Bell Proposes Series of Debates with Klobuchar [View All]

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Hey my Minnesotan friends.. I hear Bell was amazing tonight... Yahoo picked up the story as well... check it out. :)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060121/pl_usnw/bell_proposes_series_of_debates_with_klobuchar__says_race_now_is__clear_choice_about__soul__of_dfl104_xml

Bell Proposes Series of Debates with Klobuchar; Says Race Now is 'Clear Choice About 'Soul' of DFL'
Contact: David Lilly, 612-280-2755 or Olin Moore, 612-384-4757

LAKEVILLE, Minn., Jan. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a speech at the DFL Central Committee meeting here, U.S. Senate candidate Ford Bell challenged Amy Klobuchar to a series of debates around the state to discuss "the serious issues facing the nation, and the kind of party the DFL will be."

Bell praised Patty Wetterling, who withdrew from the race Friday, saying she has brought "hope and promise" to the DFL. With her withdrawal, he said the DFL Senate race is now a "referendum on the Party's soul."

Bell also blistered Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the chair of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, saying that Schumer's message to the DFL grassroots was "sit down, shut up, we're from Washington and we know best."

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During the speech, Bell also spoke about a specific timetable to end the war in
Iraq and his call for universal, single-payer health care, and he renewed his challenge to Ms. Klobuchar and presumptive Republican nominee Rep. Mark Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) to join his pledge to make such a health-care bill the first act of Minnesota's next Senator.

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