OkayEN MARTIN, the chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labour Social gathering (DFL), Minnesota’s affiliate of the Democratic Social gathering, tells a narrative about how the state’s governor, Tim Walz, received his begin in politics. In 2004 Mr Walz was a high-school trainer in Mankato, a city of 45,000 folks 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, nicely, they received kicked out of that rally by the Secret Service.” Mr Walz, in keeping with Mr Martin, “was actually pissed”—not at his college students, however on the Bush marketing campaign. “He referred to as me up…he wished to get entangled,” says Mr Martin, who made him an area marketing campaign organiser.
