Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson [“The Only Other Job I’d Like,” August] is an enigma. He speaks like a progressive, but is hellbent on sabotaging the election for neocon Tim Pawlenty.
The issues are clear. If you support regressive taxation, gutted public education, discrimination against gays, denial of women’s rights, punitive transportation policies, environmental degradation, corporate hegemony, xenophobia, then you’re a Republican and Pawlenty supporter.
You can either vote for Pawlenty outright, or waste your vote on Hutchinson. Either way, Pawlenty gets your vote. Independent candidate Ralph Nader sabotaged the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections; ditto Hutchinson. Like Nader, Hutchinson’s campaign will be financed by Republicans.
While Hutchinson’s major positions match the DFL’s, he claims a cloak of independence. Sadly, he is consumed by his own ego, and is an unwitting Republican dupe.
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