer ethic that Jon Grunseth understands, and is committed
to promoting and expanding.
It is true that nature serves man's interests. But even
more true, that it is in mankind's interest to preserve nature.
Jon Grunseth will be a leader for the environment.
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And he'll also be a leader in managing fiscal resources.
He's called for an "absolute cap on state spending, and real,
honest property tax reform." He has said, as this Party
believes, that the answer is not to spend as much as you can tax,
but to "tax only as much as you need to spend." [A few lines on
budget deal]. We need fiscal discipline in every branch of
government, and at all levels -- from the White House to the
Minnesota Statehouse. Jon Grunseth will keep spending under
control.
I believe Jon will make a great governor. It's been a
genuine pleasure to join you today.
But before I go, let me ask
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each one of you to make an effort to get out the vote this fall.
On the farms and fields, in the suburbs and cities, make
sure that the people of Minnesota know what's at stake here.
In an era that celebrates the dawning of democratic freedoms
around the world -- when so many who have struggled so long have
at last found their voice -- no one who lives in freedom should
rob themselves of the priceless power of choice.
Encourage people to exercise that power -- to confirm the
kind of leadership they're after -- and to preserve the enduring
glow of the North Star State.
Thank you all -- and God bless the great state of Minnesota.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
GRUNSETH FOR GOVERNOR
MINNEAPOLIS HYATT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
[7:30]
[[
Thank you,
.
Thank you all. I was talking a few
minutes ago with someone involved in planning this event. She
told me that of all the details and decisions, what concerned her
most was deciding on a speaker.
I said I imagined she wanted someone influential.
A world leader. A charismatic speaker. And she said, "No,
Gorby's already been here." ]]
Well, it's wonderful to be in Minnesota. And if anyone ever
again criticizes your climate, you can tell them that the North
Toxor
Star State is one place where the Cold War began to thaw. 11
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Sure, change is everywhere and always with us -- but
over the last year, what we've seen around the world has been
truly astounding. You've seen it here in Minnesota -- really,
who would have imagined seeing those electric highway signs
programmed to say "Welcome" in Russian?
\\
But if anyone were to ask me what is the most meaningful and
hopeful sign of the changing times we live in
I'd point to the
kind and quality of real cooperation now shared by the United
States and the Soviet Union, as we work to face down aggression
in the Persian Gulf.
Our two nations haven't shared such unity of purpose for
forty-five years. But now, in the heat of crisis in the Middle
2
East, we forge reason for real hope.
Hope for a more peaceful,
more stable world order. Through uncommon cooperation, we have
made peace our common cause. That is reason for celebration. III
Still, while that kind of cooperation is new, there's one
thing we've been able to rely on. That's the commitment of
American servicemen and women to contain aggression -- and the
American people's support of our men and women in uniform.
We've seen no greater proof of that commitment than from the
people of Minnesota. Minnesota radio and TV stations sending
tapes of local news. Park Center High School students tracking
down names of earlier graduates now in the Gulf, and writing to
let them know how the football team's doing.
And among so many others, I heard about a group here in
Minneapolis, just established, called "S.O.C.M." ["sock 'em"]
-- "Support our Country's Military."
They're a volunteer group
that believes, as I do, that our soldiers and their families
deserve the best.
So they're providing financial and emotional support for
people with family members in the military. Writing letters and
sending board games to the troops -- even arranging for child
care, to help the grandmother of two girls, who was worried her
son and daughter-in-law might both be called up.
That kind of collective spirit, that kind of shared
commitment, is important. It is those actions large and small
3
-- celebrated or little-noticed, in communities of every kind
across the country -- that make possible American leadership
around the world.
But leadership abroad demands good leadership here at home.
And that's why we're here today.
You've got a lot to be proud of. Nestled in this fertile
land of 10,000 lakes, of forests and rolling farmland, the Twin
Cities are vibrant, prosperous examples of urban life the way it
ought to be. Fast-paced but friendly.
You've got a diverse economy -- building the world's largest
mainframe computers, and producing more turkeys than any other
state.
\\\ [[ I hope your political opponents don't take that
the wrong way. ]]
But today, I'm here to give my whole-hearted support to a
candidate for governor who respects the power of the people
themselves -- and wants to unleash the full potential of the
great state of Minnesota: Jon Grunseth. III
Jon knows that a bright future for Minnesota won't be built
by a burgeoning bureaucracy. It must be built by the people --
it is the birthright of people -- empowered and encouraged to
make a difference for themselves and their communities.
That's why Jon's devoted himself to reform in education;
protection of the environment; and control of state spending.
Minnesota has a strong tradition in education. As Jon has
pointed out, there was a University of Minnesota before there was
a state of Minnesota. You've already got the nation's highest
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high-school graduation rate. But the best can be made better.
And that's why this candidate, and we of this Party, believe
that to improve schools we should put our trust in parents, not
bureaucracies -- we should put choice in their hands, not simply
in the State Department of Education -- and we should measure
success not merely by mandates made and money spent, but by
results.
That's why, for 35 years, Minnesota taxpayers have been free
to choose where to send their kids to school, through a state
income tax deduction.
That's why the University of Minnesota has entered a joint
venture with two leading black colleges this month, in an
imaginative and far-reaching initiative to improve the research
capabilities of black institutions of higher learning.
And that's why businesses in the Twin Cities have been
sending their executives to work directly with students, parents,
and teachers. And why other businesses are working in a
public/private partnership for early education, creating company-
based "satellite" schools that ease work-family conflicts, let
public school teachers apply their talents, and get kids off to a
good start, for a great education.
Results are what we're after. And working together with Jon
Grunseth, results are what we're going to get.
But along with deeply-held convictions on the importance of
education, Jon shares the environmental ethic so crucial to
preserving the gradeur of the great North Woods.
5
He believes, as I do, that we can and must recapture the
heritage of Teddy Roosevelt -- America's first and strongest
voice crying for the wilderness. And he understands the
importance of community involvement in preservation efforts, to
carefully manage our wild lands and wildlife.
Your new Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, and the
restoration of Big Stone Lake, are great success stories. But
Minnesota's top-rated national rankings on air and drinking water
quality, conservation, and recreation, aren't the result of
pronouncements from on high. They reflect community efforts and
a volunteer ethic that Jon Grunseth understands, and is committed
to promoting and expanding.
It is true that nature serves man's interests. But even
more true, that it is in mankind's interest to preserve nature.
Jon Grunseth will be a leader for the environment.
11
And he'll also be a leader in managing fiscal resources.
He's called for an "absolute cap on state spending, and real,
honest property tax reform." He has said, as this Party
believes, that the answer is not to spend as much as you can tax,
but to "tax only as much as you need to spend." [A few lines on
budget deal]. We need fiscal discipline in every branch of
government, and at all levels -- from the White House to the
Minnesota Statehouse. Jon Grunseth will keep spending under
control.
I believe Jon will make a great governor. It's been a
genuine pleasure to join you today.
But before I go, let me ask
6
each one of you to make an effort to get out the vote this fall.
On the farms and fields, in the suburbs and cities, make
sure that the people of Minnesota know what's at stake here.
In an era that celebrates the dawning of democratic freedoms
around the world -- when so many who have struggled so long have
at last found their voice -- no one who lives in freedom should
rob themselves of the priceless power of choice.
Encourage people to exercise that power -- to confirm the
kind of leadership they're after -- and to preserve the enduring
glow of the North Star State.
Thank you all -- and God bless the great state of Minnesota.
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Fourteen of the nation's leading black colleges and universities will 02
paired with seven Midwestern research universities in an historic initiative to
improve the research capabilities of black institutions, a university consortium
announced Friday.
The 21 institutions also will cooperate to provide expertise and research
for federal agencies. The pairings will be announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
The Midwestern universities in the University Consortium for Research and
Development are: Indiana, Purdue, University of Missouri, University of
Wisconsin, Iowa State, University of Minnesota and Ohio State.
The 14 historically black universities are: Xavier, Clark Atlanta, Florida
A&M, Howard, North Carolina A&T State, Tennessee State, Tuskegee, Alabama A&M,
Hampton University, Jackson State, Prairie View A&M, Texas Southern, the
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Delaware State College.
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'The importance of this historic alliance cannot be overestimated, said
Indiana University President Thomas Ehrlich, co- chairman of the consortium
steering committee. ' ' By the year 2020, minorities will constitute 35 percent of
the United States population. It is imperative that greater resources be
channeled to historically black institutions so that their graduates and
scholars can make contributions to society commensurate with their potential.
'What we're doing is extending the research infrastructure at historically
black colleges as well as increasing research activity to include more faculty
and undergraduate students, said Xavier President Norman Francis, co-chair of
the steering committee. 'By combining our efforts with major research
institutions, we also will increase the institutional outreach of major
institutions.
'We think this is a great opportunity for sharing in a way that has not
been done in the past. It's a win-win. We see this coming together as a forge
that will strengthen both halves, Francis said.
Each partnership includes two black institutions and one Midwestern
university. The research links were formed on the basis of mutual research
interests and past relationships.
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Black colleges and universities vary in their capacity to conduct research
in much the same degree as majority institutions. But organizers say all black
institutions need support, some for faculty and student development, others for
books, laboratory equipment and construction, and many for both.
The leading black colleges are capable of high quality research and want to
expand their research services to the federal government and to improve their
ability to conduct even more sophisticated research.
The University Consortium for Research and Development will seek support
from the federal government to finance faculty and graduate student exchanges on
research projects and for advanced training. The money also could support
graduate fellowships, faculty salary enhancements and electronic data, voice and
video connections.
Undergraduate applications for admission to historically black colleges have
been increasing steadily. Thus, helping. them continue to improve their overall
scholarly capabilities is an important national objective.
'Employers in the next century are going to rely increasingly on minorities
and women, said Robert K. Goodwin, executive director of the White House
Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 'Black colleges and
universities are committed to providing top-level black scientists, engineers
and managers for the nation's employers.
Low numbers of minority graduate students and faculty have been a concern
for years at the nation's major research universities. Participants expect the
partnership to produce higher numbers of black doctoral students, both for
historically black colleges and for the Midwestern research universities.
'Midwestern universities are committed to the education of minority
students, as are most other majority institutions, Ehrlich said. ''The
competition, however, for qualified minority doctoral candidates is keen, and
most schools are unable to enroll all they desire.
'By entering into this historic agreement, the Midwestern institutions are
able to address this need and make a significant contribution to the support of
black higher education.
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September 9, 1990, Sunday
LENGTH: 813 words
HEADLINE: CAMPAIGN OHIO - VOINOVICH TAX PLAN MIRRORS MINNESOTA EDUCATION
DEDUCTIDICK KIMMINSN
DATELINE: CAMPAIGN OHIO
KEYWORD: OH-TAX
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Monsignor James Habiger steepled his hands under his ample chin, leaned back
in his chair and pondered a question about education.
'Your question, of course, really comes down to the matter of choice,' said
the head of Minnesota's Catholic school system, the state's largest private
school network.
''Do we, either your state or mine, continue to spend money on something that
is fatally flawed or do we look for something else to spend it on?''
The answer in Minnesota, at least for the past 45 years, has been to give
its taxpayers a choice in how to spend some of their dollars on the education
of their children.
Since 1955, Minnesota taxpayers have been able to claim a state income tax
deduction for a portion of their children's private school tuition. The cost
of some required school supplies could also be deducted, regardless of whether
the child attended a public or private school.
Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee George Voinovich wants to adopt this
system.
The cost is ''negligible,' said Tom Nelson, commissioner of education for
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the state of Minnesota, which has the highest high school graduation rate in
the United States: 90.9 percent.
But it benefits relatively few people, and those it does benefit are
wealthier than most Minnesota residents. Average Catholic school system
tuition in Minnesota is $ 2,500 a year.
''You are right, the deduction benefits only a few people, but as is the case
in all such education excellence programs, those who benefit from it tend to
benefit a lot,' said Dave Bennett, superintendent of the 34,500- student St.
Paul Public School System.
At the beginning, the maximum deduction was $ 200 per dependent child in any
year. The maximum was raised to $ 1,000 per child in 1985, from $ 700.
Voinovich proposes that Ohio state income taxpayers be allowed to deduct up
to $ 1,500 per child per year for education expenses from their gross
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income.
Last year, about 130,000 Minnesota taxpayers - about one out of three who
filed a return - claimed such expenses. The average deduction was about $ 400
per return. Ninety-six percent of the deductions were taken by parents who send
their children to parochial schools.
In upper-income brackets, $ 100,000 and more, the average deduction was above
$ 900 and in all income categories, the higher the average income, the higher
the education choice deduction.
Wealthier people are more likely to send their children to private schools
than low- or moderate-income people, the figures show.
Overall, the Minnesota program cost its treasury about $ 5 million in
income tax revenues last year.
Voinovich estimates his proposal, with a deduction cap 50 percent higher than
in Minnesota, will cost the Ohio treasury $ 9.3 million a year. Minnesota
has about half as many residents as Ohio.
Minnesota Education Association, the state's largest teacher's union, has
always opposed the Minnesota plan. The Ohio Education Association
strenuously opposes Voinovich's plan as well.
'We still don't like it,'' said Gene Mammenga, chief lobbyist for the
40,000-member Minnesota teacher's union, 'but no one pays any attention to us
anymore on this issue. We just might mail in our speeches to the appropriate
legislative committee during the next budget cycle. They all know now we won't
punish them for refinancing it again.
Mammenga also noted it would be political suicide for legislators to oppose
the income tax deduction, given the extremely high - 50 percent of the
population - number of Catholics in Minnesota.
Anyway, he notes, the plan has not eroded either the enrollment or the state
funding of public schools.
''The (choice deduction) law proved quite quickly what its advocates said it
would do, namely it affects few students. There is a strong ethic here that we
must do what's right for the kids,' he said.
The Minnesota Civil Liberties Union unsuccessfully challenged the
Minnesota plan's constitutionality in 1983. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4
that the plan did not violate the Constitution's mandate of separation of church
and state.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion, noting that the
deduction was ' available to all'' residents of Minnesota, not just to those
who sent their children to Catholic schools.
Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote that Rehnquist's opinion could only be
justified ''in the unlikely event that all citizens of the state buy $ 700 worth
of pencils, notebooks or bus rides for their school -age children.
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Any opposition to the Minnesota plan, said Monsignor Habiger, is only
veiled bigotry against Catholics in general.
''People should be entitled to go to school wherever they want to, he
said. ''Remember, the G.I. Bill was a straight voucher system as well, and that
worked out pretty well.
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(Dick Kimmins is Columbus bureau chief for Gannett News Service.)
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about it. Down deep inside, I just sort of
had a gut feeling; I just sort of knew we's
be activated. It's the timing that's really
stinky. We're buying a house (today) at1
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o'clock. And we just got a dog."
Cariveau said that both she and her hus-
band, a hospital worker, are ready to go
whenever and wherever needed.
St. Cloud couple
Like the other reservists, they will be pro-
cessed and ordered to report on Wednes-
day.
"To be really honest, originally I joined
answer call to duty
for money for school. But I've always re-
ally prided myself that I do live in Ameri-
ca and that's why, when that flag goes up
- like this morning I was getting my sea
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his was to have been a big day for Tammy and Brian
Capt. Earl Wilson of the U.S. Navy Re-
Cariveau; the young marrieds from St. Cloud were set to close on
serve said he expects the activation to be
their first house.
the beginning of a series of recalls.
They will be moving, but to separate barracks down South
"It's my sense that this is the first
instead of a bungalow in Stearns County.
grouping of what will be several reactiva-
The Cariveaus, both 25, were among 46,000 selected recruits
Lions," Wilson said. "They're doing it in a
recalled by President Bush on Friday and two of 14 Navy reser-
phase process, addressing the most emer-
vists from Minnesota activated from the Naval and Marine
gent needs early on."
Corps Reserve Readiness Center in St. Paul. About 75 recalled
Wilson said that the medical personnel
naval reservists from the Upper Midwest will travel to stateside
from many U.S. military bases have been
hospitals this week as part of a national mobilization as part of
sent overseas, and that the newly activat-
the crisis in the Persian Gulf.
ed recruits will fill their medical positions
Tammy Cariveau, an X-ray technician who's headed to
at base hospitals in Annapolis, Md.,
Charleston, S.C., said she finds it regrettable that the Navy opted
Charleston, or Camp Lejeune.
to send her husband to Camp Lejeune, N.C., but she accepts the
Because Minnesota has a high number
military calling. She said she isn't worried about three months
of people trained in health and medical
spent away from her husband of two years.
fields, many have been recalled. Most of
"Not 90 days." she said Sunday. "If it were a year, I'd worry
the reservists called up are enlisted hospi-
tal corpsmen and women, but those ac-
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tivated cover the spectrum of medical
services and include doctors and nurses.
All recruits are activated on a 90-day
set of orders, but Bush can extend their
service for an additional 80 days.
"These are what are called backfills,"
said Petty Officer 1st Class Jay Kuezma.
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on active duty, anything goes.
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C- 130 aircraft
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Gulf. They are all 1) filling vacancies in the Continental US,
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Burmester
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from there are involved in the Gulf.
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drilling. This is the first time that this equipment has been
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dropped everything and volunteered to serve:
nurses and medical technicians in local hospitals
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-insurance sales
loan officer
--VA Hospital administrator
**a man and his wife run home for foster children
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married only 2 weeks.
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home for only a couple of days before he left.
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COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS IN SAUDI ARABIA:
KARE TV, CHANNEL 11
The State Fair was held during the last days of August and
the first few days of September. KARE TV organized KARE-grams
for the public to send to our troops. The response was
tremendous. The messages were then personally delivered by a
reporter from KARE who traveled to Saudi Arabia with Minnesota
Senator Durenberger.
Contact: Carolyn Marinan
(612) 541-8014
WLOL RADIO
WLOL radio in St. Paul is part of the USO network and sends
tapes of radio programming to our troops. They tape 1/2 hour
segments 3 days a week -- at the end of the week, they edit this
to a 90 minute tape. The tapes are sent to the desert at the end
of every week, to a different division each week.
They also have a 24 hour message line, where listeners can
call in and leave a taped message for our troops. At the week's
end, the messages are transferred to the other side of the 90
minute tape and are sent off.
The tapes begin with newsy summaries of what's happening in
the Twin Cities and in the state.
Source:
Eleanor Mondale or Craig
(612) 340-9565
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A MERIDIAN BOOK
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
NEW YORK
PUBLISHED IN CANADA BY
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apprise the anxious public. I sincerely hope there is no foun-
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suspended until I ascertain the true state of affairs.
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per, the
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disapproves of the other missionaries.
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stories about the Mississippi and how high its banks had risen at
tep with
floodtide.
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Biography,
had seen it fifty miles wide at Natchez. Billy Sharp said some tall
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pines on top of a hill on his property bore the high-water marks
on their topmost boughs.
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cleared his throat. "Gentlemen, you don't know what a wide river
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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book-a book
that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which
told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished
secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not
a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story
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OFFICIAL ENTRY
1990
I hereby nominate
South St. Paul
Dakota
Minnesota
(Community)
(County)
(State)
for the
ALL-AMERICA CITY AWARD
FOR
CITIZEN ACTION, EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION
AND COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
a program of
THE NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE
sponsored by
THE ALLSTATE FOUNDATION
T
HE ALL-AMERICA CITY AWARD IS INTENDED AS A CONSTANT REMINDER THAT PEOPLE IN A COMMUNITY CAN
work together to identify and solve their common problems. The 40 year-old AAC Program is a major part of the National Civic
League's effort to encourage and recognize civic excellence. The stories of All-America Cities are the stories of citizens, government and
businesses joining together to make their communities better places to live.
Central to our approach to the issue of civic excellence has been the development of the concept of "civic infrastructure." In our
view, analogous to the physical infrastructure of a community-roads, bridges, buildings-is an equally important civic infrastructure
which is vitally important to the future of the community and equally in need of periodic maintenance and revision. Civic infrastructure
is is a qualitative concept intended for use in evaluating the social and political fabric of acommunity: how decisions aremade, how citizens
interact with one another and government, and how challenges to the community are met.
We have developed a CIVIC INDEX of ten components which we believe constitute a means to evaluate a community's civic
infrastructure. The specific components are less important than the recognition that difficulties in the community are recognized,
confronted, and resolved in ways that involve a braod sampling of the population and a high degree of consensus. The All-America City
program includes the CIVIC INDEX in its application process so that communities will examine their civic infrastructure and find ways
to strengthen it. The ten components of the CIVIC INDEX are presented and described at the back of this application booklet.
COMMUNITY INFORMATION
For the figures provided below, please indicate the year upon which statistics are based and the source of the information.
FORM OF GOVERNMENT City Administrator POPULATION BREAKDOWN by AGE GROUP (if available)
POPULATION
below 18 years
(1988 or most recent) 20.361
18-25
PERCENTAGE CHANGE (+ or -),
26-35
(1970-1988)
-18.6%
36-50
POPULATION DENSITY
51-65
(1988 or most recent) 2.54/household
Over 65
PERCENTAGE MINORITY
WORKFORCE DISTRIBUTION by INDUSTRY
Black
07%
(percentage of total employed in each)
Hispanic
4%
Manufacturing
20%
Asian
2%
Trade (retail/wholesale)
24%
Other
2%
Agriculture
1%
MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME $28.554
Services
55%
PERCENTAGE of FAMILIES
AGE OF HOUSING STOCK
BELOW POVERTY LEVEL 4.5%
(percentage pre-WWII)
70%
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
3.7%
No. VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS 40
All-America City Award Applicant (Does not have to be the same person designated as the program contact)
NAME
Jodelle Ista
TITLE
Chair, South St. Paul Celebrate 1990 Commission
ORGANIZATION
South St. Paul Celebrate 1990 Commission
ADDRESS
1413 Ninth Ave. S.
CITY/STATE/ZIP
South St. Paul, MN 55075
TELEPHONE
(612) 455-4244
SIGNED
DATE
April 19, 1990
All-America City Award Contact (Major contact person available throughout competition and for follow-up)
NAME
Lois Glewwe
TITLE
Secretary
ORGANIZATION
Celebrate 1990 Commission
ADDRESS
105 Tenth Ave. N.
CITY/STATE/ZIP
South St. Paul, MN 55075
TELEPHONE
(612) 457-3403
SIGNED
DATE
April 19, 1990
RULES and INSTRUCTIONS
T
HE ENTRY BLANK SHOULD BE COMPLETED AND MAILED, ALONG WITH TWO (2) PHOTOCOPIES, TO THE ALL-
America City Awards Program, National Civic League, 1601 Grant Street, Suite 250, Denver, CO 80203, at the earliest possible date,
but must arrive no later than 5 p.m., April 20th, 1990. Do not include additional information or sheets. All responses must be completed
within the lines on the pages of the application form. Applicants that include additional materials or pages will be automatically
disqualified. No reduction in type size will be permitted. Type may be no smaller than that of a standard typewriter, 10 or 12 characters
per inch. Enclose $400 filing fee or $300 filing fee if the applicant is a member of the National Civic League. The $400 filing fee includes
a one-year membership in the League. A Screening Committee of civic affairs experts will meet on May 4-5, 1990 in Washington, D.C.
to choose the finalists who will than be invited to send representatives to appear before the All-America City Jury on June 7-9, 1990 in
Phoenix, Ariz., to present the finalists' cases.
1.
Set the background for your community's story. Summarize your community situation, not the projects
described in Question No. 2, but events which contributed to and/or resulted from these projects.
A. The most basic problems and concerns of the community.
B. Extent and nature of citizen participation.
C. Degree of success attained.
D. Emphasize activity since 1986.
South St. Paul, Minnesota is a city which has been in a state of
economic and demographic transition for nearly twenty years. Located on
the Mississippi River at the southern border of St. Paul, the community
has in many ways been isolated from certain aspects of economic growth
and diversification experienced throughout the rest of the metropolitan
area during that time period. That isolation, initially fostered by
South St. Paul's identification as one of the world's largest
meatpacking and livestock markets, was intensified by the lack of open
land for industrial, commercial or residential development. Between 1969
and 1979, the city's two largest meatpacking plants ceased operations,
resulting in the loss of 4,000 jobs. Response to this significant
reduction of the industrial revenue base led to redevelopment efforts,
established under federal assistance programs. Renewal included the
purchase and demolition of more than 100 structures along the city's
main shopping thoroughfare and the realignment of the city's major
roadway to improve connections to area freeway systems. The city
experienced not only a tremendous change in the community's identity,
but in its physical appearance as well.
A. The most basic problem of the city is the lack of a solid economic
base to replace the loss of single-industry support which the city
experienced for more than eighty years. A reliance on reactive, rather
than proactive, solutions has resulted in levels of economic
redevelopment far below the initial expectations of the 1970s. Moving
the community to a new vision of the future, while recognizing the
importance of the city's proud heritage is an ongoing challenge.
B. South St. Paul benefits from a strong base of citizen participation
representing four generations of family tradition and loyalty to the
community. Organizations include ethnic groups, educational
associations, sports clubs, youth and senior citizen programs and strong
religious affiliations.
C. Successes include the creation of several partnerships between
existing organizations and newly established citizen groups in order to
produce effective solutions to identified problems. Citizen
participation has moved into civic and economic policy areas as
individuals have come to realize that their ideas are welcomed. Voter
turnout in local elections increased by 19.4% in 1989 over 1987,
resulting in the selection of a new mayor, the first woman to serve in
that office, and three new councilmembers, two of whom were graduates of
the local South St. Paul Leadership training program established in
1983. The newly-formed Community Task Force exists to bring citizen
ideas and concerns to the same table with elected officials as a
workable and comprehensive plan for economic development is achieved.
D. Besides the three projects identified herein, the community has made
the transition to a city administrator form of government and created a
unique economic development and marketing effort within the Chamber of
Commerce identified as Focus 2000/Progress Plus. Plans for the creation
of a public marina and residential housing project on the site of a
former industrial landfill are in final negotiation. An additional boat
launch site and extensive nature preserve have been approved and will
mark the first time in over one hundred years that the public will have
legal access to the river.
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2. Briefly describe the three main projects that citizens have accomplished in the community since 1986 to merit
an All-America City Award. How does each project relate to the Civic Index? (See Civic Index, attached.)
1. Celebration of the Centennial of South St. Paul, 1887-1987
In 1987 the city sponsored a unique series of more than twenty
events, publications or cable television programs which focused on a
celebration of the ethnic heritage, the pride and the unique traditions
of the city's past. Most significant among the activities were the
publication of a large-format illustrated events calendar which was
distributed free to every home in town; a three-day All-City Reunion
which was attended by over 7,000 former graduates from every state and
five foreign countries, and the creation of a permanent photographic
exhibition known as the South St. Paul Hall of Excellence, an ongoing
annual forum of recognition for current and former residents of the
community who have gone on the achieve excellence in their life's
pursuits. The year-long schedule of events coincided with sales of over
4500 copies of the city's 528-page history. The Centennial project
relates most strongly to Community Vision and Pride and to Volunteerism
and Philanthropy. Each of the events focused on providing the community
with an opportunity to recover from the losses of the past and to focus
on a new vision for the future. More than one-third of the $180,000
budget for the year-long event schedule was contributed by citizens and
businesses through donations and souvenir purchases. The events,
estimated to have been attended by as many as 25,000 people, were
planned and staffed more than 400 volunteers under the coordination of
only one paid employee.
2. Creation and funding of the structural and design plans and documents
for a public walkway along the Mississippi River through the city.
In November 1989, a group of citizen volunteers known as the River
Walkway Committee of R.E.A.P. (River Environmental Action Project),
obtained funding and approval for the creation of plans, structural
drawings and engineering studies necessary to build a public walkway and
trail system along the length of the river in South St. Paul. Town
meetings and public forums brought the conceptual plan before the
community and elected officials for approval. As of April, 1990, the
project is being considered for acquisition funding in the Minnesota
State Legislature. The walkway project relates most strongly to Capacity
for Cooperation and Concensus Building and Intercommunity Cooperation.
The success of this project hinged on the willingness of those in
positions of local leadership to set aside previous alliances and
perceptions and focus on a common goal. The ultimate success then
required expansion of that cooperation to federal, state and county
levels.
3. Acquisition and reclamation of 47 acres of riverfront property
formerly owned by the Armour's meatpacking plant.
In November 1987, the Mayor's Action Team, a partnership of city
officials, redevelopment agency commissioners, business owners, citizens
and school representatives announced the successful $3-1/2-million
funding effort for purchase of the former Armour's meatpacking plant
site on the river. By February, 1990, the massive plant had been
demolished, site improvement funding obtained, and the land cleared and
opened for development for the first time since 1919. The Armour project
relates most strongly to Community Leadership and Government
Performance. Both the purchase concept and the success of the venture
required significant risk, creative vision and close cooperation among
members who represented diversified political and financial interests.
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3. What prompted these actions and how were they organized?
The celebration of the city's Centennial was originally suggested by a
group of local citizens who had been involved in the city's
commemoration of the nation's Bicentennial in 1976. The local chapter
of the historical society also began to search for an author to write a
comprehensive community history. In 1986, the city appointed a volunteer
commission of twelve members to plan a schedule of events for the year
1987. In March 1986, a full-time coordinator was hired by the city and
was also contracted by the historical society to write a city history.
Both the Centennial Commission and the Historical Society served as
volunteer boards to supervise and implement the events, projects,
research and celebrations instituted by the coordinator. More than
thirty specific community organizations and over 400 individual
volunteers assisted at one or more of the twenty-plus events.
As the Centennial drew to a close in November 1987, Community
Partnerships, an organization which sponsors monthly open forum meetings
on critical issues, obtained grant funding to bring the Governor's
Design Team to the city. That group, made up of professional architects
and city planners, spent four days in the city evaluating development
opportunities. When their conceptual plans were unveiled at a final Town
Meeting, the team also suggested that the community create an
organization which could spearhead the research necessary for potential
implementation of the design concepts. That group, known as the River
Environmental Action Project (R.E.A.P.) immediately identified eight
major areas of attention, one of which was the river walkway. The
creation of the River Walkway Conceptual Plan and its eventual regional
and federal designation were the product of the River Walkway Committee,
a task force made up of approximately 6-8 volunteers. The success of the
walkway venture lay in these individuals taking their concepts and ideas
to various forums and working to achieve support, compromise and
commitment to the ultimate project. Finally, state officials from the
district brought the regional participants, local citizens and elected
officials together at one table where the tangible plan for obtaining
funding for the architectural design, engineering studies and
Metropolitan Council approval could be created. The citizens created the
concept; the city commissioned the plans; the county provided grant
funding for those plans and included the walkway in its regional parks
and trail bonding request to the state legislature.
As a result of the closing of the Armour's plant in 1979, the City of
South St. Paul was declared to be an economically depressed area by the
federal government. The reality of that designation led both elected
officials and citizens to focus their attention on what could be done to
bring about the kind of economic success which had been hoped for under
the 1970s urban renewal projects. The only available land was the
abandoned Armour's plant which dominated the city skyline and riverfront
from every direction. A group of citizens, representing members of the
business community, elected officials, the Housing and Redevelopment
Authority, the School District, and residents, began to research the
possible purchase of the land. Forming a partnership known as the
Mayor's Action Team, the group worked to obtain financing and negotiate
clean-up of the site by the original owners. Designation of the area as
appropriate for tax increment financing led to the production of a
financial proposal which would include the acquisition of forty-seven
acres as well as demolition of the existing buildings.
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4. List the principal groups and organizations and the number of members actively involved in these efforts.
Include community action groups organized around the specific issues.
Name
Active Membership
Contribution
South St. Paul Centennial Commission
12
Staffed and managed
20-plus major events.
Dakota County Historical Society
15
Did research, obtained
photographs and sold
more than 4500 books.
All-City Reunion Committee
15
Staffed and planned the
event
R.E.A.P.
35
Coordinated research and
provided education
River Walkway Committee
8
Created consistent
development plans
South St. Paul Community Partnerships
50
Brought the Design
Team to town; initiated a
retreat on economic
development which led to
creation of Armour plan.
Mayor's Action Team
20
Developed the finances
for acquisition and
reclamation of the site.
Progress Plus
25
Obtained funding and
manages the proactive
marketing efforts.
Mayor's Community Task Force
25
Oversees the comprehensive
plan with citizen advice
and input.
5. How did these groups attempt to involve the citizens directly affected by the projects and to what extent were
they successful?
Participation in the many events of the Centennial exceeded all
expectations. In December of 1986, a calendar which highlighted the
year's activities and offered historical tidbits for every day was
distributed to every home in town. Both local newspapers ran weekly
events coverage and state and regional advertising opportunities were
used. Invitations were sent to 14,000 graduates of the high school for
the Reunion Weekend and book and souvenir sales booths were set up
regularly throughout the city. An attempt was made to include all ethnic
and civic organizations so that everyone in the city would feel they
were a part of the celebration. R.E.A.P. used both the local papers and
metro media to promote its concepts and encourage discussion and
support. The first open Town meetings ever held in the city were
exciting and successful. Open forums, presentations to civic groups and
to city council kept the walkway in the forefront no matter how
controversial the subject became. "Mississippi Miles" stock certificates
were sold at $1.00 each, thus including even youngsters in support of
the concept. The Mayor's Action Team was a unique partnership in itself
and kept the public up-to-date on the progress of the acquisition plan
by utilizing the local and metro media to keep the anticipation and
positive reaction to the plan in focus. Focus 2000/Progress Plus has
produced a professional marketing video and media program for successful
site development.
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6. For each of the three efforts, identify three individuals who were active leaders. (Include leaders from the public,
private and nonprofit sectors.)
Name
Address/Phone
Title
All addresses are South St. Paul, MN 55075 - All area codes are 612
Centennial
Lois Glewwe
105 10th Ave. N., 457-3403
Centennial Coordinator
Mary Kaliszewski
231 Dessa Lane, 451-3563
Pres., Hist. Society
Ken Nelson
633 So. Concord, 451-6822
Pres., Drover's Bank
River Walkway
Darrol Bussler
448 14th Ave. N. 455-8466
Comm. Education Dir.
Robert Milbert
308 Deerwood Ct. 451-6188
State Representative
David Hohle
127 10th Ave. S., 450-0115
Chair, River Walkway
Armour Development
Katherine Trummer
223 Stanley, 451-9501
Mayor
Bob Carter Jr.
1514 Deerwood Dr., 451-6147
Chair, Focus 2000
David Metzen
700 N. 2nd St., 457-9400
Supt. of Schools
7. (a) What was the nature of any obstacles to the efforts and from what segments of the community did obstacles
originate?
The Centennial had no significant obstacles.
The River Walkway project confronted resistance from members of the
business/industrial community who feared that recreational access and
greenspace along the river would limit their expansion or even force
them out of the area. Some citizens who had spent their lives in heavy
industry were unable to comprehend how the creation of a walkway had
anything to do with jobs and generation of tax revenue. These problems
were added to issues such as acquisition of the land and the need for
bridging over the railroad in certain areas.
The Armour Project faced opposition from certain taxpayers who felt that
private development was more appropriate for the site. Problems of soil
pollution, demolition costs and acquisition funding were combined with a
general reluctance from former plant workers to see the last landmark of
the past torn down.
(b) How were the specific obstacles overcome?
R.E.A.P. was able to overcome much resistance through its consistent
effort to always present facts accurately and to seek a point of
compromise and collaboration, rather than confrontation. By educating
the public and the business/industrial community about successful urban
waterway projects across the country, they began to make it possible for
people to believe in the concept. Achieving the support of the local
representatives to the state legislature was pivotal in moving the
project from a concept to reality. Congressional Representative, Bruce
Vento, author of the Mississippi River National Park legislation, was
also supportive. By working with skilled planners and architects who
were experienced in trail development, and by including the landowners
along the site in all discussions, successful solutions to access and
acquisition problems were found.
The Armour Project volunteers used the professional skills of creative
individuals in arriving at the purchase and financing proposals and were
persistent in attaining removal of all contaminants by the original
owners of the property. Participants created a celebration out of the
demolition of the old plant, thus drawing the community into
anticipation and excitement over a new vision for the future
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8. What component of the Civic Index would you consider to be the strongest in your community? How was
this achieved?
The strongest component of the Civic Index in South St. Paul is
Community Vision and Pride. This has been achieved by opening the
process of economic development decision making to citizens on every
level. The Chamber of Commerce and its Focus 2000/Progress Plus
volunteers represent businesses of all sizes and focus. Mayor Katherine
Trummer has established monthly open forum meetings where citizens are
welcome to meet with her to discuss any issue. Community Partnerships
has tackled some tough development issues such as the marina housing
project, renovation of one of the city's historical structures and the
Armour Project. The Centennial projects were all focused on creating a
community vision and restoring a sense of pride and identity to the
people of the city. By examining, and even glorifying the livestock
heritage of the city, it was possible to move on from that point without
the sense of loss and grief that pervaded much of the community in 1986.
The River Walkway and other projects of R.E.A.P. all involve long-term
solutions and design concepts rather than providing a "quick fix" to
developmental issues. The City is moving to the establishment of a
community planning department which would bring the development
activities of the city to a proactive agency. The traditions of the
community, its rich ethnic identification and loyalty to family and to
the city all combine into a shared sense of the unique problems and
opportunities of South St. Paul. That pride is displayed through annual
festivals in the Croatian, Serbian, Romanian and Polish organizations
and through the annual summer city festival which is named after the
area's first Indian village, Kaposia.
9. Which Civic Index component would you consider to be the weakest in your community? What construc-
tive steps have been taken to strengthen it?
The component of the Civic Index which is the weakest in South St. Paul
is Intergroup Relations. The fact that there is no identified minority
community or neighborhood has made it difficult to address those
communication problems which do exist. As information has come to the
forefront, several steps have been implemented to deal with each
situation. The School District was one of the first five in the state of
Minnesota to become a participant in Open Enrollment, whereby students
from other metropolitan schools can take advantage of programs within
the South St. Paul District. Our own students also can broaden their
experience by attending outside of the city if they so desire. Community
Partnerships has actively encouraged participation from senior citizens,
as well as high school and junior high students. Ongoing communication
has been established with two new religious congregations in the city,
one Korean and one Egyptian Orthodox. The school district was among the
first in the state to offer an open forum on AIDS in 1987 and more
recently, participants from the Parent Teacher Association have formed a
Parents Communication Network to deal with policies and procedures
concerning drug abuse within the school. An additional cooperative
partnership has also been successful in the past year in saving the
former Serbian Hall from demolition. The volunteers are now seeking to
establish a national cultural center for the interpretation of Eastern
European heritage at the site. South St. Paul Family Services, a
counseling and resource facility, has also become more visible in the
community and is planning programs to help citizens understand that the
age and economic status of our population is changing. Through education
and resource availability, efforts are being made to welcome all into
the decision-making process.
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10. Of the specific techniques that contributed to your community's success, which factors do you feel
others might adopt?
The
key
to the success of the three specific projects identified herein,
as well as to the other events and accomplishments listed, has been the
willingness on the part of local leadership to share power and control.
Establishing that atmosphere of openness means that leadership must be
willing to not only talk about the positive things within a city, but to
also be open about the community's problems. In 1986, when the initial
plans for the Centennial were made, there had never been a city-wide
effort to analyze or discuss the psychological impact of the city's loss
of its industrial base. Any community can benefit from using the
opportunity of an anniversary or a festival to do more than simply
entertain. There was a willingness to let people simply talk about their
memories and to bring into the open the pain, anger and frustration
people felt at the limited success of new economic development within
the past twenty years. One comment stands out. It was made by a high
school senior to the author of the city's history: "I've always been
embarrassed to be from South St. Paul, but now I just have to thank you
for giving me back my hometown. " By adhering to goals and objectives
which identify exactly what the specific psychological goal of a
festival is, a city can literally create a sense of community and pride
in its citizens.
The success of the walkway and the other diversified development
projects of R.E.A.P. is also a story of shared power. When the initial
proposals and plans for the riverfront were met with resistance,
volunteers used existing organizations and the governmental process to
bring about change. They never became aligned with any elected
individual or party, but they were an effective voice in getting out the
vote in April 1989. They convinced people that this time there was a
tangible chance for change. Other communities or grassroots groups can
learn to use non-controversial and non-confrontational avenues to bring
about significant results. By always being accurate, honest and open
about their plans and opinions, the individuals of R.E.A.P. came to be
respected and vocal participants in the planning process at all levels.
Even more importantly, they used experts from outside the community to
present the most controversial of changes. Stepping back and listening
to what others have to say about one's own city is one of the healthiest
and most productive efforts any community can undertake.
Another effective tool for managing change is the use of the local
papers. By submitting timely guest columns and keeping in touch with
reporters, elected officials and citizen volunteers have established
credibility in the media. Communities must learn to offer information
rather than wait for the information to be given back to them on the
front page. All of the projects mentioned used the media effectively and
that sharing of information has proven to have been vital to the
ultimate success of each major development.
South St. Paul has been active in creating unique public/private
partnerships for several years. By using local experts in the private
sector to arrive at solutions to public problems, a city increases every
individual's feeling of ownership of the community. Fostering that sense
of responsibility in each home, each business and each organization is
crucial to building true concensus. The city has also turned over
management of civic arts, human rights, energy, solid waste, recycling,
and dozens of other public policy areas to volunteer commissions. That
sharing of power has been repaid many times over in the creative
contributions made by citizens.
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The Harper Book of
AMERICAN
QUOTATIONS
Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich
A Hudson Group Book
1817
Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco
London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney
153. MINNESOTA
382
383
lation of my fleeting breath, I should have whis-
pered, "Where is Duluth?"
153. MINNESOTA
155.
Ibid.
7 Minnesotans are just different, that's all. On the
1 L'étoile du Nord. (The star of the North.)
day of which I speak, with the wind-chill factor
1 The Fathe
hovering at fifty-seven below, hundreds of them
State motto.
Popular
could be perceived through the slits in my ski mask
Mississi
2 To understand Minnesota it is necessary
that
out ice fishing on this frozen lake. It was cold out
"great r
one respond to youth, forgiving its occasional awk-
there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean,
marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minneso-
2 But what
wardness and egoism for the sake of its healthy
vigor, its color, its alternating self-confidence and
tans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in
great father
self-distrust, its eagerness for experiment. One will
the spring.
has no youn
not expect to find here the mellowness of cities,
ditch, someti
CHARLES KURALT, Dateline America, 1979.
villages, and countrysides in the older states.
liquid mud, si
8 The state seal shows a farmer, a waterfall, a
current choke
Federal Writers' Project, Minnesota: A State
forest, and an Indian riding into the sunset. It
CHARLE
Guide, 1938.
should be changed to ice cubes rampant on a field
3 What a glorious new Scandinavia might not
of white, a grinning, barefoot Swede in a Grain
3 Ol' man ri
Minnesota become! The climate, the situation,
Belt Beer T-shirt riding a snowmobile, and a shiv-
He must k:
the character of the scenery, agrees with our people
ering visitor whose stricken breath is freezing into
He just ke
better than that of any other of the American states,
ice crystals.
along.
and none of them appear to me to have a greater or
Ibid.
OSCAR H
more beautiful future before them than Minnesota.
Showboa
FREDRIKA BREMER, Homes of the New World,
4 The Father
1853.
sea.
154. MISSISSIPPI
4 May your soul be forever tormented by fire and
ABRAHA!
your bones be dug up by dogs and dragged through
Mississip
river traff
the streets of Minneapolis.
1 Virtute et armis. (By valor and arms.)
August 2
GARRISON KEILLOR, Happy to Be Here, 1982.
State motto.
5 The Mississ
5 Duluth! the word fell upon my ear with a pecu-
2 Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis,
is not a comm
liar and indescribable charm, like the gentle mur-
Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of
in all ways rei
veah!
mur of a low fountain stealing forth in the midst
Mexico. It is dotted with little towns concentric
its main bran
of roses; or the soft, sweet accents of an angel's
about the ghosts of the horses and mules once teth-
world-four
whisper in the bright, joyous dream of sleeping
ered to the hitch-rail enclosing the county court-
seems safe to S
innocence.
house and it might almost be said to have only two
in the world, S
JAMES PROCTOR KNOTT, in a speech in the House
directions, north and south, since until a few years
up one thousai
of Representatives, January 21, 1871.
ago it was impossible to travel east or west in it
same ground t
unless you walked or rode one of the horses or
hundred and S
6 Yet, sir, had it not been for this map, kindly
mules.
MARK T1
furnished me by the Legislature of Minnesota, I
WILLIAM FAULKNER, "Mississippi," American
might have gone down to my obscure and humble
Panorama: East of the Mississippi, 1960.
6 When I was
grave in an agony of despair, because I could no-
ambition amon
where find Duluth. Had such been my melancholy
3 Mississippi will drink wet and vote dry-so long
west bank of th
fate, I have no doubt that with the last feeble pulsa-
as any citizen can stagger to the polls.
a steamboatma
tion of my breaking heart, with the last faint exha-
Attributed to Will Rogers.
other sorts, but
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June 12, 1990, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Regional News
DISTRIBUTION: Minnesota
LENGTH: 375 words
HEADLINE: Grunseth picks a woman farmer for lieutenant governor
BYLINE: BY GERALD KOPPLIN
DATELINE: ST. PAUL, Minn.
KEYWORD: GOVERNOR
BODY:
Independent-Republican gubernatorial candidate Jon Grunseth Tuesday
picked a western Minnesota farmer to be his lieutentant-governor candidate.
Sharon Clark, 44, of Madison, president of the Minnesota Corn Growers
Association, was selected by Grunseth to be his running mate.
Clark and her husband, Larry, farm 1,400 acres in Lac Qui Parle County. She
was elected president of the corn growers in january.
This is her first run at public office.
"I am not a professional politician, she said. ''I am a citizen of this
state who has been offered an opportunity to serve the people of this state.
Grunseth said he went to Independent-Republican: legislators for ideas on who
might be a good candidate. House Minority Leader Bill Schreiber, a potato farmer
from Brooklyn Park, was among those who recommended Clark.
The selection of Clark brings a rural-urban balance to the ticket and a
man-woman balance.
The Independent-Republican state convention will be held this weekend in
Duluth.
Grunseth and David Printy are the leading candidates for party endorsement.
Both are businessmen from the Twin Cities. Also seeking the endorsement is Doug
Kelley, a former U.S. attorney.
State Auditor Arne Carlson is not seeking the endorsement and has said he
will run in the Sept. 11 primary election.
Schreiber is a supporter of Grunseth's candidacy.
Grunsenth can run a stronger general election campaign than Printy,
Schreiber said. ''In a primary race between Carlson and Printy, Carlson would be
the winner. Carlson and Grunseth would be too close to call.
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Sandra L. Roy
350 Rolling Hills Dr.
Mound, Mn 55364
612-472-2454
Aug. 25, 1990
President George Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We want to let you know that you have our support. We
appreciate the stand you have taken in deploying troops to Saudi
Arabia. Our son, Staff Sgt. Eric Roy is serving there at this time.
We enjoy and appreciate you taking the time to hold newSconferences.
It assures us about your leadership capabilities. All the best to
your family.
Respectfully,
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THE
SMITHSONIAN
GUIDE TO
HISTORIC AMERICA
THE GREAT LAKES STATES
TEXT BY
SUZANNE WINCKLER
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
ROGER G. KENNEDY
DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF AMERICAN HISTORY
OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY
BALTHAZAR KORAB
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
NEW YORK
THE TWIN CITIES
445
As Saint Paul outgrew its river terrace, it began to expand to
the scenic bluffs overlooking the river. In the 1850s the first
houses-more accurately country estates-were built on the prom-
ontory, but development was impeded by the panic of 1857, the
Civil War, and the panic of 1873. With the boom years of the 1880s
and improved city services permitting access to these bluffs, Saint
Paul's wealthiest and most prominent citizens moved to Summit
Avenue and commissioned the city's prominent architects, includ-
ing Cass Gilbert and James Knox Taylor, to design mansions in the
popular styles of the time. The eastern end of the avenue is a
textbook of late-nineteenth-century residential architecture. While
the largest houses were of the Richardsonian Romanesque style,
most have gone; those that remain are Italianate, Second Empire,
Queen Anne, and Jacobethan. The Burbank-Livingston-Griggs
House (432 Summit Avenue, private), completed in 1865, is a fine
example of the Italian Villa style. At the brow of the bluff stands
the French Baroque Cathedral of Saint Paul (Summit and Selby
avenues), completed in 1915. With its immense copper-clad dome,
it is one of Saint Paul's most commanding structures.
Across from the cathedral stands Summit Avenue's other
monumental structure, the James J. Hill House (240 Summit Ave-
nue, 612-297-2555). The Canadian-born Hill moved to Saint Paul
in 1856, when he was seventeen, to work as a stevedore and clerk
on the Saint Paul levee and eventually amassed a fortune in the
freight business. His paramount achievement was the completion
in 1893 of the Great Northern Railroad between Saint Paul and
Puget Sound; after he gained control, as well, of the Northern
Pacific, Hill had a virtual monopoly on rail traffic between Chicago
and the Pacific Northwest. He built his mansion between 1889 and
1891, at the height of his success. The 36,000-square-foot Richard-
sonian Romanesque structure is no masterpiece-Peabody and
Stearns, its designers, were no Richardsons-but the interior con-
tains elaborate woodwork and stained-glass windows.
F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up near, but not on, Summit Avenue,
and his birthplace still stands at 481 Laurel Avenue (private). In
1919, while writing This Side of Paradise, he lived in an apartment in
Summit Terrace (599 Summit Avenue, private), a Richardsonian
Romanesque rowhouse he described as "a house below the average
on a street above the average."
hing
OPPOSITE: Saint Paul's old Federal Courts Building, now the Landmark Center, was the
scene of several trials of notorious gangsters in the 1930s.
437
CENTRAL MINNESOTA
THE TWIN CITIES
THE TWIN CITIES
wildlife
FORT
SNELLING
refug...
Fort Snelling, built in 1819, was an impressive reminder to the
British and Indians that America was bent on securing its claim to
the Northwest after the War of 1812. The fort, largely rebuilt since
1950, stands on sheer bluffs at the confluence of the Mississippi
and Minnesota rivers, a site Zebulon Pike purchased from the
Dakota during his 1805 journey through the upper Mississippi
region. The Fifth Regiment of Infantry was stationed at the fort
and built mills at Saint Anthony Falls, planted crops, and inspected
traders' goods in transit on the Mississippi. Missionaries gathered
here to instruct Indians clustered in villages around the fort, while
the Columbia and American fur companies built their headquar-
ters nearby. Thus, the fort became a major focal point for trade,
communication, and social life on the upper Mississippi and pro-
vided the nucleus around which Saint Paul and Minneapolis would
y Courthouse, which served the boisterous loggers of
neteenth century.
grow. It declined in importance after 1851 when Indian treaties
opened up lands to the west and other forts, such as Fort Ripley,
assumed its responsibilities.
ter was the Saint Croix Valley's major
The garrison was originally called Fort Saint Anthony, but in
nd the site of the impromptu 1848
1825 the name was changed to honor Colonel Josiah Snelling, the
by the leading settlers-including
commander responsible for its design and construction. Made of
Sibley-which led to the formation
locally quarried limestone, the buildings within the diamond-
1 1849. The site of the convention is
shaped compound included barracks, commandant's and officers'
and Myrtle streets. The town's com-
quarters, a sutler's store, and a school (the first on the upper
rous structures from the lumbering
Mississippi). These structures were enclosed by a massive stone
n Karst Building (125 South Main
wall, punctuated at the four corners with sentry towers. Much of
aples Block (119 South Main Street,
the fort has been restored or reconstructed, and costumed inter-
sior Block (120 North Main Street,
preters reenact nineteenth-century life at the fort.
ton County Courthouse (101 West
a monumental brick and stone struc-
LOCATION: Fort Snelling exits off Routes 5 and 55. HOURS: May
alianate elements, is one of the oldest
through October: 10-5 Daily. History Center: May through October:
The courtroom has been restored to
10-5 Daily; November through April: 9:30-5 Monday-Friday. FEE:
riginal furnishings, and photos detail-
For History Center. TELEPHONE: 612-726-1171.
ng are on display. The Washington
OLD MENDOTA
(602 North Main Street, 612-439-
ate prison warden's house, contains
The oldest permanent white settlement in the state, Mendota sits at
tools, nineteenth-century costumes
the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers and takes its
ems.
name from the Dakota term for "meeting of the waters." Fur
TAKE
THE INTERIOR
United States Department of the Interior
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
MR
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
TRANSMISSION NOTICE
This message is electronically transmitted on a Canon L-90 or a Burroughs
DEX 6500 automatic machine.
TRANSMISSION NUMBER:
202/208-5048
(FAX - L920)
FTS: 208-6950 (DEX 6500)
VERIFY NUMBER:
FTS: 208-6639
202/208-6639
TO:
Carolyn Cawley
AGENCY: 456-6218
STEVE GOLDSTEIN 202/208-6416
FROM:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
1849 C STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
Carolyn, attached is the information on the
Duck Stampartist, tim Hantman. Heis some from
Plymouth, MN. I'm getting you
other information. Thanks, Steve
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IM HAUTMAN AND THE FEDERAL
At 25. Jim Hautman has emerged on the
DUCK STAMP PRINT PROGRAM
wildlife art scene as a true contender in the
highly competitive field of conservation
The Federal Duck Stamp Print program is
stamp design contests and limited edition
evered by collectors and through the years
prints.
as become the nation's most popular and
Accuracy, attention to detail and dramatic
respected series in limited edition print
impact are all characteristics that set Haut-
history.
man's work apart from other artists. His
Fine art collectors have come to expect the
unique combination of style and form have
very best from this historic program. and
garnered him several first place honors in
im Hautman's impressive design of black-
the highly competitive field of conservation
bellied whistling ducks in flight continues
stamp design contests. particularly the pres-
the 56-year tradition of offering collectors
tigious Federal Duck Stamp contest in
the finest quality artwork by premier wildlife
November, 1989.
artists. His original design was selected
Since 1988 his dramatic paintings have
from a field of 603 entries in the contest.
earned him first place honors in the Dela-
The Federal Duck Stamp Print is a classic
ware, Nevada and Minnesota Duck Stamp
American art form. What began as the first
competitions. He also placed second in the
annually-issued revenue stamp, has become
Minnesota Pheasant and Pennsylvania Duck
the most collectible stamp print series in
Stamp contests.
U.S. history.
1990 91 Federal Duck Stamp Design
Hautr an's interest in pursuing an art career
is not surprising considering both his
parents are artists, and his brother, Robert,
is a nationally recognized wildlife artist.
"Art," says Hautman, "is something that
I've always done. I don't remember when
I started drawing, but I do know that my
parents have always encouraged me in
whatever I pursued."
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CHANCE ENCOUNTER-RED FOX
Hautman's decision to paint
outdoor subjects, primarily wildlife,
can be traced to his parents' influ-
ence. "My dad is a great sports-
man," says Hautman. "Much of
what I know about nature I learned
from him. He taught me many of
the little things about hunting and
fishing. He also instilled in me an
appreciation and awareness of the
outdoors. My mother is an artist
and she encouraged me to pursue
an art career after high school.
Painting wildlife seemed to be the
natural choice for me."
WOLF PACK
MORNING FLIGHT- WIGEONS
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What brought it all together for Hautman was
seeing his father paint wildlife subjects. "Although
my father has never pursued painting wildlife as a
profession," says Hautman, "he very much
enjoyed painting his favorite duck hunting scenes.
We have several of his paintings where he paints
the sky just full of wave upon wave of ducks. Those
paintings really inspired me."
SPRING CARDINAL
LOCAL LEGEND
After high school graduation, Hautman enrolled at
the University of Minnesota to study art. After two
quarters, he left to pursue art on his own.
"They didn't teach me what I wanted to know,"
explains Hautman with a grin.
"I worked at several odd jobs and painted the rest
of the time," says Hautman. "I knew I wanted to be
a wildlife artist. I also knew the fastest way to gain
a reputation in the field was to win some stamp
contests." Hautman focused exclusively on his new
vocation. Taking first place honors in three state
contests gave Hautman a foothold in the wildlife
art market. To date, he has also released four
limited edition prints and recently completed a
series of commission paintings for Northern States
HIDDEN WATER-WOOD DUCKS
Power Company and the sponsor print for the
Minnesota Waterfowl Association
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Hautman makes his home in Plymouth, Minne-
sota, a suburb of Minneapolis. He lives with his
brother, Robert, a wildlife artist who won the
Minnesota duck stamp competition in 1988.
These back-to-back victories by brothers is
unprecedented in the history of stamp competi-
tions. The Hautman brothers share a sense of
friendly competition-and often critique
each other's work.
1988 Delaware Duck Stamp Design
1988 Nevada Duck Stamp Design
CHIPMUNK AND ARTIST'S MUSHROOM
Solid research is the basis for each
Hautman painting. Nothing is too
extreme for him to do in gathering
information. Last year for instance,
Hautman created a special floating duck
blind. It resembled a muskrat house,
but Hautman was inside it in waders.
The contraption allowed him to move in
quite closely and observe the ducks
without disturbing them. "The only
thing they really noticed," says
Hautman, "was the sound of the
camera's shutter."
Jim Hautman has exhibited his work
BIG THUNDER-BUFFLEHEADS
at the Wildlife and Western Art Exhibition.
When Hautman isn't at the easel. he can
the Minnesota Wildlife Heritage
Foundation Show. both in Minneapolis, and
often be found pursuing his favorite
hobbies of skiing, hockey, or conducting
at the Michigan Wildlife Habitat
Foundation Art Show in Grand Rapids. His
research for his next painting. An avid
sportsman, Hautman enjoys hunting
work is held in private collections and
and fishing. Both give him inspiration
available in galleries throughout the U.S.
for his paintings. "Ideas," says Hautman,
and Canada.
"are not a problem for me. Time,
rather, is what 1 wish I had more of.'
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09/13/1990 11:00 FROM EPA-OFFICE PUBLIC AFFAIRS TO
82024566218 P.09
MINNESOTA
WISCONSIN
ILLINOIS
The State's Pollution Control Agency
The State has begun a long-term
The Prairie State has aggressively
celebrated its 20th anniversary in
strategic planning process to help
tackled the problem of hazardous
1987 and can take pride in the fact
meet future environmental needs
waste destruction by establishing
that the Conservation Foundation
and problems and is working on new
a mobile incinerator program.
ranks the Land of 10,000 Lakes
codes to regulate dredging. This
A mobile incineration unit is being
number one environmentally among
promises to be a model piece of
used to destroy wastes and
our 50 States. Minnesota was first
legislation for the Badger State,
contaminated soils during cleanup
in EPA Region 5 to receive authori-
which is also keeping a close watch
of hazardous waste sites under a
zation for running the Federal
on Great Lakes hot spots, or "areas
State program similar to EPA's
hazardous waste management
of concern," in its territory. The
Superfund.
program and one of the first with
focus is on Sheboygan, where fish
its own Superfund hazardous waste
and sediment are heavily contami-
cleanup program. New legislation
nated with PCB's, and on Green Bay,
prohibits placing unprocessed garbage
for which a cleanup plan was
in landfills after 1990 and comes to
approved in February 1988.
grips with controlling pipelines and
underground storage tanks.
+
From EPA Regams publication
our Air, our Land our water sept 1988
9
6
12:45
Langer -
I just received this fax from
the MN Regional EPA. It describes some great
programs, but unfortunately - -most are
accompershments at GOV. Perpich. " "
However, there are some interesting state on
the land of 10, 000 lakes:
Minnesota is a national. leader in:
-- quality of drinking H2O
- - Zir genality
- - rated ± I in conservation
- - recreational environment
Plus: "dean lakes "program - very successful @ Big Stone Lake, MN.
See pages of & 10 of the fax.
Carolyn
Great stuff!
MN info from Interior
1 the Duck Stamp artist this year in from NN.
lits what hunters and to get in Mder to hunt)
The artists' position is a coveted one. POTUS heaving
endorser the stamp; has already met 9 done photo upp
w/ the artist
Interior PAO will And more info on that + ther
MN interial on lakes in parks.
Also aire call fish/ Widelife people.
Material on
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90TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright (c) 1990 Chicago Tribune Company;
June 90 visit
-A Minusota
Chicago Tribune
June 4, 1990, Monday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1; ZONE: C; Gorbachev in America
Gorbys visit to MN
LENGTH: 1144 words
HEADLINE: Gorbachev steadfast despite U.S. pressure
-possible material
Heartland stopover polishes leader's image
for wear/humos
BYLINE: By Charles M. Madigan and Rogers Worthington, Chicago Tribune
DATELINE: MINNEAPOLIS
BODY:
Mikhail Gorbachev traded the dry detail of Washington summitry Sunday for
a dash into the American heartland, where he asked a gold-plated group of top
American business leaders for help with his troubled economic reforms.
This fine-tuned, eight-hour stopover seemed to move at the speed of light and
signaled the beginning of the end of the Soviet president's visit. He flew to
San Francisco Sunday night and will return to the Soviet Union after a day
there.
Only the weather refused to cooperate Sunday. Cold rain and high winds held
down the size of the crowds and made conditions 50 miserable that a plan for the
Gorbachevs to trudge through the muck of a nearby dairy farm was mercifully
abandoned.
The Soviet president arrived in Minnesota a few hours after he and
President Bush held a final Washington news conference to underline the
importance of their summit session.
"We have moved a long way from the depths of the Cold War," Bush said as he
and Gorbachev sat at the table where they signed agreements Friday to cut
long-range nuclear weapons, halt production of chemical weapons and set specific
terms for lifting trade barriers against Moscow.
Gorbachev and Bush could not blunt two of the sharpest thorns in the new
Soviet-American relationship - the status of Lithuania, currently under an
economic embargo by Moscow because of its independence declaration; and the
reunification of Germany.
Diplomatic subordinates are to continue work on the German question, but
Gorbachev hung tough on others. He said Soviet law provides an avenue for
secession from the USSR (he didn't note that it takes five years), and he
threatened to slow Soviet Jewish emigration without assurances from Israel that
new immigrants won't be settled in traditionally Palestinian areas.
With that out of the way, he headed for the heartland.
Minneapolis and St. Paul have been preparing for weeks. Lt. Gov. Marlene
Johnson said the sturdy Scandinavians and Germans who populate this state
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viewed the Gorbachev visit the same way they would a visit from an important
aunt:
"Company is coming. So clean everything."
The highway from the Air Force Reserve airport to the city was spruced up.
Residents along the route planted thousands of colorful petunias. The car parts
that are flora and fauna of the modern American urban highway were collected and
disposed of.
Almost anything that could be handily rendered into the Cyrillic alphabet was
- the evening weather report, headlines in the newspapers and the T-shirts on
the U.S. West telephone crews at the vast Metrodome media center.
In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, staged several
of the almost frantic walkabouts that have become the Soviet leader's most
successful public relations tactic during visits to the U.S.
After their airport caravan of huge Soviet Zil limos roared to within a block
of Minnesota Gov. Rudy Perpich's official residence in St. Paul, where a
luncheon was scheduled, the Gorbachevs bounded out for a brisk walk through the
crowds to the mansion.
"We love you," shouted one teenage girl in the crowd at the governor's
mansion. "Gorby! Gorby! Gorby!" chanted another group. There were also chants
for freedom for Lithuania and its Baltic sisters, Latvia and Estonia, but no
disruptions.
Each time Gorbachev changed direction, squeals and cheers erupted in the
crowd as people tried to push or shove their way toward a handshake, or at least
a closer look. Nervous security agents kept a close, almost impenetrable ring
around the Soviet leader.
But true to form, Gorbachev - who works a crowd every bit as well as did the
legendary Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, a Minnesota Democrat - still managed to
find many hands to pump. All the time, he wore that broad, pleasant smile that
seems so out of place on the face of a Soviet leader.
"He is an amazing political influence," said Nathan Slowinski, a trainer for
a St. Paul computer company. "Being here is an opportunity to acknowledge the
salutory effect he has had on American policy. He has had a bigger impact on it
than any American in the past three years."
"It's a chance to see history," said Michael Knispel, an oil tank excavator
who drove down with his wife and four children from Isanti, Minn.
As elevating as the cheers of the crowd may have been, Gorbachey's more
important performance was subdued, coming before about 140 key American business
leaders who gathered in the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel to listen to his
speech and ask questions.
Almost everyone who is anyone in businesses ranging from finance (American
Express) to poultry (National Poultry Producers) was invited. All guests were
selected from lists provided to the Soviet Embassy.
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"Sixth," the boy replied.
"That's as old as my granddaughter," Gorbachev said.
He then stepped into his long black Zil limousine and proceeded on a
motorcade through the streets of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The Soviet leader
twice stopped the motorcade 50 he could clamber out of the Zil and shake hands
with eager, cheering Minnesotans.
At one stop, as Gorbachev held his hands out to a throng of approximately 80
onlookers, a U.S. official murmured: "He ought to run for office here."
Two admirers handed Raisa Gorbachev a sign that featured a heart and the
message: "We love Mikhail (and) Raisa Gorbachev. = The Soviet first lady
waved the sign at the crowd.
Minnesotans offered other encouraging words on the placards they held along
the motorcade route: "Go Glasnost," "President Gorbachev, Keep Hope Alive" and
"We're With You, Gorby." One that may have defied translation was the sign
lauding "Mr. Gorbachev: A Cool Dude."
Gorbachev found the largest crowd, several thousand Minnesotans, waiting
along the driveway to the state Capitol in St. Paul. A large minority were
Baltic-American nationalists waving Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian flags.
While waiting, the Baltic-Americans tried to inspire the crowd with a chant,
"Negotiations. No occupations."
But a group of young university students drowned out the chant with a
well-known chant from a beer commercial, "Tastes great. Less filling." Even the
Baltic-Americans laughed.
One Minnesotan in the crowd told his wife: "He's an amazing charmer. Not
folksy, but you respect him. He's quite a guy."
Throughout the region, residents planned their day around the Gorbachev
visit. Road crews rose early Sunday morning, braving a chill and driving rain to
line 15 miles of Interstate 35 from the airport through downtown with shining
new bright orange plastic highway cones to mark off Gorbachev's motorcade route.
Portable highway signs that normally flash messages like "Traffic Delay" and
"Construction Next 10 Miles" were reprogrammed to display "Welcome President
Gorbachev" in English and Russian.
The obvious purpose of the Soviet leader's visit here, as well as his next
stop in San Francisco, where Gorbachev was to arrive about 10:30 p.m. PDT, was a
combination of trade and tourism.
"This is an opportunity for him to get out and see the United States," said
Jack F. Matlock, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow. He noted that during Gorbachey's
previous two summit trips to the United States, the Soviet leader saw only
Washington and New York.
The visit also gave Gorbachev an opportunity to meet with Midwestern business
leaders, from both agribusiness and high technology, in an afternoon
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HEADLINE: REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK;
Gorbachev Passes Up Stunts But Dazzles the Heartland
BYLINE: By MAUREEN DOWD, Special to The New York Times
DATELINE: MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. , June 3
BODY:
Mikhail S. Gorbachev took a pass on Cher, who offered to fly into
Minnesota today after her Chicago concert appearance to meet with the Soviet
President.
He also shrugged off the Minnesota farmer who wanted to bring an 850-pound
Ha.
pig to any spot along the motorcade where Mr. Gorbachev, a farm worker in his
HA!
youth and a former Agriculture Secretary, might be able to admire such a prize
American parker.
He declined to stop by the wedding reception of a Minneapolis bride who
wanted to save him a dance. Nor did Mr. Gorbachev get together with the northern
Minnesota horse breeder who was thinking of emigrating to Leningrad.
Skips Farm Visit
Running behind schedule, he canceled his trip to the dairy farm of Richard
and Cecilia Brand, who had been painting their house and planting flowers and
brushing their herd of 250 Holsteins, among them 80 milking COWS with an annual
production of 20,000 pounds per COW.
But none of that mattered. Mr. Gorbachev did not need Cher or super-pigs or
any other gimmicks to help him dazzle the heartland. Braving 49-degree gray,
drizzling weather that people here called ''a Siberian cold front,' Mikhail
and Raisa Gorbachev created a sensation on their whirlwind trip to the Twin
Cities.
Proving Himself to Soviets
'We were supposed to maintain our composure and not become complete babbling
idiots, apologized one excited television commentator. ''But this really is
something to see.
Surrounded everywhere by screaming, adoring crowds with cameras and video
cameras who chanted ''Gorby, Gorby,' including a man on stilts dressed as Uncle
Sam and waving a Soviet flag, he accomplished exactly what he needed to.
He promoted his country to a high-powered group of chief executives and waded
into the crowd several times, producing shots for the evening news that will
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No doubt he'll want to visit one of the many Fortune 500 companies
headquartered here. He might even get his picture on a Wheaties box. And
speaking of fortune, we have an uncommon number of millionaires, and that's
okay. You're allowed to be a millionaire but you should feel guilty about it and
give heavily to charity.
And let's not forget hockey. This is the state that furnished half the hockey
team that beat the Soviets in the 1980 Olympics. It's rumored that Minnesota
kids are born with skates on. We love hockey. For real excitement, Gorbachev
must see a youth hockey game. And if he thinks those demonstrations at Red
Square are hard to handle, wait'll he sees hockey parents.
Gorbachev should know that Gov. Rudy Perpich is a "no-frills" governor. He
drives his own car, 50 there will be no limousines. In fact, Perpich may ask him
to take the wheel for a while. But it's easy to drive here. Just go as slow as
you like in the left lane. You don't have to worry about turn signals. And if
you see a yellow light, step on the gas.
A man familiar with Siberia would appreciate a look at a Minnesota
ice-fishing house. As soon as winter arrives, the houses are pulled out onto
frozen lakes, holes are drilled in the ice and anglers watch the Vikings on TV.
Some of these houses have become 50 splendiferous they'd put Donald Trump's Taj
Mahal to shame.
We're all happy that Gorbachev will make a stop in America's heartland. We
expect to turn out in record numbers. But in case we don't, he shouldn't feel
slighted: The fish must be biting.
Charlie Boone and Roger Erickson have hosted the popular Boone & Erickson
morning radio show on WCCO in Minneapolis for more than 25 years.
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TYPE:
NATIONAL NEWS, FOREIGN NEWS
SUBJECT:
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NAMED-PERSONS:
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GRUNSETH
FAX
For Governor Cover Sheet
1821 University Avenue South Suite 301 North
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104
(612) 641-0287
(612) 641-1354 FAX
To:
Carolyn Cawley
From: Candace Peterson
Date:
9/10 9/20/90
Number of pages:
4
(Including this one.)
Comments: As per your request
SEP 19 '90 10:03
P.2
1st generation American
BACKGROUND
Minnesota's own
Jon Grunseth
Like so many of us, Jon Grunseth was born in the Minnesota countryside and even
attended a one-room school for a time. Today that countryside is the suburbs and the
small school long gone.
Jon spent his first eight years leading a life we would call idyllic, living in a home
his father had transformed from a barn. He had a brother and two sisters, they played,
they swam. they celebrated the 4th of July like so many of us.
This life might have continued for Jon Grunseth right into adulthood. But it didn't.
This was the time of polio, and Jon was one of its victims. Through this adversity. a
different Jon Grunseth was born. Polio was to shape Jon Grunseth into the kind of man
that would never see a situation and say "I can't do it." As Jon began the long recovery
from iron lung to leg braces to swimmer, he learned the lessons of perseverance, setting
goals and doing the hard work necessary to be successful.
Jon went on to graduate from college where he was a nationally-ranked swimmer.
After his stint in the army, politics already in his blood, Jon worked for the
Minnesota Republican Party and went to Washington as Chief-of-Staff to a U.S.
Congressman, honing his political skills for the day when he would seek the office of
Minnesota Governor.
Today, Jon is vice president of Ecolab, Inc. and lives in Afton with his wife Vicki
Tigwell Grunseth, and two of his four daughters, Lucia and baby Maryanne. They live
a life not unlike many of us. They enjoy the outdoors, the water and doing things
together as a family.
In everything Jon says and does, it is clear that his love and concern for Minnesota
and America is an integral part of Jon Grunseth the person, the candidate. This has been
shaped in part by his father. a Norwegian immigrant, who came to America to seek a
better life for the family he would one day have. "My mother comes from a family of
wheat farmers and my father was an immigrant. That is a combination that brings to
a child the value of hard work and fairness to all," Jon often says. "I care about
Minnesotans. I share their dreams, their hopes and their fears. I want to be Governor
because I believe I can make a difference, that I can bring the experiences of my life
to the process and make it better for all of us."
SEP 19 '90 10:03
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Memo to: Candace Peterson
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From:
Vicki Grunseth
voter ID effortused camp volunteers
Please send the biography of Jon to the White House. Also, here is
some additional information that may be helpful.
Jon and his family have many ties to the President. In 1980 and
again in 1984, Jon's mother, Louise Brunsdale, was Volunteer
Director at the Reagan/Bush HQ in Washington. In between she
worked for Jeane Kirkpatrick in the U.N. Jon's aunt, Anne Brunsdale,
is the Chair of the International Trade Commission (she is actually
acting Chair having served out her term as Chair). She was
appointed to the Commission by President Reagan and appointed
Chair by President Bush (I think). in 1984, Jon was National
Chairman of Norwegians for Reagan/Bush. Jon and I served on the
Minnesota Steering Committee for Bush/Quayle in 1988.
When President Bush was last in Minnesota, Jon introduced him at
the lunch at the Carleton. I think it was 1985. He told a funny story
about researching why Mondale carried Minnesota in 1984. He told
them he hired a pollster and after hours or pouring over the data, he
discovered the truth--It was the Swedes. That of course is only
funny if you think Scandinavian jokes are funny.
One of the phrases Jon has used ad nauseum in this campaign is in
his introduction of Sharon Clark. Whenever he introduces Sharon and
talks about her background, he always says, "Isn't it about time we
had a hog farmer on the ticket?"
I have called Evie Axdahl for her latest collection of Norwegian
jokes.
chief prin. opponent NOW agreed to MC event
SEP 19 '90 10:04
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Jon Grunseth Profile/Bio
JONGRUNSETH
Box 55, Afton, Mn. 55001
641-0287
Jon Grunseth is the endorsed Republican candidate for Governor. He
is also the Republican Primary winner by an overwhelming margin.
Married to Vicki Grunseth, he has four daughters Nina, Lucia,
Katharine and Maryann.
A graduate of Luther College, Jon studied as a Bush Fellow at
Georgetown University, and is a graduate of the University of
Minnesota School of Management Executive Program. He also served
in the U.S. Army from 1968 - 1970.
Born in Minnesota on November 11, 1945, He graduated from high
school at West High School in Minneapolis in 1963.
Jon has an extensive history on behalf of the Republican Party and
its candidates, including serving as Chief of Staff to Congressman
Larry Pressler.
In 1978 he joined Ecolab, a St. Paul based Fortune 500 company, as
its youngest officer in history. During these 12 years, he has
continued to serve as an officer of Ecolab as part of a management
team that has taken the company from $400 million in sales to over
$1.3 billion today.
His many civic activities accomplishments include being of
member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Chamber of
Commerce, the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, KTCA Television,
Minnesota Public Radio, Co-Chair of the Governor's Commission on
Pipeline Safety , an appointment by President Reagan to the National
Pipeline Safety Commission and the Indianhead Council of Boy
Scouts of America.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MINNESOTA POLITICAL BACKGROUND REPORT
1990 ELECTION UPDATE
GOVERNOR:
The latest polling data shows Grunseth leading Perpich by a
46% to 43% margin. (Minneapolis Tribune/KSTP - 09/21/90)
Rudy Perpich will be seeking his third term as Governor in
1990 with incumbent Lt. Gov. Marleen Johnson as his running
mate. Perpich is pro-life and Johnson is pro-choice. The
Governor won a hard fought primary against pro-choice former
State Commerce Commissioner Michael Hatch on September 11,
1990 by a 56%-42% margin.
Independent-Republican endorsed candidate Grunseth won a
close primary battle against State Auditor Arne Carlson and
Doug Kelly, a former Chief of Staff to Dave Durenberger.
Grunseth's margin of victory was less than a majority
(Grunseth 49%, Carlson 32%, Kelly 17%), however, he did
engineer a come from behind upset of Carlson. Carlson, the
more moderate and pro-choice candidate, was hurt by Grunseth
charges about being in favor of raising taxes, gun control,
and soft on crime. These ads coupled with an aggressive
GOTV effort made the difference for Grunseth. Grunseth's
running mate for the November election will be Minnesota
businesswoman Sharon Clark.
Recent surveys show that Perpich is very beatable. He is an
eccentric Governor whom Newsweek labeled "Governor Goofy."
Grunseth and Perpich are both opposed to abortion. Grunseth
has said he opposes higher taxes but did not make a promise
not to raise taxes. Both candidates will most probably
focus the fall election on the environment, jobs, taxes and
spending, and crime.
U.S. SENATE:
Incumbent U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz (IR) is running for
his third term this year. Boschwitz easily defeated John
Zeleniak for the Independent-Republican nomination. Jesse
Jackson's 1988 state campaign manager Paul Wellstone won the
Democratic-Farm-Labor nomination on September 11, 1990, by
defeating state Agricultural Commissioner Jim Nichols by a
65% to 25% margin.
MINNESOTA POLITICAL BACKGROUND REPORT
PAGE TWO
Boschwitz should have an easy time defeating Wellstone, from
both a financial and name recognition standpoint. The
Boschwitz campaign plans to raise a $7 million warchest for
the general election. Wellstone has indicated he hopes to
raise a total of $2 million through the November election.
In an attempt to link Senator Boschwitz to the S&L debacle,
Wellstone has called on Boschwitz to return the $34,000 in
political contributions he received from savings and loan
interests during the 1980's. Wellstone has also backed a
plan, introduced in Congress by Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA),
that would levy a surtax on wealthy individuals and
corporations to pay for the S&L bailout.
A Pioneer Press/WCCO poll, conducted 7/20-24, shows
Boschwitz is "the most popular of the state's major
officeholders." His favorability ratings stand at 58%
favorable and 39% unfavorable.
CONGRESSIONAL RACES:
MINNESOTA 1
Republican Doug Anderson is challenging Democrat incumbent
Tim Penny in the November election.
MINNESOTA 2
Republican incumbent Vin Weber is facing Democrat challenger
Jim Stone in the November general.
MINNESOTA 3
Incumbent Republican Bill Frenzel is not seeking re-election
in 1990. State Senator Jim Ramstad won the Independent-
Republican nomination for the 3rd district and is facing DFL
candidate Louie DeMars in the November general election.
According to FEC reports, Ramstad "has the biggest campaign
fund of any candidate for an open House seat this year."
Ramstad has $340,340 to DFL opponent DeMars' $66,078.
MINNESOTA 4
Republican Ian Maitland is challenging Democrat incumbent
Bruce Vento in the November election.
MINNESOTA POLITICAL BACKGROUND REPORT
PAGE THREE
MINNESOTA 5
Republican Raymond Gilbertson is challenging Democrat
incumbent Martin Sabo in the general election.
MINNESOTA 6
Republican Bruce Anderson is challenging Democrat incumbent
Gerry Sikorski in the November election.
MINNESOTA 7
Republican incumbent Arlan Stangeland is facing former DFL
State Senator Collin Peterson in the November election. A
poll commissioned by Peterson and conducted by the North
Dakota Bureau of Government Affairs shows Stangeland with
a favorable rating of 30% and an unfavorable rating of 52%,
with 17% undecided. This is considered a close race.
MINNESOTA 8
Republican Jerry Shuster is challenging Democrat incumbent
Jim Oberstar in the November general election.
STATE LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK:
The DFL controls both the State House and State Senate in
Minnesota. However, in 1988, all 134 House seats were up
for election and the Independent-Republicans gained two
seats.
The entire state Legislature will face re-election in 1990.
Twenty incumbents will run unopposed in the general and six
will face only an independent in the November election. The
IR's are campaigning to capture the state Legislature (they
need 14 more House seats and 11 more in the Senate) but the
DFL is using a platform of reduced property taxes, even in
IR suburban strongholds, in an attempt to hold control.
GENERAL POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE
The BUSH-QUAYLE ticket lost Minnesota by a 54% to 46% margin in
the 1988 Presidential campaign. Minnesota ranked first in the
nation in voter turnout in 1988 with an estimated 65.4% of the
registered voters going to the polls in November.
Independent-Republican Senator David Durenberger will be up for
re-election in 1994.
MINNESOTA POLITICAL BACKGROUND REPORT
PAGE FOUR
The Minnesota Independent-Republican Party is currently in the
process of putting together an independent study commission to
discuss Redistricting. In 1991, Minnesota is not expected to
gain or lose any of its 8 Congressional seats in the
Redistricting process.
BACKGROUND
Minnesota's own
Jon Grunseth
Like so many of us, Jon Grunseth was born in the Minnesota countryside and even
attended'a one-room school for a time. Today that countryside is the suburbs and the
small school long gone.
Jon spent his first eight years leading a life we would call idyllic, living in a home
his father had transformed from a barn. He had a brother and two sisters. they played.
they swam, they celebrated the 4th of July like so many of us.
This life might have continued for Jon Grunseth right into adulthood. But it didn't.
This was the time of polio, and Jon was one of its victims. Through this adversity, a
different Jon Grunseth was born. Polio was to shape Jon Grunseth into the kind of man
that would never see a situation and say "I can't do it." As Jon began the long recovery
from iron lung to leg braces to swimmer, he learned the lessons of perseverance, setting
goals and doing the hard work necessary to be successful.
Jon went on to graduate from college where he was a nationally-ranked swimmer.
After his stint in the army, politics already in his blood, Jon worked for the
Minnesota Republican Party and went to Washington as Chief-of-Staff to a U.S.
Congressman, honing his political skills for the day when he would seek the office of
Minnesota Governor.
Today, Jon is vice president of Ecolab, Inc. and lives in Afton with his wife Vicki
Tigwell Grunseth, and two of his four daughters, Lucia and baby Maryanne. They live
a life not unlike many of us. They enjoy the outdoors, the water and doing things
together as a family.
In everything Jon says and does, it is clear that his love and concern for Minnesota
and America is an integral part of Jon Grunseth the person, the candidate. This has been
shaped in part by his father. a Norwegian immigrant. who came to America to seek a
better life for the family he would one day have. "My mother comes from a family of
wheat farmers and my father was an immigrant. That is a combination that brings to
a child the value of hard work and fairness to all," Jon often says. "I care about
Minnesotans. I share their dreams, their hopes and their fears. I want to be Governor
because I believe I can make a difference, that I can bring the experiences of my life
to the process and make it better for all of us."
September 16, 1990
Memo to: Candace Peterson
From:
Vicki Grunseth
Please send the biography of Jon to the White House. Also, here is
some additional information that may be helpful.
Jon and his family have many ties to the President. In 1980 and
again in 1984, Jon's mother, Louise Brunsdale, was Volunteer
Director at the Reagan/Bush HQ in Washington. In between she
worked for Jeane Kirkpatrick in the U.N. Jon's aunt, Anne Brunsdale,
is the Chair of the International Trade Commission (she is actually
acting Chair having served out her term as Chair). She was
appointed to the Commission by President Reagan and appointed
Chair by President Bush (I think). In 1984, Jon was National
Chairman of Norwegians for Reagan/Bush. Jon and I served on the
Minnesota Steering Committee for Bush/Quayle in 1988.
When President Bush was last in Minnesota, Jon introduced him at
the lunch at the Carleton. I think it was 1985. He told a funny story
about researching why Mondale carried Minnesota in 1984. He told
them he hired a pollster and after hours or pouring over the data, he
discovered the truth--It was the Swedes. That of course is only
funny if you think Scandinavian jokes are funny.
One of the phrases Jon has used ad nauseum in this campaign is in
his introduction of Sharon Clark. Whenever he introduces Sharon and
talks about her background, he always says, "Isn't it about time we
had a hog farmer on the ticket?"
I have called Evie Axdahl for her latest collection of Norwegian
jokes.
Jon Grunseth Profile/Bio
JON GRUNSETH
Box 55, Afton, Mn. 55001
641-0287
Jon Grunseth is the endorsed Republican candidate for Governor. He
is also the Republican Primary winner by an overwhelming margin.
Married to Vicki Grunseth, he has four daughters Nina, Lucia,
Katharine and Maryann.
A graduate of Luther College, Jon studied as a Bush Fellow at
Georgetown University, and is a graduate of the University of
Minnesota School of Management Executive Program. He also served
in the U.S. Army from 1968 - 1970.
Born in Minnesota on November 11, 1945, He graduated from high
school at West High School in Minneapolis in 1963.
Jon has an extensive history on behalf of the Republican Party and
its candidates, including serving as Chief of Staff to Congressman
Larry Pressler.
In 1978 he joined Ecolab, a St. Paul based Fortune 500 company, as
its youngest officer in history. During these 12 years, he has
continued to serve as an officer of Ecolab as part of a management
team that has taken the company from $400 million in sales to over
$1.3 billion today.
His many civic activities accomplishments include being of
member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Chamber of
Commerce, the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, KTCA Television,
Minnesota Public Radio, Co-Chair of the Governor's Commission on
Pipeline Safety , an appointment by President Reagan to the National
Pipeline Safety Commission and the Indianhead Council of Boy
Scouts of America.
1990
SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS
Election
IR GOVERNOR, BY COUNTY
One V(
4,000 of 4,000 precincia
Party endorsement system --
County
Carlsn
Gmain
Koll.
Grunseth got it and won with it;
Marshall
150
160
U/
Ramse
Aitkin
609
751
352
anti-abortion forces who threw
Martin
565
1,507
312
ng days
Anoka
3,100
7,301
2,001
Meoker
590
1,294
4:4
their weight behind Grunseth: and
Dockor
665
1,104
410
Milk: Lnco
433
noo
227
2nd District Congressman Vin
Holtrami
920
1,180
304
DON AHERN STAFF
though
Monison
3011
1.6.9
253
Weber, a force in conservative Rc-
Honson
016
1,295
244
Mower
GSM
071
2/8
assional
Big Stone
161
353
64
L of IR
publican polities who backed Grun-
Murray
163
ALLS
64
Blun Enrth
1,304
2,035
404
ne fourth of th
Nicoligt
005
1,207
503
C round
seth heavily and would have looked
Brown
440
1,347
207
Nobles
227
645
15
ly voters who WC
like a chump if he lost. Now he
Carllon
440
739
30/
Norman
130
202
117
Tuesday tailed to
Carver
901
looks like a champ.
2,010
514
Ulmsted
pich is
4,453
5,200
2,604
Case
MS
1,317
400
test for district judi
The losers include the polls that
Otter Tail
1,259
2,757
G49
c. cont-
Chippewa
402
950
203
Pennington
170
422
showed Carlson winning big: the
102
A listing of six
14
and
Chicago
774
1,250
497
Pine
JJJ
765
217
abortion-rights groups that made a
Clay
001
1,532
GOT
one judicial vacan
Pipentone
101
410
42
Int of noise about supporting Carl-
Clearwater
220
462
1:17
on the back of the
Polk
393
020
276
cam-
Cook
use
101
101
race on that side.
son, but delivered little. and the so-
Pope
563
707
109
C Per-
Collonwood
205
578
77
Hamney
13,156
14,615
5,337
11 hap-
called "lake crowd" of old-line par-
Crow Wing
1,650
2,500
(KS9
Although language
Tipo Lake
50
177
ty moderates who raised much of
Onkoin
6,464
9,679
3,823
77
6"
...
ry and
Dodge
at has
Carlson S money.
110
000
315
401
4375
255
of the ballot alerted
Douglas
1,122
2,030
634
Renville
Grunseth points to a record IR
550
908
317
both front and back.
Fortanut
turnout in the primary contrasted
013
1,100
202
Rice
1,464
2,100
espich
686
Fillinore
Hock
people apparently m
561
179
with a low DFL turnout as evi-
600
40/
361
30
politi-
Freebom
216
and
101
Hoseau
197
405
as
some voters may h.
"The
dence that voters are tired of Per-
Goodhua
2.004
1,460
479
St. Lown
2,771
3,255
2,220
skipped that race, oth
pich. He notes that he carried cv-
Grant
upies
KM
352
51
Scott
IHLS
2012
699
failed to turn their ba
Honnepin
29,687
36,539
15,422
Shorbame
75G
cry county in Minnesota except
1,062
mody
473
Houston
545
Sibley
inadvertently missed
731
Goodliuc and sees that as evidence
SKW3
310
043
1611
Hubbard
561
065
270
Steams
2,030
7,151
1,469
Paul voters said they
agic
of broad support
Inanti
6GO
1.331
404
Stecia
1,462
1,701
460
the election was over
this
But there is no doubt he starts
Bosca
931
1,425
714
Slevens
226
1101
1:30
not voted (or judge.
Jackson
320
GST
105
Swill
177
mor
off running behind Perpich. Any
600
07
Kannber,
357
723
Todd
312
It may have been
Republican in Minnesota must car-
200
1,410
226
Kandiyohi
060
2,142
377
Traverso
100
222
50
placement. said coun
ked
ry almost all IR votes plus most
Kittson
78
254
56
Wabasha
GOT
8837
420
director Joan Pelzer, 1
independents and a few DFLers.
Knochiching
140
306
Wadena
06
396
022
-wn.
1112
requires it.
LacPurio
The IR part of the equation was
173
007
(X)
Waseca
710
1,036
323
nc-
Lake
26/
321
240
Washington
3,000
1,437
1,735
"We didn't have a
We
on Grunseth's mind Wednesday as
L. of Woods
51
121
Watonwan
35
300
560
1(X)
where Lo put it," she sai
be toured areas of the state any IR
Le Spour
473
970
Wilkin
204
110
329
90
Winong
says the first column on
must carry to win in November.
Lincoln
113
200
31
655
1,48V5
302
Lynn
4/15
1,000)
1941
Wright
1,057
Today. he will be on the telephone
CODE
930
for Independent-Republ
ay
McLood
15M
1,95
600
Y, Modicine
209
6/2
156
dates, the third column
"6
raising money to start filling an
Mahaumen
in
TBS
HIS
Total
100,092
DFL, and the instruction
57,000
T-
empty treasury and planning more
in the middle column. 71
rs
jabs at Perpich.
can't put non-partis:
20
of the partisan colur
It
335,400
11
a
50%
328
178
5
JUNI
rpich requested and held a private
Standing before cheering supporters
with advisers, covering advertising
the people of Minnesota. not just the
various groups. Wellstone and I nev-
eeting yesterday with officials of
in a ballroom at the Holiday Inn
strategy, themes and fund-raising.
people on the upper end."
: Minnesota Education Association
er let an difference, say on the issue
Metrodome in Minneapolis early
Aides said he'll make many public
IEA), the 46,000-member teachers
of abortion. divide us. I took him up
yesterday morning, Perpich sounded
appearances.
Perpich waited until 12:25 a.m. yes-
ion, in an attempt to win its en-
in my home country and worked
his message:
terday, after Hatch conceded. 10 ad-
very. very hard for him. He did the
resement. The MEA supported
One theme was raised immediately
dress his supporters. Holding high
same things for me in some western
rlson in the primaries.
"It was a double victory: one, the
yesterday by John Stanoch. Perpich's
the hands of Paul Wellstone, the
suburbs."
fact that the endorsed ticket made it,
campaign manager.
DFL U.S. Senate nominee. and Mar-
$ "a good possibility" that the
and second, now that Arne Carlson is
lene Johnson, his running mate, he
EA will endorse Perpich, but it will
On the Iron Range. Perpich's sup-
not in the race, we have the center
"Jon Grunseth is playing out in right
declared victory and praised the
e the vote of the MEA's 300-
porters were celebrating, 100.
back, unified with the DFL."
field, and we're going io get the rest,"
work of his family, Stanoch. Todd
ember endorsing convention,
said Stanoch. "We are taking steps
Otis, the DFL chair, and Lynn An-
"From Day One, it's been our desire
ich will meet in the next couple of
A contest with Carison would have
today to shore up every
major
derson, his chief of staff.
that Jon Grunseth win the primary,"
eks, said Robert Astrup, MEA
been a "barn burner," the governor
constituency.
To those who may
said state Sen. Doug Johnson, DFL-
sident. The MEA also will meet
said. "I don't think he (Grunseth)
have supported Mike Hatch, we
Later, as the crowd began to thin,
Cook. a Perpich supporter. State
h Grunseth, he said. The state's
comes as close to what Minnesota is
need your help to defeat the right-
Perpich talked about the triumph.
Rep. Joe Begich, DFL-Eveleth, called
er major teachers union, the Min-
all about as does Arne Carlson."
handed-pitching, righthanded-hit-
"We were down SO far a year ago, he
Grunseit "another Ludeman," a ref-
tota Federation of Teachers, has
ting, right fielder, Jon Grunseth."
said. "It looked almost impossible.
erence to Call Ludeman, the IR can-
lorsed Perpich.
Perpich rested at the governor's resi-
But it all came together
didate whom Perpich defeated handi-
dence in St. Paul yesterday and was
The issues, said Stanoch, will "come
ly in the 986 general election.
pich also said he planned to draw
expected to make a series of public
naturally," but he offered one: "With
"I think we had good ads. Rudy
ups of the elderly, environmental-
appearances today. Campaign staff
Rudy Perpich, you have experienced,
(Perpich's son) was able !0 put those
"We'll brand him immediately as an-
; and police officers, some of
members and union leaders, who
trusted leadership; not the inexperi-
ads together for us, and Lola (the
tienvironment and antiworker." Be-
om had backed Carlson, into his
were pivotal to his victory, will meet
enced hand of a corporate chemical
governor's wife) got the spirit of the
gich said_ "We're going to tie him in
1.
today to map strategy. Perpich also
executive. Rudy Perpich is in touch
ads and was able 10 project it. There
with ment shops. He's opposed to
was to discuss options for the fall
with the people of Minnesota, all of
was a great coalition put together of
minimum wages."
Governor
U.S. Senate
denotes incumbent.
denotes incumbent.
093 of 4,093 precincts
4,093 of 4,093 precincts
ady Perpicht/DFL
218078
James W. (Jim) Nichols/DFL
129285
like Hatch/DFL
165771
Gene Schenk/DFL
19358
ent Herschbach/DFL
8862
Paut David Wellstone/DFL
226018
ne H. Carison/IR
108392
Rudy Boschwitzt
293119
amuel A. Faulk/IR
2813
John J. Zeleniak/IR
44108
on Grunseth/IR
169174
ouglas A. Kelley/IR
57834
eatrice Mooney/IR
1607
lary Jane Rachner/IR
2965
irunseth
Continued from page 1B
inseth credited his win to a mas-
"This has been the 'comeback ex-
phone-calling effort that pro-
press' twice and we aren't going to let
ed a record turnout for an Inde-
up now," Grunseth told supporters
dent-Republican primary. That
in Mankato.
red him win in areas of the state
which he hadn't expected to do so
His most immediate challenge, how-
1. he said.
ever, is raising an estimated $1.5 mil-
lion needed to finance the rest of his
inseth, painted as a conservative
campaign. Grunseth said he has
Minnesota - Junior Senator
Key Votes
Rudy Boschwitz (R)
II over Reagan veto
ed anti-ballistic missiles
Y
Of Plymouth - Elected 1978
arger nuclear weapons
N
Supreme Court justice
Y
Y
Born: Nov. 7, 1930, Berlin, Germany.
Education: Johns Hopkins U., B.S. 1950; New York U.,
nance overhaul
LL.B. 1953.
1 bill over Reagan veto
N
ver Reagan veto
Y
Military Career: Army, 1954-55.
drug-related murders
Y
N
Occupation: Lawyer; plywood company owner.
Iment to welfare overhaul bill
?
Family: Wife, Ellen Lowenstein; four children.
Religion: Jewish.
ig Studies
Political Career: Republican national committeeman
I
Party
from Minnesota, 1971-79.
Conservative
Unity
Coalition
Capitol Office: 506 Hart Bldg. 20510; 224-5641.
S
0
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0
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48
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59
In Washington: The 100th Congress fell
On some of his other priorities, Boschwitz'
54
43
47
50
far short of expectations for Boschwitz, the
success has been even less conspicuous. On
65
32
66
34
59
New York lawyer-turned Minnesota plywood
Small Business, he pushed the earned-income
34
62
25
68
25
70
21
merchant-turned politician.
tax credit as an alternative to the minimum
60
28
57
36
The most significant setback may have
wage increase. In the 101st Congress, he became
45
41
39
48
been the Republicans' failure to pick up Senate
the ranking GOP member on Small Business,
68
25
59
33
seats in the midst of the Electoral College
but the tax credit trade-off gathered few sup-
landslide for George Bush. Boschwitz had taken
porters, as most attention went toward raising
Group Ratings
over his party's Senate campaign committee in
the minimum rate and instituting some kind of
1987. It was his first taste of a leadership role,
ACU
subminimum "training wage."
AFL-CIO
CCUS
and a chance to concentrate his energies on the
On Foreign Relations, Boschwitz served as
26
77
43
political environment in which he has always
a special delegate to the United Nations' 1988
28
90
56
43
40
58
been most comfortable. Initially, he had been
General Assembly and continued his growing
48
47
54
upbeat about gaining seats; he even spoke of
interest in the plight of refugees in Southeast
55
25
65
recapturing control.
Asia. But on the overseas issue most personally
38
19
61
But in the end, the GOP suffered a net loss
25
59
28
important to Boschwitz - Israel's security -
47
26
72
of one seat, severely diminishing the party's
he saw an erosion of popular U.S. support for
chances of regaining majority status anytime
Israel in the face of the Palestinian uprising.
soon. Few seemed to hold Boschwitz responsi-
Boschwitz, who came to America as a boy from
ble. Committee receipts were down 22 percent
Nazi Germany, is a staunch Israel ally.
from the previous cycle, but they still beggared
He used his previous position as chairman
the Democrats' collections by 4-to-1. And
of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near
Boschwitz himself had traveled tirelessly in
Eastern Affairs to push for increased aid to
pursuit of resources and prospective candi-
Israel and to attack U.S. support for its Arab
dates. Indeed, the party got just the candidates
adversaries. Joining with other strong Israel
it wanted in several key states, and yet lost.
backers on the committee, such as California
At the same time, the failure to gain
Democrat Alan Cranston, Boschwitz has argued
ground in a winning presidential year was
for more military aid to the Jewish state and
hardly a cause for celebration. Like others be-
against U.S. arms sales to the Arab states.
fore him, Boschwitz found it difficult to acti-
Boschwitz has also spent more than 10
vate the party's national assets in state elec-
years on the Budget Committee playing a mod-
tions. And after it was over, he found no new
est role in the panel's deliberations and pushing
position waiting for him in the party's Senate
ideas such as a spending freeze. Boschwitz was
leadership. The rest of the hierarchy stood pat,
most prominent on budget issues in the 99th
so after a single cycle in the leadership he was
Congress when he proposed giving priority to
out, at least temporarily.
the deficit over tax revision. Early in 1986 he
In his committee work, Boschwitz contin-
wrote a letter to President Reagan. cosigned by
ued to emphasize the Agriculture Committee.
where in the 100th Congress he became ranking
50 senators, calling for a delay in action on
minority member on the Credit Subcommittee
taxes until after an agreement had been
and co-authored the 1987 Farm Credit bill with
reached on ways to meet the deficit-reduction
Democratic Sen. David L. Boren of Oklahoma.
requirements of the Gramm-Rudman law. But
But now that Democrats are in control of both
Gramm-Rudman was largely invalidated by a
houses, the credit for the bill was unevenly
federal court, and tax revision became law.
distributed. Boschwitz also active on
In the 100th Congress, Boschwitz was one
drought-relief measures in was 1988.
more middle-level Budgeteer watching the com-
mittee's significance slip away. The new focus
785
Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn.
was on package deals made at budget summit
in Reagan's fiscal 1988 budget.
meetings between the White House and Hill
in the 101st Congress, the House and Senate
figure in Minnesota politics during an era
At Home: Boschwitz became a statewide
time to run for offic 01
leadership. With the same pattern developing
election tune year gubernatorial
Republican ascendancy and proceeded to of
Senate or
committees' role seemed to be dwindling.
Boschwitz' affable personality has earned
last the eΓa. Without ever abandoning the conj out.
servatism that brought him into politics, he has
Boschwitz had a dedica f
1978 he always passed u)
him the affection of many colleagues, and he
effectively emphasized his personal campaign-
allies and a well-known
has long had aspirations to climb the ladder of
Senate power. But his eccentric style - sym-
ing skills - an orientation he often recom-
about inflation rather th
bolized by the "happy face" he sometimes adds
mended to others seeking Senate seats in their
Boschwitz picked t]
own states.
right opponent - Sen.
to his signature on letters - has not struck
Boschwitz is a born campaigner. Each
who as governor had arr
everyone as the best credential for a legislative
summer he makes the rounds of Minnesota
named to the Senate in la
leader. Late in 1984, he ran for GOP Conference
county fairs, greeting voters and handing out
resigned to become Jimi
secretary, but lost by a wide margin to Thad
samples of flavored milk with an infectious
dent. Anderson felt he
Cochran of Mississippi.
Senate Republicans may also value Bosch-
enthusiasm. No nuance of campaign technique,
enough in the job to 0
however tiny, escapes his interest. He once
follows most "self-app
witz' taste for partisan combat as they struggle
distributed a handbook of campaign advice to
Washington. But he cou
to readjust to minority status. Late in 1986,
In the campaign, Bc
his colleagues that urged, among other things,
facing a drive to impose limits on contributions
that candidates walking in parades stop every
dard GOP campaign the
from political action committees (PACs), GOP
hundred yards or so to wipe the sweat from
was controversial. It was
leaders turned to Boschwitz to devise a tactical
their brows, whether their brows are wet or not
alities rather than issues,
response. He came up with an amendment to
His zest for campaigning extends to raising
tage over the more resel
The scenario was
curb PAC contributions to national parties as
money. He has developed a variety of innova-
well as to candidates - a heavy blow at the
1984, when Boschwitz W.
tive fund-raising techniques, such as the
financial health of the Democratic Party, which
ocrat Joan Growe, the S
stickers he gives to contributors to ensure that
relies on PAC contributions. The amendment
times shrill secretary
their mailed requests for constituent service
Growe was not a widel
allowed Republicans to vote for this reform
receive priority attention from his staff. With
within her own party; sh
without any danger it would pass.
his close ties to a large number of wealthy
When Boschwitz focuses his legislative en-
supporters of Israel, Boschwitz has access to a
ergy on one subject - such as the federal dairy
pool of campaign contributions that tradition-
Comm
program so important to Minnèsota farmers -
ally has gone to Democrats. "I like that part of
he can play an important role. Even then,
the business," he says.
Small Business (Ranking)
however, his eccentric inclinations often come
Many Minnesota Democrats thought they
Agriculture, Nutrition and Forest
out. Arguing that "the real problem with milk
would overcome Boschwitz' campaign strengths
Nutrition and Investigations (rank
N/N Production and Stabilization
is underconsumption, not overproduction,"
in 1990 by bringing a political heavyweight out
Boschwitz has made a tradition of the banana,
of retirement. But in early 1989 it became clear
Budget (3rd of 10 Republicans)
root beer and Amaretto flavored milk drinks he
that they had failed in their effort to woo
Foreign Relations (4th of 9 Repub
Near Eastern and South Asian A
hands out on Capitol Hill and in Minnesota.
Walter F. Mondale, former senator, former vice
International Economic Policy, Tra
When most farm programs came up for
president, and 1984 Democratic nominee for,
renewal in 1985, Boschwitz set himself a more
president. Democrats are not without other
Elec
ambitious agenda. He seemed to want to estab-
potential challengers, but Mondale would have
lish himself as the leading GOP spokesman on
been the most formidable.
1964 General
farm issues, but was overshadowed by Cochran
Boschwitz may breathe a little easier now,
Rudy Boschwitz (R)
Joan Growe (D)
and Majority Leader Bob Dole. More important
but he has never been one to shy from challenges
in the long run, however, he did develop ideas
anyway. In fact, he has been on the move much
1984 Primary
Rudy Boschwitz (R)
for a fundamental change in farm programs.
of his life. Born in Berlin, he fled Nazi Germany
Joan Barcelona (R)
Boschwitz proposed that the government
with his parents when he was 2, moving first to
Cartan Lesch (R)
move toward phasing out the current "target
Czechoslovakia, then to Switzerland, the Neth-
Previous Winning Percentage:
price" system of farm income supports, which
erlands, England and the United States. He
he said encouraged farmers to plant crops re-
attended college at Baltimore's prestigious
gardless of market conditions. To help farmers
Johns Hopkins University, graduating when he
Campaig
survive the transition to a free-market environ-
was just 19. He went to law school in New York
ment, he suggested that the government give
and practiced law there. But he tired of that,
Receipts
farmers gradually decreasing cash payments
moved to Minnesota and made $5 million with
Boschwitz (R)
his Plywood Minnesota business, which grew to
$5,983,410
regardless of how much they planted.
Growe (0)
$1,611,348
Boschwitz' ideas generated considerable
67 outlets throughout the upper Midwest.
interest, gaining 42 votes when offered as a floor
When a folksy, flannel-shirted Boschwitz
amendment to the farm bill. But he pushed
began appearing in television ads for his ply-
them in a way that evoked irritation from some
wood business two decades ago, some Minne-
of his colleagues, continuing to advocate his
sota politicians suspected he might be thinking
proposals well past the point when it became
of selling more than do-it-yourself home fur
clear they would not be adopted that year.
nishings. They were right.
Still, the concept may influence farm mea-
Elected a Republican national committee
sures later on; a modified version was included
man in 1971, he waited patiently for the oppor-
786
Minnesota - Junior Senator
88 budget.
:hwitz became a statewide
tune time to run for office. At the start of each
included Anderson and Rep. James L. Oberstar
politics during an era of
election year he was on everyone's list as a
to win the Democratic endorsement on the 19th
cy and proceeded to out-
Senate or gubernatorial contender, but until
ballot at the state convention.
1978 he always passed up the chance. By then,
Growe sought to solidify Democratic sup-
ever abandoning the conj
nt him into politics, he has
Boschwitz had a dedicated corps of political
port by peppering Boschwitz on a wide array of
ed his personal campaign-
allies and a well-known face. He started talking
issues, ranging from his strong support of Rea-
entation he often recom-
about inflation rather than plywood.
gan defense policies to his personal finances.
Boschwitz picked the right year, and the
When he refused to release his income-tax
king Senate seats in their
right opponent - Sen. Wendell R. Anderson,
returns, Growe charged that he had benefited
who as governor had arranged to have himself
from some of the Reagan tax cuts he supported.
born campaigner. Each
he rounds of Minnesota
named to the Senate in late 1976 when Mondale
But Growe was unable to pierce Boschwitz'
voters and handing out
resigned to become Jimmy Carter's vice presi-
image as an affable problem-solver and cham-
pion of lower taxes. He deflected criticism of his
milk with an infectious
dent. Anderson felt he could perform well
ce of campaign technique,
enough in the job to overcome the jinx that
own tax history by using his accountant to
S his interest. He once
follows most "self-appointed" senators to
disclose highlights of his tax returns. And his
Washington. But he could not overcome it.
"Fair Play" budget, while failing to draw much
ok of campaign advice to
In the campaign, Boschwitz endorsed stan-
support in Washington, helped him establish
ged, among other things,
dard GOP campaign themes, but said little that
himself at home as an independent thinker
ng in parades stop every
was controversial. It was a campaign of person-
willing to challenge a Republican administra-
to wipe the sweat from
alities rather than issues, and he had the advan-
tion.
heir brows are wet or not
tage over the more reserved Anderson.
Growe lacked the finances to press her
aigning extends to raising
The scenario was not much different in
case, and presidential nominee Mondale, who
ped a variety of innova-
1984, when Boschwitz was paired against Dem-
was originally expected to provide top-of-the-
:hniques, such as the
ocrat Joan Growe, the state's feisty but some-
ticket strength, barely won his home state.
itributors to ensure that
times shrill secretary of state. The liberal
Taking all but a handful of counties, most on
for constituent service
Growe was not a widely popular choice even
the economically devastated Iron Range,
ion from his staff. With
within her own party; she outlasted a field that
Boschwitz scored another one-sided victory.
rge number of wealthy
oschwitz has access to a
ributions that tradition-
Committees
Key Votes
rats. "I like that part of
Small Business (Ranking)
1987
Democrats thought they
Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (5th of 9 Republicans)
Enact omnibus highway bill over Reagan veto
N
Nutrition and Investigations (ranking): Agricultural Credit: Agricul-
Limit testing of space-based anti-ballistic missiles
N
vitz' campaign strengths
Oppose banning tests of larger nuclear weapons
Y
tural Production and Stabilization of Prices
olitical heavyweight out
Confirm Robert H. Bork as Supreme Court justice
Y
Budget (3rd of 10 Republicans)
rly 1989 it became clear
1988
in their effort to WOO
Foreign Relations (4th of 9 Republicans)
Allow vote on campaign-finance overhaul
N
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (ranking): European Affairs;
ner senator, former vice
Pass civil rights restoration bill over Reagan veto
Y
International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment
Enact omnibus trade bill over Reagan veto
N
emocratic nominee for
Approve death penalty for drug-related murders
Y
are not without other
Elections
Oppose "workfare" amendment to welfare overhaul bill
N
it Mondale would have
1984 General
ble.
athe a little easier now,
Rudy Boschwitz (R)
Voting Studies
1,199.926
(58%)
Joan Growe (D)
852,844
(41%)
Presidential
Party
Conservative
e to shy from challenges
1984 Primary
Support
Unity
Coalition
been on the move much
Rudy Boschwitz (R)
Year
S
0
S
0
S
o
1, he fled Nazi Germany
162,555
(97%)
Joan Barcelona (R)
3,277
(2%)
1988
73
23
68
24
76
14
e was 2, moving first to
Carlan Lesch (R)
2,462
(1%)
1987
71
26
81
18
81
16
Switzerland, the Neth-
Previous Winning Percentage:
1986
84
16
84
16
84
16
1978
(57%)
he United States. He
1985
87
13
87
13
92
8
1984
69
31
73
26
66
34
altimore's prestigious
Campaign Finance
1983
80
15
62
32
66
30
y, graduating when he
1982
77
22
71
28
54
43
aw school in New York
1981
82
18
78
21
71
29
Receipts
Expend-
But he tired of that,
Receipts
from PACs
itures
t Not eligible for all recorded votes.
made $5 million with
Boschwitz (R)
usiness, which grew to
Growe (D)
$5,983,410
$1,005,187 (17%)
$6,022.365
$1,611,348
$434,148 (27%)
$1,589,738
Interest Group Ratings
e upper Midwest.
Year
ADA
ACU
AFL-CIO
CCUS
nel-shirted Boschwitz
ision ads for his ply-
1988
20
70
38
69
1987
25
76
40
94
les ago, some Minne-
1986
15
57
13
74
he might be thinking
1985
5
78
5
79
it-yourself home fur-
1984
35
45
27
68
1983
40
36
24
61
1982
30
60
23
60
1 national committee-
1981
25
50
5
89
tiently for the oppor-
787
Minnesota - 2nd District
alling himself a moderate in
on. d As the race tightened,
a barrage of charges, in-
2
Vin Weber (R)
at Penny had never worked
or for a living. Penny
that showed him with his re-
Of North Mankato - Elected 1980
ontrast with the divorced
revailed with 51 percent of
Born: July 24, 1952, Slayton, Minn.
Education: Attended U. of Minnesota, 1970-74.
iblicans nominated Keith
Occupation: Publisher.
sales manager with close
Family: Wife, Cheryl Foster.
[innesota's fundamentalist
/. Spicer was articulate, but
Religion: Roman Catholic.
upaigner, and he had little
Political Career: Republican nominee for Minn. Sen-
:'s large contingent of mod-
ate, 1976.
hom Penny had cultivated.
Capitol Office: 106 Cannon Bldg. 20515; 225-2331.
35,000 votes.
ept the 1st District, Penny
In Washington: Weber has been one of
ped Erdahl would run in
the more creative and independent members of
in the early 1980s, when they formed the Con-
ut in late 1985, choosing a
the large class of House Republicans swept into
servative Opportunity Society (COS), a group
onal office of the Peace
office with Ronald Reagan in 1980. So it was no
of activist young House Republicans that made
988. fielded a weak challenger
great surprise in early 1989 when he emerged as
its name by harassing the Democratic leader-
key figure in the intraparty maneuvering over
ship.
the direction House Republicans should take in
When Gingrich decided to run for whip,
the post-Reagan era.
Weber was his vote-counter. The Georgian's
Weber brought an unusual - and some-
triumph over a more traditional Republican,
Votes
times contradictory - perspective to the pro-
Edward Madigan of Illinois, signaled the
ceedings. Once a leader of a group of young
growing impatience of younger Republicans
House conservatives who were ready to make
N
with the conciliatory politics of their senior
e" amendment
N
every fight with the Democrats a death strug-
colleagues.
weapons
Y
gle, Weber clearly has been tempered by time.
The same forces had helped Weber win his
ti tankers
Y
eduction bill
"You can't make every battle a scorched-earth
own place in the lower ranks of the party
N
battle, because this institution is going to have
hierarchy just four months earlier. In a leader-
to confront other issues," he has said.
ship shake-up before the 101st Congress, Weber
ontras
N
bill over Reagan veto
At the beginning of the 101st Congress, he
Y
was elected secretary of the Republican Confer-
ication measure
N
had the trappings of insider status - a place in
ence by a 21-vote margin over old-breed Repub-
Reagan veto
Y
the Republican leadership and a seat on the
lican Joseph M. McDade of Pennsylvania, a
g-related murders
N
powerful Appropriations Committee.
senior member of the Appropriations Commit-
S in cases of rape and incest
Y
riod for purchase of handguns Y
But while eight years in the House have
tee.
changed Weber, he has not lost sight of how he
Weber had already begun to make his way
wants to change the institution and his party.
from the periphery of the Republican Confer-
Studies
Even as President Bush was making concilia-
ence to its inner sanctums of power two years
Party
Conservative
tory gestures toward the Democratic-controlled
earlier, when he won a seat on the Appropria-
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"His agenda needs to be fleshed out a bit,"
Weber said of Bush. "You can lead the White
other young members complain that senior
House." For Weber, that fleshing out involves
GOP appropriators are often more loyal to the
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committee's products than to party principles.
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But Weber is not above crowing about his
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101st Congress, Weber helped promote an old
ability to get federal funds for his district, now
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ally with the same objective in mind: Georgia's
that he is so close to the trough. He happily
Newt Gingrich.
takes credit for securing funding for agriculture
Weber was a key strategist behind Ging-
research projects in Minnesota. graduate fel-
rich's the March 1989 election as Republican whip,
lowships and other programs overseen by his
two Appropriations subcommittees. one on Ag-
rich Post second only to minority leader. Ging-
riculture and the other on Labor. Health and
and Weber had been most famously allied
Human Services and Education.
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Vin Weber, R-Minn.
Southwest
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reaching out more
Minnesota 2
Willmar
a
The landscape of the 2nd District is
power.
role.
dotted for mile upon mile with silos and
At the turn of the century the Scandi-
some COS leac
grain elevators, broken up occasionally by
navian settlers in this area battled con-
small crossroads market centers. The dis-
stantly with railroads, bankers and grain
trict's largest town, Willmar, has only about
merchants. Disillusioned by Republicans
nor focus on Com
while itte assignment
to on the Budget
16,000 residents. Bisected by the broad
and Democrats alike, they were ripe for
neat and then won his A] fc
Minnesota River, the sprawling 30-county
third-party alternatives. The Farmer-Labor
district includes some of the best farm land
Party found early support in this region, as
term. ment at the start of his
At Home: When it cc
in the state, and some that is not so produc-
did presidential candidate Robert LaFol-
Weber is a House version
tive.
lette in 1924, when his Progressive Party
The well-to-do farmers in the south
carried the vast majority of the counties
that is not surprising becau
U.S. senator, Rudy Bosch
along the Iowa border enjoy bountiful har-
north of the Minnesota River that are
witz' successful 1978 effort
vests of corn and soybeans. Worthington,
wholly contained in the district.
his senior aide in Minneso
located in Nobles County, claims to be the
Today, with strong support from the
conservatively in Congress
"Turkey Capital of the World."
National Farmers Union, Democrats often
use the same high-p
Many voters in the southern two tiers
run well in this part of the district. But the
style
of counties are of German ethnic stock. Like
vote here is generally not large enough to
the H
those in the adjoining 1st District, they
overcome the more heavily Republican ar-
could have won re-electic
share a strong Republican tradition and an
eas to the south and east.
with something less than
allegiance to the Farm Bureau, the most
Running a campaign in the 2nd Dis-
budget campaigns that 1
conservative of the state's three major farm
trict is an exhausting and expensive exer-
1986, Weber needed to m
organizations.
cise. To reach voters via television, a candi-
aiderable political skills to
As one moves north along the Minne-
date has to buy time not only in the Twin
faced with a double challe
sota River, dairy farms become more com-
Cities but also in Mankato and Alexandria,
depressed agrarian econor
mon. The flat farm lands yield to a more
Minn., and in Sioux Falls, S.D. Some might
Democratic opponent, wh
rolling terrain broken up by lakes. Until one
prefer to run their campaigns by mail order,
Weber as a right-wing id
reaches the prairie counties north of the
in the tradition of one of the district's most
understand the depth of
Minnesota River, the political flavor re-
famous sons: R. W. Sears, who began ship-
While the rural 2nd
mains largely Republican.
ping watches from Redwood in 1886 with
clivities, in 1986 it was mi
Above the river, north of Renville and
the help of his partner, Alvah Roebuck.
in economic depression a
Yellow Medicine counties, the land is sandy
Farm Belt. Its grain farn
and rocky and the politics unpredictable.
decline in export markets
Farmers here have to work harder to
Population: 509,500. White 505,241 (99%). Black
values, were picketing CO
288 (0.1%), Other 2,630 (1%). Spanish origin 2,508
scratch out a living, and they display a
(1%). 18 and over 363,087 (71%), 65 and over 82,298
disrupting farm-foreclosu
frequent dissatisfaction with any party in
(16%). Median age: 32.
Weber sought to insu
agrarian discontent by dis
the unpopular Reagan adr
As a member of the House Budget Com-
icy - he voted against th
That pride in parochial accomplishments
mittee, Weber cast the sole Republican vote in
bills, each of which cut
is the legacy of an important stage in the
political education of Weber: a brush with elec-
1986 for a Democratic-drafted budget resolu-
farmers. Before the 1986
toral defeat that drove him to spend more time
tion. Among the factors that inclined him favor-
held regular office hours i
on the day-to-day problems of his troubled
ably to that budget was that then-Chairman
to farmers who came to hi
farm constituents and less on after-hours
William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania had earned
help. In the process, h
speeches with the COS crowd.
Weber's gratitude by holding a hearing on agri-
become "less anti-govern:
But Weber's change
He faced a tough re-election contest in
culture programs in his Minnesota district.
1986. when the farm economy at home was in a
"I've responded to an ongoing disaster in
pressive to Democratic C
tailspin and his opponent was saying Weber
my district," he said amid the 1986 farm crisis.
son, who complained that
was not doing enough to help.
"I've changed my behavior more than my basic
really concerned about S
philosophy. But then, it's a misconception that
would have taken a seat
He added office hours in his district, and
began soft-pedaling his role as partisan fire-
I ever believed in being rigidly ideological."
ture Committee, like M
brand in the House. He placed plenty of dis-
Indeed, when COS was at its peak as a
rural House members.
tance between himself and the Reagan adminis-
bomb-throwing force in the early 1980s, Weber
Johnson maintained
always seemed a little miscast as its chief co-
ally no influence on agr
tration's farm policies. In early 1985, he wrote
ordinator. In a group given to theatrics and
third-generation farmer,
Reagan a letter protesting his veto of a farm
credit bill. Later, in debate on the 1985 farm
grand ideas, he stood out as a hardheaded
personal understanding (
bill, Weber was one of a handful of House
pragmatist more concerned with sound strategy
he said Weber, whose bac
Republicans to defy the White House and sup-
than with ideological debating points.
per publishing, lacked.
port a "populist" proposal aimed at imposing
Even as Weber joined his COS colleagues
Republicans, in tui
strict production controls to drive up prices.
in guerrilla floor tactics, he distinguished him-
Johnson as a political opp
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self by reaching out more to other elements of
parties on the eve of his congressional bid
the House GOP. The strident approach often
because his hopes of winning office as a Repub-
thwest -
adopted by Gingrich and others alienated many
lican were stymied. Johnson was intensely in-
Willmar
senior Republicans, allowing Weber, who was
volved in local GOP politics in the early 1980s,
somewhat less vitriolic, to play a more promi-
frequently accompanying Weber around the
nent political role.
district and even serving as a delegate to the
ry the Scandi-
While some COS leaders remained in mi-
1984 Republican National Convention in Dal-
battled con-
nor committee assignments that left them free
las.
ers and grain
to focus on floor confrontation, Weber got a
Johnson defended his party switch, saying
Republicans
seat on the Budget Committee in his third
that he decided to join the Democrats because
were ripe for
term, and then won his Appropriations assign-
President Reagan's free-market farm policy was
Farmer-Labor
ment at the start of his fourth term.
driving prices down and undermining the dis-
this region, as
At Home: When it comes to campaigning,
trict's economy.
Robert LaFol-
Weber is a House version of Minnesota's junior
Making his political debut, Johnson was an
gressive Party
U.S. senator, Rudy Boschwitz - a similarity
unknown quantity to many voters in the large,
f the counties
that is not surprising because Weber ran Bosch-
31-county district. Despite that, he was able to
Liver that are
witz' successful 1978 effort and later worked as
win a majority of counties in the 2nd; he
rict.
his senior aide in Minnesota. Weber votes more
finished barely 6,000 votes short of Weber.
port from the
conservatively in Congress than Boschwitz, but
Johnson might have been able to overcome
emocrats often
they use the same high-profile, high-pressure,
the deficit if the incumbent had not run a S1
istrict. But the
everywhere-at-once style of running for office.
million, state-of-the-art campaign. Weber bom-
arge enough to
First elected to the House in 1980, Weber
barded voters with an array of appeals ranging
Republican ar-
could have won re-election in 1982 and 1984
from ads on expensive Twin Cities television to
with something less than the energetic, high-
direct-mail appeals to individual commodity
1 the 2nd Dis-
budget campaigns that he mounted. But in
groups.
expensive exer-
1986, Weber needed to marshal all of his con-
By 1988 it was apparent that Weber had
vision, a candi-
siderable political skills to hold office. He was
shored up his support in the district. He had
ly in the Twin
faced with a double challenge in the form of a
been more visible tending to district concerns,
nd Alexandria,
depressed agrarian economy and an aggressive
and had an achievement to tout in 1987 when
D. Some might
Democratic opponent, who pounded away at
he took a seat on the Appropriations Subcom-
S by mail order,
Weber as a right-wing ideologue who did not
mittee on Agriculture. Democrats had difficulty
district's most
understand the depth of the farm crisis.
coming up with a strong candidate, although
ho began ship-
While the rural 2nd has Republican pro-
Johnson considered another attempt, as did
d in 1886 with
clivities, in 1986 it was mired as discouragingly
Gene Wenstrom, who had previously mounted
ah Roebuck.
in economic depression as any district in the
three campaigns against Republican Rep. Arlan
Farm Belt. Its grain farmers, hard hit by the
Stangeland in the 7th District.
decline in export markets and plummeting land
The Democratic nomination went to Doug
15,241 (99%), Black
anish origin 2.508
values, were picketing county courthouses and
Peterson, a farmer and a party chairman in Lac
65 and over 82,298
disrupting farm-foreclosure sales.
Qui Parle County. Peterson said that he was a
Weber sought to insulate himself from the
better fit for the predominantly rural district
agrarian discontent by distancing himself from
than was Weber, but he had considerable diffi-
the unpopular Reagan administration farm pol-
culty raising funds to get his message out. With
louse Budget Com-
icy - he voted against the 1981 and 1985 farm
a late start and without much help from the
Republican vote in
bills, each of which cut income. support to
national party, Peterson managed just 42 per-
ited budget resolu-
farmers. Before the 1986 election, Weber also
cent of the vote. Weber won by the second-
inclined him favor-
held regular office hours in the district to listen
largest margin of his career.
hat then-Chairman
to farmers who came to him in search of federal
Lavishly financed campaigns have been a
sylvania had earned
help. In the process, he confessed, he had
Weber hallmark. When he won the seat of
g a hearing on agri-
become "less anti-government, maybe."
retiring Democratic Rep. Richard Nolan in
nnesota district.
But Weber's change of heart was unim-
1980, Weber put so much money into television
ongoing disaster in
pressive to Democratic challenger Dave John-
ads that to many voters he seemed like an
he 1986 farm crisis.
son, who complained that if the incumbent was
incumbent by November. He rolled to a 14,000-
more than my basic
really concerned about struggling farmers, he
vote victory over former Nolan aide and Farm-
misconception that
would have taken a seat on the House Agricul-
ers Union organizer Archie Baumann.
idly ideological."
ture Committee, like Minnesota's other two
Two years later, court-ordered redistrict-
as at its peak as a
rural House members.
ing placed Weber and GOP Rep. Tom Hage-
early 1980s, Weber
Johnson maintained that Weber had virtu-
dorn together in the same rural southwest Min-
cast as its chief co-
ally no influence on agricultural policy. As a
nesota constituency. Rather than challenge
en to theatrics and
third-generation farmer. Johnson claimed a
Weber, his fellow conservative and one-time
t as a hardheaded
personal understanding of farm problems that
press secretary, Hagedorn moved east into the
with sound strategy
he said Weber, whose background is in newspa-
district of GOP Rep. Arlen Erdahl. (That set off
ting points.
per publishing, lacked.
a messy game of political musical chairs that
his COS colleagues
Republicans, in turn, sought to depict
ended with both Hagedorn and Erdahl losing in
e distinguished him-
Johnson as a political opportunist who switched
separate districts in November.)
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'om Hagedorn. Party leaders
awn 1st, but lost the nomina-
noving to the new 6th, where
Arlan Stangeland (R)
; a carpetbagger and needed
1e GOP endorsement.
; state maps charting Er-
d on the carpetbagging
Of Barnesville - Elected 1977
h to the 6th. More impor-
Born: Feb. 8, 1930, Fargo, N.D.
nces of 1978 were reversed.
Education: Graduated from Moorhead High School,
t as good a year for Minne-
endly Democratic territory,
1948.
Occupation: Farmer.
with 51 percent.
978 had been for Republi-
Family: Wife, Virginia Trowbridge; seven children.
GOP nominated Patrick
Religion: Lutheran.
late, energetic campaigner
Political Career: Minn. House, 1967-75; Barnesville
from Minnesota's potent
school board, 1976-77.
nent. He had been a CO-
Capitol Office: 2245 Rayburn Bldg. 20515; 225-2165.
rm, Americans United for
In Washington: Stangeland is a profile in
plan in the Wheat Subcommittee, but a few
d Sikorski of being a part
resilience. In an era when the vast majority of
days later the panel reversed itself, giving the
increase team," but in a
House members are easily re-elected, he seems
secretary of agriculture the discretion to imple-
ly sympathetic to national
perpetually on the ropes in his marginal north-
ment or ignore the program and allowing farm-
e had modest impact. Si-
west Minnesota district. But he keeps coming
ers to continue defaulting on loans.
his message with a late
back, and in doing so has moved to the upper
Stangeland tried again in full committee.
what was thought to be a
ranks on two major committees, where he is in a
This time he was criticized by Thomas S. Foley,
victory.
position to make a mark for his often struggling
the Wheat Subcommittee chairman, as a cham-
district.
pion of "rural social welfare."
The Agriculture Committee is a natural
Stangeland challenged that contention.
place for Stangeland, and in recent years he has
"We have a choice," he argued, "of setting a
Votes
started to break out of his role there as a
new course for agriculture that gives some hope
backbencher. A chain-smoking and occasionally
to farmers. Is it not now the time to write some
gruff farmer, Stangeland is still not the best
innovative new approach that will work? Or
Y
amendment
Y
spokesman on agricultural issues, but his opin-
shall we procrastinate for four more years?"
eapons
Y
lons are given some weight. He is in a good
But the committee rejected the mandatory
tankers
Y
uction bill
position to voice them as ranking Republican
marketing loan program 20-22.
Y
on the Cotton, Rice and Sugar Subcommittee.
The effort did not stop there. Stangeland
The more activist Stangeland began to be
also lost two attempts to revive his plan on the
tras
N
I over Reagan veto
apparent during debate on the 1985 farm bill.
House floor. Instead, the final farm bill in-
Y
ation measure
N
Although he has spent much of his energy over
cluded a formula that allowed for the gradual
agan veto
Y
the years looking out for the sugar beet growers
lowering of price supports. Stangeland sup-
-related murders
N
of the Red River Valley, during the farm bill
ported the bill, which he called "the best we
in cases of rape and incest
Y
d for purchase of handguns Y
debate he was particularly active on provisions
could get."
affecting wheat.
Stangeland's reputation in Washington
Stangeland's increased visibility on the
was enhanced by his work on the farm bill, but
Studies
Wheat Subcommittee did not stem from any
he paid a political price at home, where he was
Party
Conservative
unusual skill at political maneuvering or from
his oratorical gifts. Those have never been his
the target of many farmers' discontent. Not
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strong suits. Instead, it was his early and firm
gested that the next farm bill be taken up in
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embrace of a new program of price supports,
1991, an off year, rather than in the 1990
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called "marketing loans," which many others
election year.
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considered too complicated to endorse.
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Although Stangeland did not have to grap-
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Marketing loans were designed to boost
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ple with a giant farm bill in the 100th Congress.
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commodity sales by allowing prices to fall, and,
default on the price-support loans. Unlike the
at the same time, to avoid having farmers
he was among those working to fend off a
proposal to change the sugar program, which
existing commodity program, which allows
some legislators have attacked for being expen-
ip Ratings
farmers to default. marketing loans would have
sive and keeping prices too high. Stangeland
to be repaid to the government, but only at the
and other supporters said that sugar in the
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price farmers' crops brought at market, which
United States is reasonably priced. and that
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could be significantly below the loan rate.
foreign dumping in the world marketplace
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While Stangeland's proposal won support
drives down world prices and gives the incorrect
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from many Democrats, it faced considerable
impression that U.S. sugar is overpriced.
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opposition from leaders of both parties on the
"No producer in the world could be ex-
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committee, too who argued that it was untested and
pected to successfully compete at prices well
expensive. Stangeland won approval for the
below the cost of production," Stangeland said.
As it turned out, proposals to change the sugar
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Arlan Stangeland, R-Minn.
swimmable 1972 is 1
Minnesota 7
Northwest - St. Cloud;
the know
is doe
Moorhead
Lakes, government of
and in kee
From the prairie wheat fields along the
drive to the northwest, there are few popu-
federal supporter
Red River to the hills, forests and lakes in
lation centers. But there is a significant
the middle of the state, this is Minnesota's
Catholic influence in the small towns
Protection Agency's dean Protection Agency's
most marginal district - economically as
around St. Cloud, where large Catholic
churches loom above the surrounding farm
stood out in cc
well as politically.
from his House
Farmers struggle each year to meet
land - giving the area some of the feel of
spart While most incumb unde
their high operating costs on land that does
rural France or Germany.
Stangeland time. is often tes
not match the quality of the soil farther
Outside the orbit of St. Cloud, the
always been up to the
south. Those living in the chilly central
towns are vintage Americana. Sauk Centre
1986 by a scant 121 votes
section try to eke out a living any way they
- about 40 miles northwest of St. Cloud -
can. A few dollars can usually be made from
was the birthplace of novelist Sinclair
month that after the voting -
his victory was not se S
the sportsmen who hunt and fish in the
Lewis, who used his hometown as the model
in 1988 to a more comfort
region, and there is some money in the
for his famous work "Main Street." Street
That 10-point victor
region's lumber business, which once was an
signs along the prime thoroughfare in Sauk
landslide for Stangeland, V
economic mainstay but now is in decline.
Centre, in fact, describe it as the "Original
percent only once in his ]
The snowmobile industry, a more recent
Main Street."
tion efforts.
economic boon to the area, was hurt by the
The wheat-growing central sections of
In winning six full te
early 1980s recession and several dry win-
the district are slightly more populous than
had to struggle against a
ters, and it has been slow to recover.
the rest, and also more Republican. Sugar
Part of Stangeland's pro
Politically, the district has been in the
beets are grown around Moorhead in the Red
politically marginal nature
marginal category ever since popular Demo-
River Valley, which possesses some of the most
ocrat Bob Bergland held i
crat Bob Bergland left in 1977 to become
fertile farm land in the district. In the rolling
leaving to become Presic
Jimmy Carter's agriculture secretary.
countryside just to the east are hundreds of
agriculture secretary in 19
St. Cloud, the seat of Stearns County
lakes - ranging from small ponds to bodies of
has been Stangeland's
with 43,000 residents, is the district's larg-
water several miles wide. The area draws
persona. Disturbed by his
est city. For years a major center for granite
hunters, fishermen and summer tourists.
tories, he paid for a pers
quarrying, St. Cloud attracted a diverse
Farther north, near the Canadian bor-
the 1982 election.
ethnic population that German Catholics
der, the land supports fewer people, and the
But possibly Stange
dominated. Today the descendants of the
vote is usually Democratic. The Red Lake
ache has been a perceptio
old stonecutters share their ancestors' sup-
and White Earth Indian reservations are in
are in the rural 7th that h
port of the Democratic Party on economic
the northern part of the 7th.
is the sugar beet growers a
issues, but they often stray to the GOP
in the fertile Red Rive
when social issues, especially abortion, be-
Identification with the COI
come paramount.
Population: 509,521. White 497,050 (98%), Black
bill, nearly cost him his S
660 (0.1%), Other 10,189 (2%). Spanish origin 2,464
Apart from St. Cloud and Moorhead, a
(1%). 18 and over 355,632 (70%), 65 and over 68,572
Stangeland's Democr
sister city to Fargo, N.D., about a half day's
(14%). Median age: 28.
Sen. Collin C. Peterson, 1
theme that the farm bill W
Stangeland's fingerprints
projects as very imporant to our constituents
son blamed the bill for dr
program never got off the ground.
and well deserved, we just don't consider that
on virtually all farm comn
Stangeland was elected with critical help
ern Minnesota, and he n
from national New Right organizations, but on
pork," Stangeland said.
the Public Works Committee he is the sort of
The further the issue gets from agriculture
was on the House-Senate
pork-barrel Republican of whom the ideological
or public works, the more likely Stangeland is
that drafted the bill. "He
right is skeptical. He is bipartisan on that
to sound like an ideological conservative. In
farm policy," Peterson
come to roost."
committee, often asking other Republicans to
1982, when the House considered a five-year
support the position of the Democratic chair-
highway bill, Stangeland was one of the more
Seeking to put his
outspoken opponents of the so-called Davis-
policy, Peterson traveled
man. Stangeland is ranking member of the
Water Resources Subcommittee.
Bacon requirement that an area's prevailing
several times in 1985 to
cratic farm alternative.
Early in the 100th Congress Stangeland
wage be paid on federally funded highway
projects. Davis-Bacon has long been anathema
recorded a song in suppo
was among those voting to override President
Reagan's veto of a major highway bill. "The
to conservatives, who argue that the prevailing
Meanwhile, Stangela
president vetoed [the bill] saying it was a
wage usually turns out to be the union wage.
version Congress approved
Since then, Stangeland has introduced bills to
time to work, and in any
budget buster," Stangeland said. "I just want to
best that farmers could g
tell the people it was not a budget buster."
repeal Davis-Bacon.
Although he comes from a Frost Belt dis-
listened to a consumer-or
The bill, which was enacted over Reagan's
objections, included funding for a grade-separa-
trict rather than an energy-producing Sun Belt
Eshment.
area, he has generally voted on the producer
The incumbent did n
tion project in Moorhead, Minn., allowing a
street to run under Burlington Northern rail-
side against consumers and environmentalists
ing Home 8 leadership role in th
A Leader in C
road tracks. "For those of us who see those
"The idea that every river or stream
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fishable or swimmable is unrealistic," he once
land's campaign slogan, and he warned voters
said, criticizing the 1972 Water Pollution Act.
not to discard the seniority that had enabled
t - St. Cloud;
Moorhead
Still, Minnesota is known for its numerous
him to become the ranking GOP member on the
lakes, and Stangeland does see a role for the
Cotton, Rice and Sugar Subcommittee.
federal government in keeping them clean. He
Still, Stangeland sought to steer debate
there are few popu-
ere is a significant
is a strong supporter of the Environmental
away from the farm issue as much as possible.
the small towns
Protection Agency's clean lakes program.
He ran ads attacking Peterson as a big spender
AM 'At Home: If Stangeland has not always
in the state Senate who was anti-business and
here large Catholic
stood out in Washington, he usually stands
out of touch with the district's fairly conserva-
he surrounding farm
spart from his House colleagues at election
tive political mainstream.
some of the feel of
ny.
time. While most incumbents win with ease,
But when discussion returned to agricul-
of St. Cloud, the
Stangeland is often under siege. But he has
tural policy, Stangeland found himself on the
ricana. Sauk Centre
always been up to the test. After surviving in
defensive. He did not advertise his GOP affili-
west of St. Cloud
1986 by a scant 121 votes - a margin so slim
ation on either his campaign literature or large
f novelist Sinclair
that his victory was not secure until a recount a
billboards that dotted the district.
month after the voting - Stangeland moved up
Meanwhile, Peterson conspicuously touted
netown as the model
Main Street." Street
in 1988 to a more comfortable 55 percent.
his Democratic affiliation, both on his bill-
That 10-point victory was practically a
boards and in his TV ads that featured "Bessie
horoughfare in Sauk
Landslide for Stangeland, who had surpassed 53
the talking cow."
e it as the "Original
percent only once in his previous five re-elec-
A 57-43 percent loser to Stangeland in
tion efforts.
1984, Peterson ran virtually neck-and-neck
central sections of
In winning six full terms, Stangeland has
with the incumbent in 1986. The winner in just
more populous than
had to struggle against a number of factors.
one of the district's 23 counties in 1984, Peter-
e Republican. Sugar
Part of Stangeland's problem has been the
son carried 14 counties in 1986. But like Demo-
Moorhead in the Red
politically marginal nature of the district; Dem-
crat Gene Wenstrom, who challenged Stange-
isses some of the most
ocrat Bob Bergland held it for six years before
land in three straight elections from 1978
district. In the rolling
leaving to become President Jimmy Carter's
through 1982, Peterson fell short.
east are hundreds of
Agriculture secretary in 1977. Another problem
Two years later Peterson hoped his third-
all ponds to bodies of
has been Stangeland's less-than-charismatic
straight bid would put him over the top, but he
de. The area draws
persona. Disturbed by his narrow election vic-
got a cold reception from many of his fellow
summer tourists.
tories, he paid for a personality analysis after
Democrats, who felt it was time for a different
r the Canadian bor-
the 1982 election.
candidate. The party's endorsement went to
ewer people, and the
à But possibly Stangeland's biggest head-
former state Sen. Marv Hanson, who was able
atic. The Red Lake
ache has been a perception among many farm-
to defeat Peterson in a September primary.
1 reservations are in
ers in the rural 7th that his prime constituency
Hanson was a personally appealing candi-
le 7th.
is the sugar beet growers around his home base
date, and many Democratic leaders hoped his
in the fertile Red River Valley. That, and
background as both a farmer and a lawyer
nite 497,050 (98%). Black
identification with the controversial 1985 farm
would bring him broad support. But Hanson's
%). Spanish origin 2,464
bill, nearly cost him his seat in 1986.
home base was in Kittson County, in the far
0%), 65 and over 68,572
Stangeland's Democratic challenger, state
northwest corner of the state, and he faced a
Sen. Collin C. Peterson, pounded away at the
challenge just getting his name known around
theme that the farm bill was a bad one and that
the rest of the large district. The late primary
Stangeland's fingerprints were all over it. Peter-
added to his problems; some Democratic fund-
ant to our constituents
son blamed the bill for driving down the prices
ing sources held back until the nomination was
just don't consider that
on virtually all farm commodities in northwest-
settled.
ern Minnesota, and he noted that Stangeland
Against Stangeland, Hanson renewed the
ue gets from agriculture
was on the House-Senate conference committee
argument that the 1985 farm bill contained
ore likely Stangeland is
that drafted the bill. "He is the architect of this
logical conservative. In
farm policy," Peterson declared. "It will all
inequities that hurt some farmers. But there
seemed to be less resentment toward the bill
considered a five-year
come to roost."
than existed in 1986, and Stangeland was more
d was one of the more
Seeking to put his own stamp on farm
of the so-called Davis-
policy, Peterson traveled to Washington, D.C.,
practiced at defending it. He won all but six of
the 23 counties in the district. Four of the
at an area's prevailing
several times in 1985 to lobby for the Demo-
counties Hanson carried were around his home
erally funded highway
cratic farm alternative. He even wrote and
ias long been anathema
recorded a song in support of the legislation.
territory in the northwest.
rgue that the prevailing
Meanwhile, Stangeland argued that the
Democrats have been gunning for Stange-
version Congress approved in 1985 had not had
land ever since he won an upset victory in the
to be the union wage.
has introduced bills to
time best to work, and in any case, that it was the
1977 special election held to replace Bergland.
from a Frost Belt dis-
listened that farmers could get in a Congress that
Only four months before, Bergland had won 72
percent, but in replacing him, Democrats gave
Sun Belt
lishment. a consumer-oriented Eastern estab-
away a safe seat by running the wrong candi-
the environmentalister environe producer environmentalists
date.
voted
did not shrink from claim-
The Democratic nominee in the special
in the House. "A Friend at
election, Mike Sullivan, a former aide to Walter
iver or
in Congress" was Stange-
F. Mondale, ran on the slogan, "He's in the
809
Arlan Stangeland, R-Minn.
Bergland tradition." But it was clear to the
his prime villain. Wenstrom blamed the presi-
district's Norwegian Lutheran farmers that Sul-
dent for a tight-money policy that he said
livan, an Irish Catholic, was not part of their
maintained a depressed farm economy.
8
Jam
tradition. Stangeland - a farmer whose par-
Wenstrom carried most of the counties in
ents were Norwegian immigrants - was.
the 7th, including three counties in the popu-
After that, the Democrats switched to
lous St. Cloud area, which had been added by
Of Chisholm
Wenstrom, who had the right background and
redistricting. But Stangeland ran well ahead
ethnicity, and who almost certainly would have
around his home base in the central part of the
Born: Sept. 10, 193
held the seat for them had he been nominated
district to eke out a 1,192-vote victory.
Education: College
in 1977. Wenstrom, a former state legislator,
After the near-defeat in 1982, Stangeland
Europe, M.A. ]
teacher and farmer, held Stangeland to 52 per-
took an unusual step for an incumbent. Disap-
Occupation: Langu
cent of the vote in 1978 and 1980, and ran
pointed that he had not managed to secure the
Family: Wife, Jo G
virtually even with the incumbent in 1982,
district after five years of effort, he underwent a
Religion: Roman C
losing by less than 2,000 votes.
round of personality tests to see if he was
Wenstrom's third campaign offered a
relating to constituents effectively on a human
Political Career:
change in tactics from his previous efforts. In
level. It was hard to tell whether his comfort-
Capitol Office: 220
1980 he had charged that Stangeland's voting
able 1984 margin owed more to the testing, to
record and list of campaign contributors ex-
the fact that Reagan carried all but three coun-
In Washingto
posed him as a friend of agribusiness and major
ties in the district, or to Peterson's lack of name
seems miscast for th
oil companies. In 1982 the challenger was rela-
identity and funding in his first challenge to
portation Committe
tively gentle to Stangeland - he made Reagan
Stangeland.
tury there as staffe
instincts of a schola
Works is a place wh
and ask questions ]
Committees
Key Votes
back seat to pork-b
At the same t
Agriculture (5th of 18 Republicans)
1987
Cotton. Rice and Sugar (ranking); Livestock, Dairy and Poultry;
scholar. The rest
Raise speed limit to 65 mph
N
Wheat, Soybeans and Feed Grains
Approve Gephardt "fair trade" amendment
N
Range street-fighte
Public Works and Transportation (3rd of 20 Republicans)
Ban testing of larger nuclear weapons
N
He is the son of a
Water Resources (ranking): Aviation; Surface Transportation
Delay "re-flagging" of Kuwaiti tankers
N
worker, and an ul
Approve tax-raising deficit-reduction bill
N
Democrat with dee
1988
Elections
potential of public
Approve aid to Nicaraguan contras
Y
in his party.
1988 General
Enact civil rights restoration bill over Reagan veto
N
With the 101
Kill 60-day plant-closing notification measure
Y
Arlan Stangeland (R)
121,396
(55%)
Pass omnibus trade bill over Reagan veto
Y
sumed his third sub
Marv Hanson (D)
101,011
(45%)
Approve death penalty for drug-related murders
Y
the panel. Having h
1986 General
Bar federal funds for abortions in cases of rape and incest
Y
opment and the II
Arlan Stangeland (R)
94,024
(50%)
Oppose seven-day waiting period for purchase of handguns
Y
subcommittees, he
Collin C. Peterson (D)
93,903
(50%)
covering aviation. ]
Previous Winning Percentages: 1984
(57%)
1982
(50%)
Voting Studies
built seniority at P1
1980
(52%)
1978
(52%)
1977 * (58%)
long ago he was 1
Presidential
Party
Conservative
Special election.
surrender it for son
Support
Unity
Coalition
it remains to be se
District Vote For President
Year
S
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S
0
S
0
and make the mos
1988
62
38
85
11
87
11
1988
1984
1980
1976
Oberstar unsu
1987
58
36
83
12
84
9
D 112.654 (48%) 102,205 (43%) 103,081 (42%) 140,207 (54%)
1986
68.
29
71
22
84
10
cratic Senate nomir
R 119,763 (51%) 135,304 (57%) 123,905 (50%) 109,051 (42%)
1985
65
33
82
14
89
9
to the House in 198
-
16,542
(7%)
1984
63
36
74
21
90
7
seat on the Ways al
1983
68
28
75
20
75
21
was back to Publ
1982
57
31
80
17
85
10
Campaign Finance
1981
71
28
83
14
93
7
however, he added
mittee, an assignme
Receipts
Expend-
of Oberstar that se
Receipts
from PACs
itures
Interest Group Ratings
debate.
1988
Stangeland (R)
$658,882
$344,281 (52%)
$693,429
Year
ADA
ACU
AFL-CIO
CCUS
He owes the B
Hanson (D)
$287,085
$128,339 (45%)
$286,577
1988
5
92
29
93
connection - forn
1986
1987
4
83
13
93
Wright. When Wri;
1986
10
80
21
59
Stangeland (R)
$578,421
$264,428 (46%)
$547,810
he appointed Obers
1985
15
81
0
67
Peterson (D)
$465,585
$217,579 (47%)
$464,246
1984
5
75
75
ing and Policy Con
8
1983
5
78
12
89
that makes commi
1982
10
81
5
90
Oberstar was amo
1981
0
93
7
95
Wright during the
mately forced the S
At the Aviati
Oberstar the pro-la
into the controv
810
JIM RAMSTAD
Born and raised in Jamestown, North Dakota, Senator Jim Ramstad moved to Minnesota
in 1965 to fulfill his boyhood dream of attending the University of Minnesota, where he
graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1968.
Ramstad attended the George Washington University Law School and graduated with
honors in 1973. From 1969 to 1975, he served in the U.S. Army Reserve, attaining the
rank of First Lieutenant.
After his discharge from active duty, Ramstad worked for the Majority Caucus in the Min-
nesota House and as a special assistant to Congressman Tom Kleppe(R-N.D.).
Following law school, Jim Ramstad worked as a Criminal Justice Act lawyer, an Adjunct
Professor of Government at American University and for Congressman Bill Frenzel.
First elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1980 when he upset a popular DFL incumbent,
Ramstad was re-elected in 1982 and 1986 by overwhelming majorities. He is a member of
the Senate Education, Finance, Judiciary and Employment Committees. In addition, he
serves on the Legislative Commission on Public Education, the Interagency Task Force on
Criminal Justice and the Commission on the Economic Status of Women. In 1989, Jim
Ramstad was named "Legislator of the Year" by the Minnesota North Star Chapter of the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society for his "Outstanding legislative leadership on behalf of
persons with disabilities."
Senator Ramstad is a member of the board of the Children's Heart Fund, Lake Country
Food Bank, Wayzata-Plymouth Area Chemical Health Commission and the University of
Minnesota Touchdown Club. He is also a member of the Minnesota Prayer Breakfast
Committee, Children's Home Society, the Citizens League, TwinWest and Wayzata Area
Chambers of Commerce, Sons of Norway, League of Women Voters, Plymouth Lions
Club, Westphal Post 251 American Legion and Plymouth Civic League.
Ramstad also has served as a director of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association,
Northwest and Ridgedale YMCA's, TwinWest Chamber of Commerce, Accessible Space,
Normandale Community College Foundation, the Northwest Hennepin Branch of the
American Red Cross and Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metro Area.
In addition, Jim Ramstad served under Governor AI Quie as chair of the State Human
Rights Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Minnesota State and Hennepin County
Bar Associations.
Ramstad is a member of the Wayzata Community Church, where he's served as lay litur-
gist and as a member of the Church's nominating Committee.
Prepared and paid for by Ramsted for Congress Committee. Chris Farni. Treasurer