Campaigns

An upcoming fundraiser with Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin will cost up to $10,000, according to the event invitation (PDF) obtained by the Minnesota Independent. The April 7 fundraiser will be held in downtown Minneapolis at the Hilton Hotel following a rally at the Minneapolis Convention Center, which is open to anyone who promises [...]

A former DFL state senator told the St. Cloud Times over the weekend that he’s challenging Rep. Collin Peterson as an independent. Former Sen. Gene Waldorf was the darling of the anti-abortion movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he sponsored legislation that would ban all abortion in Minnesota except in the cases [...]

Sen. Tarryl Clark has a new mailer out in the 6th Congressional District that aims at wooing DFL activists. “Washington isn’t working for us and neither is Michele Bachmann,” it reads. “We need leadership that creates jobs and opportunity, not headaches and headlines,” the mailer says of Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar both saw positive approval ratings from Minnesotans in a poll released by Rasmussen on Friday. Also in the poll results: 49 percent of respondents said Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s presidential aspirations have affected his performance as governor.

The rhetoric in Minnesota’s First Congressional District is reaching a fevered pitch as five candidates, Randy Demmer, Jim Engstrand, Jim Hagedorn, Frank McKinzie and Allen Quist, vie for the Republican endorsement to run against DFL Rep. Tim Walz. While Quist made news early in the race when he said that Democrats were more dangerous than [...]

Rasmussen Reports released some of the first polling numbers on Minnesota’s gubernatorial race on Thursday, finding that for the most part Minnesotans are undecided about who they like for governor. And with a diluted field for the DFL, no candidate did well against both of the top Republican candidates, Tom Emmer and Marty Seifert.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty will join another likely Republican presidential contender, Sarah Palin, at a campaign event for Rep. Michele Bachmann on April 7. The appearance by Palin and Pawlenty, along with former Sen. Norm Coleman, and Reps. John Kline and Erik Paulsen, will not actually take place in Bachmann’s district, but instead in downtown Minneapolis. [...]

The campaign of Tarryl Clark released a web ad Monday that criticizes Rep. Michele Bachmann for her past stance on Social Security privatization and her February comments about wanting to “wean” future generations off the program.

During Monday’s Hot Tea Radio Show U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told listeners that she’s “fighting for my political life,” called for a repeal of the separation of church and state, and said that tea partiers need to “literally start banging garbage lids together” to defeat health care reform.

A SurveyUSA poll released last week shows Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s approval rating at its lowest level in his career as governor. And that drop in support is happening as Pawlenty works to improve his standing among national Republicans in advance of a likely bid for president in 2012. The poll also showed a significant drop [...]