Posts by Matt Martin

Editor’s Note:  Matt Martin writes a column twice monthly.  This article is cross-posted at MNpublius.

After spending three days at this year’s annual “Take Back America Conference” I can tell you one thing: Elections have consequences.

Descending the escalators into the basement-bunker maze of the Washington, D.C., Hilton’s conference halls one might think he has stumbled [...]

Editor’s Note:  Matt Martin writes a column twice monthly on the 1st and 15th (he’s 2 days early).  This article is cross-posted at MNpublius.

With this session’s most politically tenuous piece of major legislation finally hitting the Governor’s desk, political observers are waiting with bated breath to see how blindly loyal Pawlenty is to his ideological [...]

Editor’s Note:  Matt Martin writes a column twice monthly on the first and 15th.  This article is cross-posted at MNpublius.

As I wrote in my previous column in this space, I think that the DFL leadership in the Senate and, to a lesser degree, the House has made a strategical error in the formulation of their [...]

Editor’s Note: Minnesota Monitor is happy to welcome back Matt Martin of MNpublius, who will be writing twice monthly columns on the first and 15th.  This article is cross-posted at MNpublius

If you’ve opened a newspaper in the last 2 weeks you’ve no doubt heard the news: the DFL controlled state legislature has voted to change [...]

This is only the third installment of my bi-monthly editorial (15th and 30th of every month people, be there or be square) at Minnesota Monitor but I feel as though we’ve already covered some good terrain.  First we picked up the PolyFuture3000 binocs to take a peek at the 2010 Gubernatorial race and then we [...]

Editor’s Note: Minnesota Monitor is happy to welcome back Matt Martin of MNpublius, who will be writing twice monthly columns on the first and 15th.  This article is cross-posted at MNpublius

The length of the political campaign season is getting a little out of control in the United States.  When you have two prominent politicians of [...]

At the outset of the mid-term election cycle Minnesota was rated nationally as the best chance for a Republican Senate seat pick-up in 2006.  A year later and four days away from the finish line, the extent of the reversal of those early predictions is nothing short of astounding. 

A combination of national anti-incumbant, anti-republican sentiment, [...]

The Pawlenty attack train (he actually rented a plane, but let’s stick with the train imagery) was chugging at full steam all around the state yesterday making a stop pretty much anywhere people would listen.  But somehow team Pawlenty failed to contact one of the largest TV stations in the Fargo/Moorhead market (not an insignificant [...]

John Kline has moved his attacks on Coleen Rowley’s immigration policy out of the print world and onto the airwaves.  The thing that amazes me about this push is that while Coleen Rowley has a clearly defined and quite reasonable immigration policy (that bears no resemblance to the smear Kline attempts in his ad) that [...]

For the as long as I can remember Mary Kiffmeyer has been claiming that she was born in Pierz, Minnesota.  According to her website:
Mary was born December 29th, 1946 in Pierz, a small Minnesota town south of Brainerd.

This information also appears on the CWTC site and her Wikipedia entry.  But it doesn’t appear on the [...]