Better-educated-in-the-classroom and streetwise Americans scare the heck out of the Tom Emmers and Sarah Palins. Right-wing Republican Party candidates Tom Emmer and Sarah Palin attack our college institutions.

Tom Emmer is proposing that we slash the University of Minnesota and MnSCU budgets, essentially emulating the state of Mississippi public education system. Is there is any doubt that Americans born, raised and educated in Mississippi are more likely to walk lockstep behind economic surrenders to the silliness allowing Wall Street to police itself, that corporations should be allowed, without tax penalty, to take our best-paying manufacturing jobs to the Third World where Third World wages dictate wages on American main streets, that working Americans should oppose Medicare for all, and not limited to, that it is OK to pass legislation which will make it illegal for workers to advocate for their rights in the marketplace?

We are not silly-minded Mississippians. We Minnesotans have been much better educated in our public preschool, elementary, high school and colleges. Our majorities are much too smart to be duped by the Emmers and Palins of the world.

We have a true Minnesota champion seeking the office of governor. A champion who as a government administrator played a major role under the Rudy Perpich administration rescuing our Albert Lea meatpacking plant from economic disaster. A champion who was one of our very best Minnesota State auditors, serving from 1991 to 1995. A champion with the life experience as a teacher and social worker in American inner city schools. A champion who as a college varsity goalie learned his role to keep the whole puck out of his team’s net. A champion Minnesotan who is fully equipped to act as a manager of the budget, especially when it comes to blocking Tom Emmer silliness from entering the Minnesota net.

Our champion is gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton. Vote for Mark Dayton by absentee ballot or on Nov. 2.

Ted Hinnenkamp

Albert Lea