Minnesota: Loony like an independent in a partisan swamp

Loony flu hits Minnesota TODAY'S COLUMNISTBy Barry CasselmanMay 19, 2006 Washington Times ...To complicate matters further, the Independence Party has come up with a dynamic 29 year-old centrist candidate (his 30th birthday is a few weeks before the new Senate would be sworn in) named Robert Fitzgerald, who is going around the state in a colorful bus. (The last Irish-American 29-year-old who ran for the Senate against impossible odds was Joe Biden in Delaware in 1972. He won, is still in the Senate and running for president in 2008.) ... more