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Minneapolis, MN, June 13, 2010 -- Moderate Progressive Republican candidate for Governor Bob Carney Jr. today again personally challenged his main Republican primary opponent, the endorsed candidate Tom Emmer, to three videotaped discussions of issues. Both candidates were at a candidate forum at Oak Grove Middle School in Bloomington, MN. The event was sponsored by the India Association of Minnesota, and other organizations.  Carney has video proof Emmer was at the event.  "But I'm a journalist, not paparazzi... I only videotaped him at a distance," Carney said.

Emmer again told Carney he will not participate in any videotaped discussions with Carney before the primary.

Carney, who describes himself as a "candidate/journalist", also again told Mr. Emmer he was producing a video series, to be called "Tom and me", challenging Emmer for his refusal to debate, or to answer Carney's questions. Emmer said he was "flattered."

Other candidates participating in Sunday's forum included Mark Dayton, Tom Horner, Matt Entenza, Rob Hahn, and Leslie Davis. Margaret Kelliher was represented by her Lt. Governor candidate, John Gunyou. Each candidate spoke for ten minutes. Forum rules prohibited attacks against other candidates.

"It was good to see Mr. Emmer again. But what's he afraid of? This is the first post-endorsement forum event I've been at when he participated," Carney said. "Mr. Emmer says he is on a 'listening tour' of Minnesota, and he will announce his plans -- including budget plans -- after the primary. But he's already told Minnesota Public Radio he thinks the state budget can 'easily' be cut by $10 billion. That statement is frankly ridiculous on its face. Mr. Emmer owes the voters of Minnesota an explanation before the primary -- not after it," Carney said.

Carney recently posted on youtube.com a video report on the Floodwood Minnesota Third Grade class Governor Candidate's Forum. Carney also posted excerpts of a 2006 interview with then Republican House Speaker Steve Sviggum, discussing Minnesota's system of Public Campaign Finance.

"Camcorders are a widely recognized weapon of political mass destruction," Carney said. "I plan to be producing and posting a lot of videos before the primary this year," Carney said.

The videos are available at www.republicancontract.com.  On www.youtube.com, you can enter "bobcarneyvideos" in the search box to view them. Carney's speech at Sunday's forum will be posted on www.youtube.com by Monday, 6/14/10.

Carney lays out E-12 education plan

Carney laid out his E-12 education plan as part of his speech, based on the five year "odyssey" of charter school founder and consultant Doug Lemov. According to Elizabeth Green's March 2, 2010 New York Times article Building a Better Teacher, this journey resulted in: "a 357-page treatise known among its hundreds of underground fans as Lemov's taxonomy." Lemov has recently published this as a book: Teach Like a Champion: 49 techniques that put Students on the Path to College.

According to the Green article: "[Harvard Economist Thomas Kane]: by figuring out what makes the great teachers great, and passing that on to the mass of teachers in the middle, [Kane] said, "we could ensure that the average classroom tomorrow was seeing the types of gains that the top quarter of our classrooms see today... We could close the gap between the United States and Japan on these international tests within two years."

Carney passed out one page of excerpts from Green's article. The excerpts page is available as a download at republicancontract.com. Carney's campaign will publish a full statement of Carney's application of this plan to Minnesota during the primary campaign.

"I've been involved with education throughout my career, including four years of post secondary teaching at MSB/Globe, service as interim finance director at The City, Inc., substitute teaching for St. Louis Park Public Schools, and founding orchestra programs in three school districts while I attended Macalester. This is the best article I've ever read about education," Carney said.

Ole Savior disrupts forum

Sunday's forum was marred by Ole Savior's disruption of the event. Savior stood up and raucously complained he had been unfairly excluded. He called the event organizers "cheaters", said he didn't want to talk to them any more, and left. Savior is running in the Republican primary for the first time, after ten or more appearances on DFL primary ballots. "I welcomed Ole to the Republican party earlier this year, but frankly I'm very disappointed in him. My observation has been that what he did is not an effective way of promoting inclusiveness... if you're the person trying to be included," Carney said. Carney does not plan any future effort to work together with Mr. Savior.

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