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2020 General Election
A Democrat can win MN 01. Tim Walz did. Tim resisted the effect of the changing population in the district. The district was turning R. Tim Walz resisted successfully.
Walz 53-47 in 2006
Walz 62-33 in 2008
Walz 49-44 in 2010
Walz 57-42 in 2012
Walz 54-46 in 2014
Walz 50.4-49.6 in 2016
In 2018, Tim Walz ran for governor. And won.
In 2020, Dan Feehan https://www.danfeehan.com/ ran for MN 01. And lost. By a little more than 1300 votes while Trump won the district by 14 points.
Feehan 49.7-50.1 Hagedorn
Dan Feehan plans to make up the 1,335 votes he lost by and more. By demonstrating he is a Minnesota country boy. By emphasizing his service to country and to kids. Military, National Security Official, and middle school teacher.
By attacking Jim Hagedorn. The incumbent. Now the incumbent.
Who is Jim Hagedorn? The conservative Washington Examiner worried, in 2018, that his misogyny would prevent them from flipping this Democratic seat:
“The electorate knows Hagedorn after watching him run for Congress and lose in 2010, 2014, and 2016, which is nearly the political equivalent of the Cubs’ 108-year championship drought. The difference is that the Cubs Inspire sympathy. Hagedorn does not.”
“A prolific conservative blogger while a U.S. Treasury Department employee, his internet archive is full of the locker room talk…. Ahead of the 2002 midterm elections, Hagedorn called Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., ‘undeserving bimbos is tennis shoes.’ During the confirmation hearings of Harriet Miers in 2005, Hagedorn described her Supreme Court nomination as an effort ‘to fill the bra of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.’ Throughout the 2008 presidential election, Hagedorn complimented the Republican ticket, writing, ‘On behalf of all red-blooded American men: THANK YOU SENATOR McCAIN, SARAH’S HOT!’
Wikipedia reports on his history of controversial articles and statements, “including birtherism, sexist insults, derogatory reference to a wheelchair-bound veteran, and joking about the death of a political opponent …. [as well as criticism [using antisemitic tropes. In 2018, the National Republican Congressional Committee ran an advertisement accusing Hagedorn’s opponent, Dan Feehan, as well as Colin Kaepernick and ‘left-wing mobs paid to riot in the streets’, of being ‘owned’ by Jewish philanthropist George Soros. In 2008, Hagedorn wrote (approvingly) in his blog that former Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman supported the Iraq War because he is Jewish.”
What does Hagedorn say about himself? His official website (he doesn’t have a campaign website up yet). Check his bland and empty statements:
Votes and Legislation
“One of the most important aspects of Congress is developing, making, and monitoring laws. New legislation is passed almost every week. Please contact our office to share your thoughts on current legislation that may affect you, your family and your community”.
“Learn more about legislation sponsored and co-sponsored by Representative Hagedorn.” (He lists one bill.)
Recent Votes
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If the constituents of the 1st Congressional District of Minnesota reelect this guy, they will be doing themselves a disservice. They have an interesting and able alternative. The same one they had in 2018.
Dan Feehan is what a Congressional candidate should be. He grew up in Red Wing Minnesota, in MN 01. As a child, he was enamored of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone. His goal was public service.
On September 11, 2001, Dan Feehan was in Washington, DC. His public service goal became joining the military. He signed up for ROTC, graduated, and served two combat tours in Iraq.
Out of the service, he joined Teach for America. He had decided to teach during his second tour in Iraq after seeing the impact of violence on the kids there. He wanted to work with American kids affected by hard times. He worked in the South Side of Chicago and then taught a sixth grade in Gary, Indiana. “I’m not calling it a war zone, by any means, but I saw youth pretty much challenged by their environment, and a school in need.”
Dan Feehan liked the classroom. He also liked the woman who taught English to the same kids. He married her. They left together for Cambridge, MA here he got a Master’s in public policy at the Kennedy School. That was followed by an internship in the White House. The internship brought him back to the military. After serving as a staffer, he won an appointment as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness.
It is hard to believe, but in the 2018 campaign, Jim Hagedorn questioned Dan Feehan’s patriotism. Since the defeat in 2016, Dan Feehan has been working for the Farmer’s Union working with struggling farmers. He points out the uncertainty farmers have had to live with. The trade war with China has made it difficult to know what crops to plan on.
Dan Feehan https://www.danfeehan.com/ brings a practical approach to his campaign and to politics. He is a contrast to the character now in the seat. If the people are MN 01 are tiring of Donald Trump, they are certainly tiring of Jim Hagedorn. Help turn that tiredness into electing Dan Feehan to Congress.
Expand the House majority. Win the Senate. Succeed in the Midwest. Look at my Notes. Google them. Think about who to give some money to. Think about ways to volunteer
MiDWEST Notes so far this year:
Iowa:
Senate Theresa Greenfield for US Senate
IA 02 Rita Hart to win an open Democratic seat.
IA 03 Cynthia Axne for reelection, 13th closest D win in 2018
IA 04 J.D. Scholten to defeat Incumbent Steve King
Illinois:
IL 13 Betsy Dirksen Londrigan to defeat incumbent Rod Davis
IL 14 Lauren Underwood for reelection, 18th closest D win
Michigan:
Senate Gary Peters for reelection
MI 08 Elisa Slotkin for reelection, 17th closest D win in 2018
Minnesota:
Senate Tina Smith for reelection
MN 01 Dan Feehan to defeat incumbent Jim Hagedorn