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‘We got it right’: Ritchie TV ad touts Supreme Court praise for 2008 Senate recount

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.05.10 | 9:56 am

In advance of Saturday’s League of Women Voters/KSTP debate, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie will begin airing a television ad, his first of the 2010 campaign. It runs down his successes on the job, from increasing voting rates among military personnel by 300 percent to overseeing the recount and election challenge in Minnesota’s 2008 Senate race between Sen. Al Franken and former Sen. Norm Coleman. “We brought integrity and fairness to the closest election in 50 years,” Ritchie says in the ad, “and the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously agreed: We got it right.”

Shepard brings tweaked Eurythmics hit to unconventional campaign

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.08.10 | 1:20 pm

For Jack Shepard, a Minnesotan who fled the state for Italy following accusations of arson and other crimes, it’s a “sweet dream,” indeed: ousting 4th Congressional District candidate Teresa Collett in the Aug. 10 GOP primary. Shepard continued…

Live video: Bachmann/Palin rally

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.07.10 | 2:00 pm

The Star Tribune is livestreaming today’s rally featuring Sarah Palin, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and others. Watch it after the jump:

Dayton’s new fave movie? C-SPAN clip has McCain cutting him off

By Chris Steller | 12.22.09 | 4:41 pm

Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton might want to reconsider whether “Glory” is his favorite motion picture. Newly salvaged C-SPAN footage from 2002 showing him getting cut off by John McCain on the Senate floor has given Dayton free…

With speaking gigs like Norm Coleman’s, you’d be polling too

By Chris Steller | 12.22.09 | 3:22 pm

If Norm Coleman is not doing polling to probe his prospects for the 2010 Minnesota governor’s race — as one report today says he is, despite his denial — then new evidence on YouTube suggests he should be.

Video: Franken shuts down Lieberman on health care reform

By Chris Steller | 12.17.09 | 4:23 pm

Al Franken cut off Joe Lieberman’s remarks on health care reform on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday. The Connecticut independent had reached the end of his allotted 10 minutes when Franken, presiding over the Senate,…

Bachmann’s ‘temerity’ suggests ‘Light Brigade’ wasn’t a misfire

By Chris Steller | 12.16.09 | 11:40 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent choice of words suggests she knew what she saying when she invoked the “sadly ludicrous” Crimean War episode from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” at a Capitol Hill anti-health care reform rally.

MnIndy video: Palin fans tote books, eagle photos to Mall of America event

By Chris Steller | 12.07.09 | 12:40 pm

Hundreds of Minnesotans braved Alaskan temperatures before dawn Monday outside the Mall of America to wait for Sarah Palin to sign their copies of her book, “Going Rogue.” They warmed up when talking about Palin with the Minnesota Independent.

Romney: Pawlenty wrong to slam Massachusetts on health care

By Chris Steller | 12.07.09 | 12:00 pm

Former Massachuetts Gov. Mitt Romney pushed back Sunday against Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s attacks on the Bay State’s health care system.

Oberstar makes his voice heard, endorsing Clark to beat Bachmann

By Chris Steller | 12.02.09 | 4:14 pm

U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar endorsed state Sen. Tarryl Clark today as the DFL’s best bet to beat Rep. Michele Bachmann next year. The elder statesman of the Minnesota congressional delegation said in September that Bachmann was “hearing…