Bobert, when I posted this, I didn't believe that Ed McGaa was a Republican plant. I still don't believe he is. What I believe is that the Green Party of MN wasn't very selective in their choice of a candidate for US Senate.

Ralph Nader came out this past weekend and volunteered to "appear" with Wellstone in a joint press conference on corporate corruption. Nader's vice presidential running mate, also from Minnesota and also a Native American, Winona La Duke, pleaded with the MN Greens NOT to run a Senate candidate in this election. But because of the anger at Wellstone for selling out the progressive left community that got him elected in the first place, they felt they had to field a candidate, and ended up endorsing the candidate they found most palatable, without knowing anything about him.

This, of course, will only hurt the MN Greens and the national Green parties because this is such a highly visible Senate race to begin with, and because it feeds into the Democratic arguments that the Green parties are running "spoiler" candidates rather than legitimate progressive candidates. Even some of the MN Green Party leadership agrees that McGaa is a pretender, but that they naively thought that fielding a non-white male candidate would be seen as legitimizing him. It hasn't, and the guy is causing the Greens so many headaches that some of the other party faithful have pushed for a primary election in September to try and get rid of the guy.