Sixth District Walking Tour: Today’s Schedule

At about 8 a.m. today, I will set out on foot from the east end of the new Sauk Rapids bridge in downtown Sauk Rapids for the second leg of my Sixth District walking tour. I will walk south on Benton Drive and then along Highway 10 to Clear Lake (15 miles), Becker (7 miles), and possibly Big Lake (8 miles), for a total of 30 miles. I hope to reach Big Lake by 6 p.m.

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Update

I had to call it a day about 5 miles short of reaching Big Lake, when thundershowers began moving in. Miles covered on foot today: 24.

Aubrey Immelman stands at the east end of the new Sauk Rapids bridge over the Mississippi at the start of the second leg of his 100-mile Sixth District walking tour, Aug. 11, 2008.

Aubrey Immelman in Salida, between Becker and Big Lake at Highway 10 and County Route 11 to Santiago and Monticello, at the end of the second leg of the Sixth District walking tour, Aug. 11, 2008. (Gas down from $4 to $3.57 already, and I’ve barely started campaigning!)

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From Eric Zaetsch’s “Developers are Crabgrass” Blog

Aubrey Immelman, a progress report. A conservative candidate progressing, and a progressive GOP conserving.

August 10, 2008

Excerpt

Supporters and those wanting to meet and greet will have most of the week for that. He already was on the road, Saturday. Please show up along the route, to welcome him.

From all I have seen he is a promising candidate and his GOP ambitions are sincere. And he welcomes company on the District tour-rally.

Bike along, if you are in shape. Be there or be square, and tell him Crabgrass sent you.

I intend posting more about Immelman. I find him interessting. For now, there’s the tour. And, he has called himself “a Chuck Hagel conservative.” Since we all know by now that Sen. Hagel was one of two foreign affairs – military affairs consultants accompanying Sen. Obama’s fact-finding trip to the two war zones, and Wikipedia reports, “Hagel announced on September 10, 2007 that he will retire from the Senate at the end of his present term and will not seek the presidency”; this could mean a cross-aisle cabinet position in the Obama presidency, much as Sen. Cohen served in Bill Clinton’s cabinet.