Sergeant vs. Colonel For Congress in MN

More at www.theuptake.org Congressional candidate and Bronze Star winner Steve Sarvi picked up the endorsement of Minnesota’s Democratic party on Saturday. He will face incumbent Republican Congressman John Kline in the November election. Sarvi was an Army Sergeant serving in Iraq up until last year. Kline is a retired Marine Colonel. Kline has often used his military background as a shield in his past campaigns –accusing his opponents of disrespecting the uniform when they criticize him. Kline is also known for launching well-funded attacks on his opponents, falsely inferring that they support legalizing meth, wanting to give social security dollars to illegal immigrants, and wanting to reinstate the draft. It will be interesting this year to see how Kline attacks Sarvi without appearing to be attacking the military. Sarvi’s military stories highlighted how ill equipped US troops were when they went into battle. “Let me tell you about the first humvee I got into in Iraq. I slammed the door and the window fell out of that truck. That’s the war we went to.” Sarvi said Kline refuses to meet with constituents and “look them eye to eye”… a reference to Kline’s refusal to honor a promise to hold frequent face-to-face meetings with constituents after he was petitioned into holding one a year ago. Instead, Kline has opted to hold “tele town hall meetings” where random constituents are called with no notice and asked to listen to Kline speak on the phone. No public records of …