Allen Quist mulling challenge to Tim Walz
By Andy Birkey |
11.03.11 | 1:00 am
In his legislative career, Quist was notorious for his emphasis on social and religious issues.
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EdWatch, group that helped launch Bachmann’s career, closes after 12 years
By Andy Birkey |
12.28.10 | 10:51 am
Edwatch, a controversial conservative education watchdog group, announced that its operations will close at the end of the year. Founded as the Maple River Education Coalition in the late 1990s, the group was an incubator for the political career of Rep. Michele Bachmann and drew the ire of elected officials in at least three political parties. The group was pro-gun, anti-homosexuality and opposed to federal intervention in local education.
Independent expenditure groups form as campaign season heats up
By Andy Birkey |
09.06.10 | 8:21 am
As the campaign season continues to heat up, a new round of independent expenditure committees are up and running in Minnesota. The U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United and a subsequent Minnesota Supreme Court decision have opened the floodgates for these groups to prop up or oppose candidates, and Minnesota now has twelve such groups, seven of which have formed in the last three months. Two of those independent expenditure groups have registered with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board within the last week — and their purposes could not be more different.
Hagedorn: Quist too close to Bachmann, too controversial
By Andy Birkey |
03.31.10 | 9:00 am
As the Republican’s April 17 convention to nominate Rep. Tim Walz’s opponent approaches, southern Minnesota Republicans are jockeying for position and throwing some barbs. Jim Hagedorn, who sparked controversy late last year when he scrubbed incendiary posts from…
Quist: Liberals seek ‘worldwide education system’ to push ‘left-wing propaganda’
By Andy Birkey |
03.30.10 | 1:15 pm
GOP congressional candidate Allen Quist’s ideas about education are anything but conventional: a curriculum he wrote concludes that humans and dinosaurs likely co-existed, uses the Vikings to disprove global warming, and says God is the source of all law. But on Phyllis Schlafly’s radio show this weekend, Quist’s criticisms were reserved for liberals, who, he says, want to rewrite the Constitution “start to finish” and establish a “worldwide education system” that teaches, among other topics, “global warming nonsense.”
Hagedorn: Walz a ‘plague’ and liberals ‘carpet bombing’ America
By Andy Birkey |
03.12.10 | 8:15 am
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
National Journal: Walz a centrist, McCollum among House’s ‘most liberal’
By Paul Schmelzer |
03.01.10 | 1:02 pm
National Journal has released its ranking of Congress “members at the far ends and the ideological center of the House of Representatives” — and at the far end only one Minnesotan makes the cut. Surprise: it’s not Michele Bachmann.
Emmer, Quist get top marks from anti-immigrant group
By Andy Birkey |
02.22.10 | 11:25 am
Gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer and congressional candidate Allen Quist are among candidates who earned top marks from the anti-immigrant group Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform (Minn-SIR). Minn-SIR got its start as the Minnesota Minutemen, a group the Southern Poverty Law…
Bachmann: Those who criticize gov’t to be denied health care
By Andy Birkey |
02.02.10 | 3:01 pm
At an event with First Congressional District candidate Allen Quist on Monday, Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that it’s possible that critics of health care reform could get on a list that would single them out for denial of health…
Republicans post anemic fundraising numbers in the First
By Andy Birkey |
02.02.10 | 8:07 am
Republican candidates in Minnesota’s First Congressional District are lagging far behind their intended opponent, Rep. Tim Walz, in the money race. Allen Quist, Randy Demmer and Jim Hagedorn together raised $61,453. Rep. Tim Walz, the DFL incumbent, took…
