Ellison: Do you mind if we change the subject?

Keith Ellison filed for office today and announced he was going to hold a series of town hall meetings to focus on health care. Ellison, the DFL endorsed candidate in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District, has been battling some campaign problems in recent weeks. He's been criticized for his relationship in the mid 1990s with members of the Nation of Islam and had his driver's license suspended because of unpaid parking tickets. Ellison said conservative Republicans and others were criticizing him because they disagree with this politics.

This is what he said:

"I am the progressive in the race. I know people who are right wing conservatives don't like some of the ideas that I'm talking about, and maybe some conservative democrats are threatened to, but the fact is that this is a campaign to put forward a progressive agenda that looks at the average working person."

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