OkEN MARTIN, the chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labour Occasion (DFL), Minnesota’s affiliate of the Democratic Occasion, tells a narrative about how the state’s governor, Tim Walz, bought his begin in politics. In 2004 Mr Walz was a high-school trainer in Mankato, a city of 45,000 individuals within the south of the state. In that yr’s presidential election, he determined to take his class to a George W. Bush occasion. Unbeknown to him, his college students had hatched a plan to tease the then president. “All of them had [John] Kerry shirts on,” says Mr Martin. “They ripped their sweaters off and, effectively, they bought kicked out of that rally by the Secret Service.” Mr Walz, in line with Mr Martin, “was actually pissed”—not at his college students, however on the Bush marketing campaign. “He referred to as me up…he needed to get entangled,” says Mr Martin, who made him a neighborhood marketing campaign organiser.
