From:
Andy Driscoll
Date:
Aug 25 18:04 UTC
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TRUTH TO TELL
Wednesday, August 27 11:00AM: REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVES: Where Has All the
Reason Gone?
Old-line Minnesota Republicans have for the last decade or two been wringing
their hands and gnashing teeth over the take-no-prisoners,
make-no-liberal-friends radical right shift their party has taken as the
state's and the nation's Constitutional compact with its citizens tanks and
the proud legacy of Minnesota GOP luminaries like Governors Harold Stassen,
Harold LeVander, Luther Youngdahl, Elmer L. Andersen, Al Quie and Arne
Carlson and many other so-called moderate-to-progressive party members goes
up in smoke.
Who will bring it back? Who can bring it back to its glory as the
education-minded, workforce-developing, fair-taxation party representing
Minnesota's conservative wing? TTT'S ANDY DRISCOLL talks with a former state
GOP party chair and a think tank official about where the state's
Republicans might go to recapture its former luster as a fiscal watchdog
with a big heart.
GUESTS:
CHUCK SLOCUM - public policy consultant, former MN Republican Party chair
SALLY PILLSBURY, longtime Republican activist, professional volunteer
DANE SMITH President, Growth & Justice, former StarTribune Capitol
reporter, author, "Mr. Wellstone Goes to Washington."
INVITED:
GOVERNOR ARNE CARLSON
KFAI Radio, 90.3 Minneapolis /106.7 St. Paul / <email obscured>
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