His name was hardly a household word in Minnesota, and virtually all Richard Palmer, 40, knew about politics he put in the papers he rantwo Duluth weeklies owned by his father. So it seemed mildly quixotic last fall when Palmer laid down his pencil and took up a megaphone to run for the Minnesota state senate.
The gesture was decidedly well timed. Palmer's opponent, Francis ("Frenchy") LaBrosse, though a six-year incumbent, was suffering from the wounds of a feud with his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Thus, in a traditionally Liberal * district, Palmer...
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