Mark Kennedy
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Mark Kennedy (born April 11 1957 in Benson, Minnesota), is an American politician. Kennedy has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001. He represented the 2nd District of Minnesota during the 107th Congress (2001-2003). The reapportionment following the 2000 Census resulted in Kennedy running for and winning the 6th District seat ([map]) in 2003. He received his B.A. at St. John's University and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Kennedy has been a strong supporter of American policy in Iraq and President George W. Bush. He supports giving the President a line-item veto. In 2004, he declined to provide any responses to issues included in the 2004 National Political Awareness Test run by Project Vote Smart.
2006 U.S. Senate campaign
Kennedy is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat-Farm-Labor Senator Mark Dayton. Kennedy is likely to win the Republican primary on September 12, 2006, because former Senator Rod Grams has announced he will not be running.
Electoral history
- 2004 Race for U.S. House of Representatives - 6th District
- *Mark Kennedy (R) (inc.), 54%
- *Patty Wetterling (DFL), 46%
- 2002 Race for U.S. House of Representatives - 6th District
- *Mark Kennedy (R), 57%
- *Janet Robert (DFL), 35%
- *Dan Becker (I), 7%
- 2000 Race for U.S. House of Representatives - 2nd District
- *Mark Kennedy (R), 48%
- *David Minge (DFL) (inc.), 48%
Fact-check controversy
On October 15, 2003, he read from a circulating Internet hoax while giving testimony on the floor of the House of Representatives in support of an Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill. [link][link] The hoax article, a comparison between Germany after WWII and the then-current situation in Iraq, had been disproven well before the date of testimony [link]. He neglected to fact-check the source article and had it inserted into the Congressional Record. This fact-check failure isn't mentioned on his campaign website's fact-check page.
External links
- [Official website]
- [Senate Campaign Website]
- [2006 Minnesota CD 6 Candidate List from VIS]
- [record maintained by the Washington Post]
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