Word: rolvaag
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...struck out as a party man. He appointed his own associated to key positions instead of party stalwarts. Always remote to the DFL hierarchy, Rolvaag particularly annoyed the regulars by refusing to stump for legislative candidates...
...July, 1965, the D.F.L. executive committee met at Sugar Hills, a northern Minnesota resort, and decided that Rolvaag could not win and should not run in 1966. No written resolutions came out of the conference but when word of what had happened there leaked to the Minneapolis papers in September, Rolvaag was as good as dumped...
...D.F.L. convention nine months later was gruelling and bitter but still something of an anti-climax. Keith needed twenty ballots to win its endorsement but Rolvaag didn't even stay for the finale. The governor hoped to block Keith and force the convention to adjourn without endorsing anyone, but even six months of vigorous Rolvaag campaigning in early 1966 and growing apprehension over Keith's dangerous liabilities couldn't turn the Democrats from the course set at Sugar Hills...
...Republicans began by coosing the weakest of three potential candidates for governor. Anderson, the self-made loser in 1962, was still the party's strongest man and could have beaten either Rolvaag or Keith. But the former governor played his cards wrong again. He feigned non-candidacy through most of 1966, hoping finally to be the compromise choice of a deadlocked convention. It didn't work...
Instead they picked Harold Levander, a relatively unknown St. Paul lawyer who is running for statewide office for the first time. Levander held on to his support among rural conservatives at a long confused convention in late June. But Rolvaag had not yet declared his candidacy and Republicans wasted their convention time attacking Keith's "craven ambition" and "assassination of a friend...