Steve Sarvi received the DFL endorsement to face Rep. John Kline (R-MN) in the MN-02 race a week ago yesterday. Now he's starting to get some press coverage. The Red Wing Republican Eagle and the Farmington Independent both provide their readers the basics on his background and campaign.

Steve Sarvi had a soldier's eye view of United States foreign policy while serving in Kosovo and Iraq.
But in deployments over the past five years, the 43-year-old decided he no longer liked what he was seeing.

"I got a sense that they no longer looked up to us as a nation," the National Guard member recalled from encounters with people in Kosovo.

Steve Sarvi, a Second District Democrat from Watertown, Minn., discusses his campaign Tuesday in an interview. He will challenge U.S. Rep. John Kline, a Republican, in November.

Three months after returning from a tour in Iraq, Sarvi decided to do something about it, announcing a bid in October 2007 for Minnesota's Second Congressional District seat.
(Red Wing Republican Eagle)

This is exactly the kind of press he needs to get his campaign rolling. Articles in the local papers.

The race for the Second District U.S. House seat will have have a distinctly military flavor this time around.
On Saturday Minnesota Democrats chose Watertown resident Steve Sarvi to face incumbent John Kline in the November election. Kline is a retired Marine Colonel. Sarvi is an Army National Guard Sergeant who recently completed a tour in Iraq.

Sarvi has worked in local government since 1994. He was an administrator/clerk in Lanesboro and has worked as city administrator in Watertown. He currently is the city administrator in Victoria.

Sarvi was elected mayor of Watertown in 2000 and re-elected in 2002 and 2004.
Public service runs in Sarvi’s family. His father was a Marine officer and his mother taught him from early on to give back.
(Farmington Independent)