LINE O LAKES, Minn. — State Representative Elliott Engen has come forward as having agreed to be on Peggy Bennett’s gubernatorial ticket as her lieutenant governor. It was unclear when Bennett and Engen agreed to be team mates. Neither one ever announcnced the partnership. It is clear, niw however, that their communication has been sporadic to say the least. It was in a text Tuesday that Engen notified Bennett that he was reneguing. Engen had been a rising star in Minnesota Republican politics until March when he was arrested for driving drunk after skipping a House committee meeting. With Engen in the car was drinking buddy Walter Hudson, a fellow legislator, who was carrying a gun. Since then: Engen, age 27, has been under a House ethics investigation.
Engen. In second term from House District 38A. Earlier in the year he campaigned for state auditor but withdrew. Politically a right-winger in the spirit of the Charlie Kirk.