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PoliTweeps: Dems take aim at Target’s backing of pro-Emmer TV spots

By Paul Schmelzer | 07.19.10 | 3:46 pm

Around the local Twitterverse, the buzz is about Target’s name appearing among funders behind the conservative group MN Forward’s new pro-Tom Emmer TV commercials. Plus, Rep. Michele Bachmann gets House approval for her

AM.MN: Pawlenty meets skeptics at Farmfest

By Chris Steller | 08.07.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoIn a Farmfest speech that was as much national as state-focused, Gov. Pawlenty urged ailing dairy farmers to increase demand by selling to China and India and promised to create a Minnesota Farmer Assistance Network (MFAN) for…