Carney will hold news conference Friday, August 6th, 4 PM, Room 125, State Capitol

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Minneapolis, MN, August 6, 2010 -- Candidate-journalist Bob Carney Jr. today identified six "reasonable, mainstream alternatives" to Tom Emmer.  They are: Norm Coleman, Al Quie, Jim Ramstad, Marty Seifert, David Senjem, and Steve Sviggum.  Carney has had no contact with any of these individuals, and does not believe he needs their permission to designate them as people he would accept as preferable to Tom Emmer.

Carney went to Minnesota Republican party headquarters at 10 AM Friday, August 6th, (photo below) to present a letter to the party, demanding that the party either make a statement by 2:30, or Carney would proceed to make his list public.  No statement was made by the party before the 2:30 deadline.

Carney will hold a news conference at the Capitol, Room 125, at 4:00 PM.

Carney held a news conference August 4th to announce that if he wins the GOP primary, he will withdraw if the Republican State convention is reconvened, and endorses "a reasonable, mainstream candidate for Governor, who will pledge to limit the use of unallotment, and to support an unallotment reform bill."  A video of the news conference is on www.youtube.com (enter bobcarneyvideos in the search box), and is also on Carney's www.republicancontract.com news web site.

Carney's letter to the Minnesota Republican party

At 10:00 AM on August 6th, Carney dropped off a signed and notarized copy of the following letter:

Robert S. Carney Jr.
4232 Colfax Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55409
bobcarneyjr@msn.com * (612) 824-4479

August 6, 2010

To: The Minnesota Republican party

Re: Conditional offer to withdraw as a candidate for Governor, if nominated by primary

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am demanding that an authorized spokesperson for the Minnesota Republican party issue the following statement no later than 2:30 PM today:

The Minnesota Republican party apologizes to Mr. Carney for a statement made by Mr. Mark Drake August 4, 2010 as reported by Minnesota Public Radio, suggesting Mr. Carney should not be taken seriously. We acknowledge that evidence Mr. Carney has presented to us, including extensive excerpts from a 2006 videotaped interview with Republican Minnesota House Speaker Steve Sviggum, and the Star Tribune's Monday, August 2nd, endorsement editorial is evidence that Mr. Carney deserves to be taken seriously. Mr. Carney has presented to us a list of six people he considers to be "reasonable, mainstream" Republican replacement candidates for Mr. Tom Emmer. We believe the people on Mr. Carney's list are "reasonable, mainstream" Republicans. Mr. Carney has assured us in a notarized written statement that if he wins the Republican primary, and if the Minnesota Republican convention reconvenes and endorses any of these individuals, and if the endorsed individual pledges: "to sign the last Regular Legislative Session's Carlson/Cohen unallotment reform bill if re-introduced, and to limit the use of unallotment to the terms of that bill," Mr. Carney will withdraw as a candidate, allowing the Minnesota Republican party to replace him on the General Election ballot with the endorsed replacement candidate.

I hereby give the Minnesota Republican party the assurance described in the above statement. If the statement is not issued by the Minnesota Republican Party by 2:30 PM, I will post this letter on www.republicancontract.com.

My list of people I consider to be "reasonable, mainstream" Republican replacement candidates per the above statement, and who I believe are currently eligible to serve, is as follows: Norm Coleman, Al Quie, Jim Ramstad, Marty Seifert, David Senjem, Steve Sviggum. I would be open to considering individuals other than these named individuals. Please see the attachments, and my news and information website, www.republicancontract.com, for additional evidence that I am in fact taken seriously by many people, including Minnesota Republican leaders. I would be willing to accept the a re-convened Convention's endorsement.

The voters of Minnesota deserve to know that this year's Minnesota Republican primary for Governor is now a referendum on Tom Emmer, and that We the People can choose to effect the nomination of a mainstream Republican alternative to Mr. Emmer, who will represent the Minnesota Republican party on the fall General Election ballot.
 

Signed: _________________________ 8/6/10

Robert S. Carney Jr.

Attachments, three (3)

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A video of Carney's 8/1/10 visit to GOP State Headquarters is at www.republicancontract.com, Carney's news and information web site.  "Everyone was polite and friendly," Carney said.

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