From the democrat dirty campaign tricks department - Minnesota division:
Kline is the Republican candidate in the Second Congressional District contest, where he is pitted against incumbent Rep. Bill Luther, a DFLer. The two have met before, and the results were very close. With a Green Party candidate also in the race this time, there is a legitimate DFL fear that Luther might lose. So Garst, a strong Luther supporter, filed as a candidate under the banner of his very own antitax party -- though Garst is anything but antitax. In fact, he's pretty darned mad about President Bush's tax cuts enacted last year. He argues, legitimately, that they favor the wealthy. But Garst knows that when some pay-no-attention voters see "No New Taxes Party" beside his name, they'll vote for him, thus increasing Luther's chances of winning.
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Remarkably, Luther has yet to express disapproval of this little gambit (although DFL Party Chairman Mike Erlandson has). And Garst and Luther campaign manager Bob Decheine, who gave a thumbs-up to the idea, keep saying Garst's action is funny. Garst says Republicans aren't laughing "because they can't take a joke."
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