US Congress, 6th District
No longer facing a primary election opponent, Tarryl Clark now focuses on campaign to defeat incumbent Bachmann

From the Minneapolis Labor Review, June 18, 2010

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review editor

MINNEAPOLIS — With labor support, Tarryl Clark won first-ballot endorsement March 27 from the DFL Party to run against Republican incumbent Michele Bachmann for Sixth District U.S. Congress. First, however, Clark faced the prospect of a primary race against the woman she beat at the DFL’s Sixth District Convention, Maureen Reed. Reed filed to run in the August 10 primary, but then withdrew from the race June 6. Now, Clark’s campaign can focus all its resources and energy on the race to beat Bachmann.

The morning after Reed’s withdrawl from the race, the Labor Review interviewed AFL-CIO endorsed Clark, who is a two-term member of the Minnesota Senate representing the St. Cloud area since 2005.

“We’ve still got lots of work to do,” Clark said. “Washington still isn’t working for working families and neither is Representative Bachmann.”

Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District suffers from the highest unemployment rate and the highest home foreclosure rate in the state.

Yet incumbent Bachmann’s staff employs more public relations aides than legislative aides.

“While she’s been running around the country promoting her own agenda, people are struggling back home. Enough is enough,” Clark said.

“It’s critical we spend this time over the summer cutting through the noise, talking member to member, neighbor to neighbor, doorknocking, phone-banking,” Clark said.

“We have no time to waste,” Clark said. We all need to be working hard, reaching out to voters.”

“We’ve got friends in labor who are not necessarily Democrats,” Clark noted. “We want to be sure they know that the issues we’re focusing on — jobs, affordable health care, making sure people stay in their homes — those aren’t partisan issues.”

Contact:
www.tarrylclark.com

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