Interesting profiles on the six politicos in your “Sculpting a Candidate” article [November]. One is a good pal of mine. However, I can’t be the first to note that all six of the people profiled were employed by those on the liberal side of the ledger. Are we to believe there is not one hard-working, interesting person who’s toiled for a Minnesota Republican who might have been included in the article? The conventional wisdom is that The Rake is a reflexively left publication, whether intentional or not. But I have to ask about your editorial meetings where this article was discussed. The names of the politicians sprinkled in the article read like an ACLU mailing list: Skip Humphrey, Amy Klobuchar, R. T. Rybak, John Marty, Paul Wellstone, Tom Harkin … it goes on. And for the over-fifty crowd, we even got Bobby Kennedy and Michael Dukakis.
If by chance this tilt didn’t occur to somebody, it says something about your—dare I say it—bias, or rather naive editorial process. Even the insertion, at the beginning of the piece, of a lighthearted sentence acknowledging the DFL celebration about to follow would have helped.
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