Congressman Kennedy from Minnesota this month announced that he’ll run for the Senate seat Democrat Senator Dayton is retiring from in 2006.

According to Minnesota Public Radio, Kennedy believes a successful campaign should be started as early as possible:

“Kennedy maintains a successful Senate campaign needs to begin very early in the year before the election.

‘I’m a common sense, solution-based guy, 20 years in business, focused on how do you get things done,’ Kennedy explains. ‘And I think if you look at the successful Senate campaigns in the last cycle, almost all of those were announced in January or February. I do want to listen. I do want to reach out, meet as many as I can face-to-face, and that requires starting a little earlier.’

In fact, of the nine newly-elected senators in 2004, only two launched campaigns early in the year before the election, as Kennedy is doing now. And not since Democrat Paul Wellstone’s run for the 1990 election, has a Senate candidate in Minnesota begun formally campaigning prior to an election year.”

Kennedy has been taking several bloggers along with him on the campaign trail — including Garry Miller from the blog formerly known as Dayton v. Kennedy.

Garry has invited a couple other bloggers to join him. Together they are continuing the work to give the Senate another pro-family, pro-growth senator. Check out their pictures and commentary straight from the trail. You can also contribue to Kennedy’s campaign here.
(Courtesy of Hugh Hewitt.)