Posts by Craig Cox

Chris Stewart, who on Tuesday won election to the Minneapolis School Board, yesterday admitted that he and some friends created a replica Tammy Lee for Congress Web site laden with racial epithets to lampoon Fifth District Congressman Martin Sabo’s support for Lee, the Independence Party candidate.

Stewart, who is black and is considered a rising star [...]

The Tammy Lee congressional campaign has traced what it calls a “racist, hate Web site

Despite its generally lackluster performance in Tuesday’s elections, the Independence Party will wake up Wednesday morning positioned to make a move against the major parties in ways it has never been before. The party has build a solid fundraising mechanism, a significant base of new volunteers, and can boast some of the state’s most intriguing [...]

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Hutchinson begins his concession speech (he trails a deadlocked Hatch and Pawlenty, 45 to 7 percent) with an anecdote about a marathon runner finishing last in the Olympics. “Minnesota didn’t sent us here just to start this race, they sent us here to finish it.

In a nasty piece of reverse race-baiting, an anonymous hacker has created a Tammy Lee look-alike site that lampoons Rep. Martin Sabo’s endorsement of the Independence Party’s Fifth District congressional candidate Tammy Lee. The site, http://www.trailblz.info/leetammy/hatesite/hatesite.htm, is clearly marked as “political satire

Four months into a political campaign she could never have predicted, Lucy Gerold is well on her way to what she calls “a graduate degree in civics,

Jay Benanav’s campaign to unseat Ramsey County District Judge Elena Ostby got a small boost from what appears to be an unlikely source: Donald Trump.

Britt Robson takes the local and national press to task for ignoring a Nov. 2 remark from Senate candidate Mark Kennedy that indicates the Republican endorsee is more than happy to allow U.S. troops to remain in Iraq forever.

Writing in The Blotter, Robson quotes Kennedy saying that American forces should leave Iraq only “after the [...]

Nine days prior to his presumptive endorsement at the Independence Party’s June 24 state convention, gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson and his campaign staff organized a coming out party at Metro State University in St. Paul for what he called “Team Minnesota.

An attempt to dictate what style of music a Dinkytown restaurant can play sparked a lively debate on free speech at Friday’s Minneapolis City Council meeting.

Third Ward Council Member Diane Hofstede sought to amend a liquor license agreement between the city and the Loring Pasta Bar that would stipulate that any live music played at [...]