Cross-posted at MN Campaign Report - drop by sometime!
This is the third interview I've conducted with a DFL congressional candidate (fourth if you include Gail Dorfman, who lost the CD5 DFL endorsement to Keith Ellison), but the candidate is in perhaps the most interesting position of any with whom I've spoken. Wendy Wilde is not an elected official, and hasn't been running very long - and projects that in terms of partisan voting patterns, 2006 could be an extremely interesting election in Minnesota's Third Congressional District. We talked about the district, issues, and the eye-catching campaign slogan you may have seen on bumper stickers here and there.
MNCR: Tell me a little bit about your background - where did it all begin?
W. Wilde: I grew up outside Eau Claire, Wisconsin, but spent some of my childhood in the Twin Cities with family here. As a child I got into radio really early, and actually convinced my family to let me get out of Catholic high school so I could go to a public school with a radio club. I got into that, and have been doing radio for about thirty years now.
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