 Campaign season is starting to pick up here around Minnesota and as Mark Dayton's term for governor comes to an end, the race for a new governor in Minnesota is wide open. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is among one of the candidates running for governor and she has appointed Congressman Rick Nolan to be her running mate. The two work campaigning all across northern Minnesota today with press conferences in Duluth, Moorhead and Brainerd. Swanson has served as Minnesota's Attorney General for Minnesota's 8th congressional district since 2013. Two areas of focus for the campaign include healthcare and education. We really want to operate as a team who uses our combined experience to make a positive difference for Minnesota. We want to make sure people have jobs that can support a family, that people have pensions so they can have a dignified retirement, that they have healthcare that doesn't bankrupt their families and that they can get their kids a good and affordable education. She really wants me to play a lead role in working with the legislature, which is very important for the governor to be successful. And she also wants me to help advise and counsel her on the federal state relations aspect of it. So having served in both places and in the legislature with her view that we would have a real team approach to getting things done for people of Minnesota. Election day is Tuesday, November 6th and if elected Lori Swanson would become Minnesota's first female governor.