ST. PAUL -- Mark Dayton will take the oath of office at noon Monday in St. Paul's Landmark Center.
He will be joined by other statewide elected officials in the same place that Tim Pawlenty became governor in 2003.
Dayton picked "Going to Work for Minnesota" as his theme, which sounds a lot like what he and other Minnesota political candidates said during the recently completed campaign.
The Democrat plans to cap next week with a Jan. 8 "People's Inaugural Ball" inaugural dance at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Dayton said people can wear "blue jeans to black tie." He plans to wear jeans.
During the campaign, when he could dress informally, he liked to say, "Any day in jeans in a good day."
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Joining Dayton at the inaugural will be Lt. Gov.-elect Yvonne Prettner Solon, Attorney General Lori Swanson, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and State Auditor Rebecca Otto.
After the noon inaugural, Dayton and Prettner Solon will host a Capitol open house for the public from 2-4:30 p.m. The open house will include refreshments and displays from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Inaugural ball tickets, for $30, may be purchased at the door or at daytoninauguration.org .
Students and low-income Minnesotans can buy $15 tickets, and even lower prices may be requested.
Don Davis reports for Forum Communications Co., which owns the News Tribune.
