In the previous gubernatorial election Tim Pawlenty ran against Mike Hatch. Mike Hatch ran as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Other candidates for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party have included:

Al Franken for US Senator
Keith Ellison for US Representative

Highlights of Keith Eillison’s career includes support of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, and his public defense of terrorist Kathleen Soliah.

One supporter of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party includes Randall Hayes who believes that President Bush allowed 911 to happen as a pretext to war:

In October 2004, Hayes joined such prominent activists as the Marxist anti-war speaker Stan Goff and Progressive Caucus member Cynthia McKinney in signing the 911 Truth Statement, “which called for immediate public attention to unanswered questions suggesting that people within the current [George W. Bush] administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.

Of course this is just scratching the surface on the party that surrounds Tim Pawlenty’s opponent, Mike Hatch and the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.