My Point of View: You Know Where to Find the County’s Republican Party

Try as it may, a bee can rarely convince the common house fly that pollen is preferred over poop. Politics has become very similar. If the questions voters want answered aren’t easily available to them and only the information candidates offer is canned, scripted and typical political fluff, then we’re often just being fed a line of — not honey.

Southern Minnesota has a great collection of current representatives up for re-election and their fellow conservative candidates we are proud to celebrate. We are blessed with political figures who are easy to contact and are as available as our friends and neighbors. Everyone from our very respected former teacher, state Rep. Peggy Bennett, to candidates who are a local carpenter and a national radio host, Gene Dornink and Jason Lewis, and especially our local congressman serving in Washington, D.C., Jim Hagedorn. Congressman Hagedorn has visited Albert Lea