Jerry Dempsey retiring

Via www.raycox.net, Rep. Ray Cox's blog, we see that Republican Rep. Jerry Dempsey is not running again.

The thing that comes to mind when I think of Rep. Dempsey is that he likes to yell. And that's about it. He did get elected over and over in his district, though, so he was a formidable opponent for aspiring DFL representatives. However, in the last election, Sandy Wollschlager, who is quite the unique candidate, managed to get pretty close. It's going to be hard to run as a Republican next year, I think, so if Wollschlager runs again, the Democrats may have a pretty good shot at winning this district.