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      <excerpt>...district when he was in the state Legislature in the 1980s, and could appeal to enough people in the First District to win. He said Walz's votes favoring the health care bill and stimulus demonstrate that he is &quot;out of step with the voters&quot; in the distr</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...when he was in the state Legislature in the 1980s, and could appeal to enough people in the First District to win. He said Walz's votes favoring the health care bill and stimulus demonstrate that he is &quot;out of step with the voters&quot; in the district. &quot;If </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Massachusetts, Lloyd Doggett of Texas, Maurice D. Hinchey of New York, Alan Grayson of Florida, Peter Welch of Vermont and Tim Walz of Minnesota.  A spokesman with the Federal Reserve did not have an immediate comment Wednesday afternoon. Spokesmen for </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...to track water quality in the Upper Mississippi basin. Franken hails changes to the food safety bill. Democrats like DFL Rep. Tim Walz want a review of the Fed's handling of the AIG bailout. GOP Rep. John Kline wants to keep the current backstop for the</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...is taking,&#8221; said Quist, a Republican former state lawmaker and rural St. Peter farmer. Quist&#8217;s plan to take on Rep. Tim Walz, a Mankato Democrat, isn&#8217;t a surprise. He launched his &#8220;Quist for Congress&#8221; Web site earlier this month and last week </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Allen Quist has declared himself a candidate in Minnesota's 1st Congressional District, hoping to knock of Democratic Rep. Tim Walz. Quist announced his campaign Wednesday night and planned to hold a launch event Thursday. The district covers a wide swa</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...bills now in Congress made him get back in the ring: the $787 billion stimulus bill, cap and trade, and the health care bill. &quot;Representative Walz has been on the wrong side of all three,&quot; Quist said. Walz is in his second term representing the southeas</excerpt>
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      <title>Quist makes it official: He's running for Congress in the 1st District</title>
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      <excerpt> Yet US Rep. Tim Walz, a Mankato Democrat who voted for the bill, says there can be no economic revival without a plan to stem the rising tide of ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Martha said, &amp;#39;Oh, so that&amp;#39;s what Todd (Prafke) and Tim Walz came up with. Morrow thanked Prafke, Walz, the City of St. Peter, MnDOT, Shafer Contracting Inc. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&#8203;It looks like Republican Allen Quist is jumping into the 2010 race to try and unseat two-term DFL Rep. Tim Walz in District 1. Quist, who served three terms in the Minnesota House and lost the 1994 governor&amp;#39;s race to Arne Carlson, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Former GOP gubernatorial candidate and three-term Rep. Allen Quist officially launches his campaign against U.S. Rep. Tim Walz (R MN1) today. He&amp;#39;ll be making stops in the First Congressional District key population and regional commerce ...</excerpt>
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