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DFLer Stanton to run again for U.S. Senate
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Darryl Stanton, an Eden Prairie entrepreneur who challenged Amy Klobuchar for the DFL Party nomination for the U.S. Senate two years ago, has announced that he is making another run for the Senate.
In a prepared statement, Stanton, 45, said he favors "a quick and responsible end to the war in Iraq" and more funding for education and college financial aid.
Stanton joins a field of four people vying for the DFL endorsement to challenge Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. The other DFL candidates are Mike Ciresi, Al Franken, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer and Dick Franson; another DFL hopeful, Jim Cohen, dropped out of the race last week.
A native of Washington, D.C., Stanton moved to Minnesota in 1981 on a basketball scholarship at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. He was a paid political activist in the Twin Cities for Urban Concerns Workshop Inc., and from 1990 to 2000 was director of multicultural admissions at Hamline University in St. Paul.
In 2000, Stanton sought DFL backing to run against U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., but lost. Two years later, Stanton won the party's endorsement but lost by a wide margin to Ramstad. In 2006, he was Klobuchar's lone opponent in the DFL primary and won 7 percent of the votes.
KEVIN DUCHSCHERE
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