To the editor:

I wanted to write to congratulate Faribault on winning the new Moventas gearbox plant. In my campaign for U.S. Senate, I’ve been calling for an Apollo program for renewable energy – and saying it would create jobs for Minnesota. The great news about the new plant shows that Minnesota is ready to be the epicenter and the engine of a new energy economy. We are the Saudi Arabia of wind and the source of some of the world’s premier research institutions. Congratulations to Faribault on the new plant and the new jobs. With continued investment in renewable energy technologies, this can be the beginning of a terrific trend.

Al Franken
U.S. Senate candidate

The Faribault Daily News published this letter on September 18, 2008.

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