DFL candidate for governor Margaret Anderson Kelliher Sunday headed out on a week-long five stop tour to promote a package of investments (aka state cash) to get "Minnesota back to work."

At Minneapolis news conference for the "No Stone Unturned" tour, Kelliher said Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty "rolled over and hit the snooze button" on creating jobs. (Question: Do stones have alarm clocks?)

Kelliher's job creation proposal includes lot of government cash: $1 billion in capital investment in each of the next two years, pulling in $1.4 billion in federal health care dollars (which would cost the state about $200 million on top of what it's already spending), $8-9 million in loans and other programs for small businesses and $10-11 million in energy efficiency programs and clean energy programs.

But, she says the spending wouldn't much bust the deficit beyond what's already budgeted.

Although in her news release she said "I won't rest until 214,000 Minnesotans are back on the job," she later said she doesn't actually expect zero percent unemployment in the state. Rather, by the end of one term, she said, at least half of the current 214,000 unemployed Minnesotans would be back to work. That would bring Minnesota's unemployment figure from about 7.2 percent to about 3.6 percent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Minnesota's historically lowest unemployment figure was 2.5 percent in March of 1999.

The Kelliher campaign has stops planned in Duluth, Keewatin, Faribault, Brainerd and Richfield this week and said there will be similar "No Stone Unturned" events scheduled in the future.