AM.MN: This time, a fellow Rep worries about voices Bachmann’s not hearing

Last week U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar expressed catty concern about whether voices Rep. Michele Bachmann hears are entirely divine. On Wednesday, another Democrat from Minnesota’s congressional delegation worried about the voices Bachmann is not hearing. She “uses her time at financial services to attack CRA,” Keith Ellison wrote on Twitter (referring to her repeated gripes about the Community Reinvestment Act before a House committee), “and then promptly walks out when experts begin testimony.”

Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

MANKATO: She’s in. State House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher made it official on the family farm: She wants to be governor. [Mankato Free Press]

MINNEAPOLIS: Email effusiveness could cost city big. Council members are supposed to remain quasi-judicial when they hear zoning appeals, but a real judge ruled that emails prove Lisa Goodman did not, in the case of a development she despised. [City Pages; Star Tribune; Downtown Journal]

RAMSEY COUNTY: Nun crossed line. Now she’s on trial for trespassing, but Sister Elizabeth A. McKenzie had a higher calling: to get an antiwar message to delegates at the 2008 Republican National Convention. [St. Paul Pioneer Press]

BEMIDJI: “A bake sale to get a math book.” That’s the way it is for schools across Minnesota due to delays in state payments imposed by Gov. Pawlenty. [Bemidji Pioneer]

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: U.S. Constitution-signing commemorated. But law-school profs must not have compared notes when they chose topics for today’s topical but also water-related lectures: “Protecting the Great Lakes Against Thirsty Southerners” and “Torturing the Constitution” (about waterboarding). [Associated Press]

SIDE LAKE: Big pot bust in the Big Woods. A million-dollar crop could mean a million-dollar fine and 30 years in prison for farmer Thorsten Otterness, whose green acres were spotted from the air by the multi-agency Boundary Waters Drug Task Force. (And unlike their metro counterparts, the task force members didn’t keep the plane for themselves.) [Duluth News Tribune]