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4 unusual facts about Gil Gutknecht


Allen Shofe

He has also served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Gil Gutknecht; head of corporate and regulatory affairs-Middle East and North Africa at BAT Industries; Division manager at 3M; aide to former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson; and Campaign Director for the Minnesota Republican Senate Caucus.

U.S. Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia

Others, such as those involving Gil Gutknecht, were reported but received less widespread coverage.

On August 16, 2006, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the office of Representative Gil Gutknecht tried twice—on July 24 and August 14, 2006—to remove a 128-word section in the Wikipedia article on him, replacing it with a more flattering 315-word entry from his official congressional biography.

United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2006

In his bid for a seventh term in Congress, incumbent Republican Congressman Gil Gutknecht faced off against Tim Walz, a high school teacher and the DFL nominee in this swing district based in southern Minnesota.



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