Primary's are behind us and everyone kows who they will face.

So republicans last nigh sent Jeff Johnson on to the general election to face off against democrat Mark Dayton.  I think was choice the republicans could have made, Johnson who grew up is Northern Minnesota but cares nothing about it.Nor does he care about any other part of the state, he only cares and worries about the metro area.  Johnson will do nothing for the entire state of Minnesota, his efforts will only be on the metro area.

Johnson has proven that he does not care about state other then the metro and if elected that will be his focus.  I don't know how anyone in greater Minnesota could have voted for such a fool.  Johnson neglected all parts of Minnesota well campaigning.

Johnson won with 30% of the vote last night well the other three major candidates had low 20%'s of the vote.  The three split the vote of greater Minnesota.  Up here in our area the votes seemed to split between Honour (21%) and Seifert (21%).  Kurt Zellers who looked dead till late in the race got 24% of the vote, his focus became the metro and southern part of the state late in the race.

Johnson who was the endorsed candidate was very beatable by any three of these candidates the problem was that there was three candidates splitting the votes around the state.  I would have like to have seen Seifert and Honour get together and just have one of them run because if that would have happened there would have been a different result in the primary.

Dayton who had a primary but there was no real challenge there at all he won with 94% of the vote. This sets up the governors race with both major party's running a candidate I will personal will not support, so for a second straight governors election I will to a third party candidate.

The other big state wide race was on the DFL side and was for state auditor incumbent and the endorsed candidate Rebecca Otto won with ease over Matt Entenza. Many thought this race could be close, and Entenza was as well as he out spent Otto 2-1.  A very low voter turn out proved to do well for Otto who ran away with the race with 81% of the vote.  A big win over a challenger who did nothing but lie about what he could do if elected auditor.  I am glad that Otto called hims out on that, and she is clearly the best candidate for state auditor if you ask me.

Side note Minnesota State auditor Rebecca Otto will be joining me on the radio show soon, we are still working out the details on day and time but I will let you all know  when we get the interview set up.

In a local race for county board Steve Rukavina and Christin Ghujanen will face off in the general election.  The seat was held by Mike Forsman who decided he would not seek another term.  Rukavina had 52% of the vote well Ghujanen had about 25%.  This could be a close race because the third candidate in the race also had 22% of the vote.  Now if most of the people that voted for the third place candidate vote for Ghujanen this could prove to be an exciting race on the range.   It iwll be a race to keep an eye to see what happens over the next few months.