Candidate Conversations with Jeff Ettinger, Democratic Congressional candidate for Minnesota’s 1st District

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today is one of our bonus pods leading to the midterms to bring attention to races across the country that are incredibly important, winnable and getting basically no press. Today I’m thrilled to be talking to Democratic Congressional candidate for Minnesota’s 1st District, Jeff Ettinger. Jeff is the previous CEO of the Minnesota’s meat packing giant Hormel Foods, the leader of Hormel’s foundation, a professor of business at the local university and the Democrats chance of flipping a red seat blue right after the special election in August chose to keep it red. Jeff is the the perfect example of how the Democratic Party, unlike its opponent, is not a monolith. That we have many different voices brought together by our shared set of values. We might have different ways of looking at business or tax rates, but at the end of the day we believe in democracy, human rights and the importance of the will of the American people. Jeff will work for Minnesota, his opponent will work for Republican leadership and is happy to just be one more vote for the extremist faction of what used to be the Republican Party. We can win this seat, but we can also show people that the Democrats are not just the socialist, communist monsters they make us out to be. If we were, Jeff wouldn’t be running. Guest social: https://www.ettingerforcongress.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our case law, our law that emanates from the Supreme Court and those precedents are part of our legal system
0:05.7	and the notion of having something that is the right that's been in place for 50 years just suddenly
0:10.5	withdrawn, the rug pulled out from under it. It is a recipe for chaos and that's exactly what we're seeing.
0:16.7	Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host, Lee McGowan. Let's get into it. Today's
0:32.7	pod is part of the extended series leading up to the midterm elections called Candidate Conversations,
0:37.7	where we chat with candidates from across the country whose races are deeply important but might
0:42.0	not be getting as much of our attention. Our guest today is Jeff Edinger running for Congress in
0:46.7	Minnesota's first district. This race is fascinating for a number of reasons. One, because it already
0:52.7	happened. Jeff lost a special election to his opponent Brad Feinstad in August when they
0:57.8	competed to fill the seat vacated by Republican Jim Haggerton who died in office in February.
1:02.7	But they will run against each other again to see who will represent the district for the full
1:06.8	two-year term in November. Two, because it's easy to think that the district will just go to the
1:12.0	Republicans because Trump won it by 10 points in 2020. But that was before the 1-6 insurrection,
1:18.0	before the 1-6 committee proved Trump knew he hadn't won and tried to stay in power anyway.
1:22.9	That was before Roe was overturned and Republicans proposed a national abortion ban and before Feinstad
1:29.2	voted against the Incredibly Popular Inflation Reduction Act. At the end of the day,
1:34.0	Edinger only lost by around 5,000 votes, and they are expecting to have more than 200,000 more people
1:40.4	turn out for the general. Finally, this race is fascinating because the candidate himself is
1:46.0	fascinating. On paper, Jeff Edinger could potentially fit in with the Republicans or the Democrats.
1:52.1	A CEO who made lots of money running the Minnesota-based meat-packing giant Hormel Foods,
1:57.0	he's a centrist in things like business and inflation. But a progressive when it comes to democracy,
2:02.4	women's rights and public education. He supported Mitt Romney's presidential bid,
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