Almanac: At the Capitol

There's been a couple of candidates running real campaigns to replace 3rd District Congressman Jim Ramstad for weeks now. But many of us in the political world have been wondering when a candidate was actually going to hold that big kick-off event. Now State Senator Terri Bonoff will become the first to make it official at a press conference Monday at Hopkins High School. I bet we'll hear from State Representative Erik Paulsen soon too. It's amazing how quickly this seemed to turn into a two person race. Remember when Sabo announced his retirement and there were more than a dozen candidates just on the DFL side? Granted, this is a totally different district and the quick narrowing of the candidates probably speaks to the fact neither party wants to spend time or money fighting internally when the seat could be a toss up. I should mention another Democrat, Ashwin Madia, (who's website takes forever to load) and most have never heard of says he's running. But this sure is going to be interesting!