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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine sent a letter to Gov. Tim Pawlenty yesterday urging him to call on Norm Coleman to concede the U.S. Senate contest. “I urge you to use your influence to bring this process to an end by asking Norm Coleman to allow his neighbors and yours their full representation in [...]

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has Norm Coleman’s back. When asked by Hotline On Call recently whether he thinks Coleman should concede the U.S. Senate contest, Steele’s response was emphatic: “No, hell no.”

The Club for Growth likes Rep. Michele Bachmann — at least more than the rest of Minnesota’s Congressional delegation. The anti-tax advocacy group ranks Bachmann 37th on its latest assessment of House members, approving of her votes on 91 percent of the bills it deemed worthy of consideration. The Club for Growth’s rankings consider 22 [...]

Rep. Collin Peterson raised just over $100,000 in the first three months of this year and now has more than $400,000 in the bank. The 10-term Democrat was the last U.S. House member from Minnesota to file his first-quarter fund-raising figures with the Federal Elections Commission, but apparently made yesterday’s deadline. Peterson would’ve had a [...]

Protesters blame police for violence that broke out at the conclusion of last night’s protest parade organized by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. The group’s national organizer, Cheri Honkala, spoke to reporters this morning at Bushville, the temporary encampment set up by activists at 400 Western Ave. in St. Paul. “As a resident [...]

Sandy Colvin Roy, chair of the Minneapolis City Council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee, was rattling off the next agenda item at the committee’s meeting last week, when a familiar name brought her up short: Donald Fraser wanted to buy a piece of city-owned property alongside his house for one dollar. The excess public right-of-way [...]