Aaron Landry

Rep. Michele Bachmann violated House ethics rules when she directed auto dealers in an official email to contact the National Automotive Dealers Association (NADA), according to a complaint by three self-described “Minnesota bloggers.”

“When you win an election by 312 votes, there’s not a lot of effort that goes to waste,” Al Franken told Minneapolis Democrats Saturday. “We ran a very efficient campaign.” Franken nominated R.T. Rybak for endorsement for a third term as mayor at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s city convention.

A week after losing his KSTP AM show, Dave Thompson is throwing his hat in the ring to become state GOP chair. Chris Cillizza’s best-state-based blogs list came out at the Washington Post today, and Minnesota has more featured blogs than any other state. And a traffic milestone for MinnPost. All this, plus some naughty humor from Roger Ebert, inside.

UPDATED: Former Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign Web site is down, and the campaign explains that it was “inundated by tens of thousands of hits” by visitors seeking details on “Al Franken’s efforts to disenfranchise thousands of Minnesota voters.” But liberal blogger and IT manager Aaron Landry doesn’t buy it. His conclusion: “This stunt is a completely fabricated lie.”

Yesterday Aaron Landry at MnPublius noticed that Norm Coleman’s latest campaign ad, a testimonial from former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Sandy Keith, violates a law that requires a four-second authorization tag at the end of campaign commercials. Break it and you’re supposed to forfeit your statutory entitlement to the deeply discounted rates that politicians [...]