Can the former lumberjack fell the mighty congressman?
Sean Duffy sits in his sparsely furnished campaign headquarters in Ashland and suggests that, by the time he’s in his 50s, he’d like to be able to spend his days chopping wood and climbing trees. Right now, though, the Hayward native is trying to chop down one of the most powerful politicians in America. The 38-year-old Ashland County district attorney, father of five and former “professional lumberjack” is out to fell Dave Obey – the longest-serving U.S. representative in Wisconsin history. Obey is a colossus, a guy who has been in politics so long they are already naming buildings after him. The famously acerbic and all-powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee was first elected during the Nixon administration – and, suggests Duffy, he acts like it. “I think he is arrogant,” said Duffy, sitting in an office in downtown Ashland across from the courthouse one recent morning. “I think he is smart, but he is arrogant.” For years, Obey could afford to be. The guy has won so
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