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To: markman46

For the record, Cameron is not the one running for office - he is a volunteer on the Steve Kelley for Governor campaign, which opened its northern Minnesota office next to the recruiting station this month. Although the sign was Cameron's idea, Kelley, a DFL state senator from Hopkins, approved of displaying it in the window.

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Kelley said Thursday that Cameron's sign is a sincere plea for people to remember the fallen, not an antiwar statement -- though he acknowledges that, like Cameron, he is personally against the war. He said getting office space next to the recruiting office was "pure happenstance."

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5772444.html


39 posted on 12/27/2005 10:17:04 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: clawrence3
yes I know that, I just could not remember who's campaign office the sign was on. here is an extract I got for the duluth news-tribune:

Duluth News-Tribune (MN) - December 8, 2005 - 01A FRONT SIGN STIRS UP CONTROVERSY DOWNTOWN, WAR DEAD: A SIGN THAT DETAILS THE NUMBERS OF DEAD AND WOUNDED U.S. SOLDIERS IN THE IRAQ WAR WON'T BE REMOVED FROM A SUPERIOR STREET CAMPAIGN OFFICE. Potential U.S. Army recruits face an unofficial and grim reminder of what joining the service could lead to at Duluth's downtown recruiting station. In the window of the office next to the recruiting station, a sign lists the numbers of U.S. servicemen and women killed or wounded in the Iraq war. ``Iraq,'' the sign reads. ``Remember the Fallen Heroes.'' Next to it are two green-and-white, ``Steve Kelley for...

45 posted on 12/27/2005 10:23:26 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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