Campaign platforms take shape for Mills, Nolan

[Brickbat]

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/politics/3863677-campaign-platforms-take-shape-mills-nolan

Candidates are dusting off issues that were mainstays in their prior matchup in 2014, like Obamacare and America's foreign policy in the Middle East. However, they're also adopting new ideas in order to capitalize on public outcry from recent controversies.

For Mills, this involves channeling uproar sparked with recently released anti-abortion videos that purport to show Planned Parenthood's sale of fetal tissue for research.

Nolan taps into populism through a new degree of emphasis on gun control following a spate of mass shootings across the nation. The most recent shooting to be widely publicized was at a community college in Roseburg, Ore. While Mills makes a practice of highlighting that Nolan is F-rated by the National Rifle Association, Nolan derided Mills as a "gun salesman" in an interview.

Nolan said while he supports the Second Amendment, there can be a balance between that and gun safety.

Mills said the 2016 election "isn't going be about guns."

Etc., etc. I'm always wary about the gun issue here in the Eighth, but if Mills is going to run on Planned Parenthood, HAVE AT IT.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. The Range belongs to Nolan.

It's that area that borders District Six that is the problem. Slop over from fundies in District Six.

[glinda]

2. Safari Club (big animal killers) donate to Mills.

News is Brainerd area is not happy with the Mills family at this point selling. Job losses, etc.....I seriously don't know why the facts on the tapes being edited and bs does not get more PR.
Mills is an idiot. Dangerous idiot.

[Snobblevitch]

3. I hope Nolan does not make gun control

a central part of his campaign. That will hurt him on the range and in other parts of his district. The fact that Mills Fleet Farm sells guns will not help Nolan attract a lot of votes in most of the 8th.