Marty in 2010?

Joe Kimball suggests that John Marty wants to run for governor.

Question 1.  What do Warren Spannaus, John Marty, Mike Freeman, Don Moe, and Mike Hatch have in common? Answer: They were all chosen by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to be its choice for governor.

Question 2.  How did Governors Spannaus, Marty, Freemsn, Moe, and Hatch do?  Answer:  It's a  trick question.  None were ever governor.

It is a cold and hard fact that in this alleged blue state that the last time the DFL was able to endorse and elect non-incumbent governor was in 1970 when they chose State Senator Wendell Anderson. To put this into perspective that was in the middle of Richard Nixon’s first term while Saint Paul had its Supermayor, Bill Rigney had brought the Twins to their second consecutive American League West championship [and the Designated Hitter rule was still two years away], just a few months after the Apollo 13 adventure, and twenty years before this year’s youngest voters were born. [For that matter, it was in that same 1970 election that Minnesota voters approved a constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to nineteen.]

Question 3.  Which of the men mentioned above lost the worst? Answer:  You could make a case that it was Freeman who managed to lose 2 to 1 to a Republican that the GOP had not supported, either in that election or the one previous.

Question 4. Can the DFL learn to pick better?  Answer:  I really do not know, but I guess Senator Marty thinks they won’t.