Minnesota Lawyer
Jeff Blodgett
Jeff Blodgett will once again helm President Barack Obama‘s campaign in Minnesota. The former executive director of Wellstone Action started with the campaign on Monday.
“The reason is pretty simple: I believe in this president and I want to see him have four more years to move the country forward,” Blodgett tells PIM. “This is going to be a tough election. We have to fight hard for the president and can’t take anything for granted at all.”
Four years ago Obama carried Minnesota by 10 percentage points. No Republican has won the presidential vote in the state since 1972. A January poll by Public Policy Polling found that Obama would beat any of the GOP presidential contenders by at least 10 percentage points.
Blodgett most recently served as executive director of the DFL-aligned independent-expenditure group WIN Minnesota. He was replaced by Adam Duininck, who previously worked as political director of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49. Blodgett initially cut his political teeth working on the Senate campaigns of Paul Wellstone.
“We have a choice,” Blodgett said, “and it’s about whether we keep moving forward and build an economy that works for everyone or go back to the unfair rules of a decade ago that led us into the problems that we had.”
