ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Democratic governor race is a bit less crowded today after state Sen. Tom Bakk dropped out.
The Cook senator said Saturday that he did not think he could get the required 60 percent of the state convention delegates to win the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's endorsement. He said he will turn his full attention to his job as Senate Tax Committee chairman.
As tax chairman, he will play a key role as the state works to get out of a budget deficit.
Ten candidates remain in the hotly contested DFL contest, with House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak considered frontrunners for endorsement by state delegates at the late-April DFL state convention in Duluth.
