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The first of many:

A longtime Minnesota Republican and former Supreme Court justice, Ed Stringer, is backing Democrat John Kerry in this year's presidential election.

An Associated Press review of campaign finance reports found that Stringer, who also worked for President George H.W. Bush, has contributed $2,000 to Kerry.

Reached Monday, Stringer said he didn't make the contribution as any kind of public statement.

"This is really just a very personal feeling on my part that the current administration simply did not represent the direction of the country that I would like to go," said Stringer, 69, a former chief of staff to Gov. Arne Carlson.

Stringer, a lawyer in the Minneapolis law firm of Briggs & Morgan, cited Bush's policies on issues ranging from Iraq to the environment.

"There's hardly anything that this current administration has done that I would stand up and salute, including tax cuts and right down the line," Stringer said.
(via AP)

A lot of us share these "very personal feelings" ....