Mark Dayton, wuss...

I remember that back when Emmer did his 3-day bus tour around the state, finishing at his new HQ he casually pointed out his DFL tracker. We all laughed. Mark Dayton on the other hand can't take it, maybe it's because he knows sooner or later he's bound to say something stupid in public and have it caught by cameras. Mark my words (haha unintentional pun), he will have a "Macacca" moment very soon.
DFL gubernatorial hopeful Mark Dayton said Monday that GOP operatives harassed him at an outdoors expo over the weekend and prevented him from talking to Minnesota voters.

By following him at close range with inexpensive Flip cameras, Dayton said the video trackers "made it impossible for me to conduct normal campaign activities."

Republicans say that the staffers they hired to track and record Dayton were polite and that Dayton overreacted to a time-worn tactic that political parties use to keep tabs on rivals.

"When you interfere with the ability of Minnesotans to walk up to another candidate and have a civil conversation, you have gone too far," Dayton wrote in a letter to state GOP chairman Tony Sutton. "It is intentional harassment, disruption of our campaign activity and intimidation of Minnesota voters."

Dayton called on all three parties to stop using so-called candidate trackers except at public events like candidate forums and debates. He said that trackers should clearly identify which party or candidate they work for.

GOP spokesman Mark Drake said that Republican party officials won't change their use of trackers.

"I am sure Mark Dayton would like to hide from the voters for the next three months, but that's just not going to happen," Drake said. "This isn't 1982. Tracking is a routine part of politics now. ... I've never seen this sort of bizarre, weird, erratic reaction."