The Minnesota Service Employees International Union today announced plans to “dramatically increase” its donations to the Alliance for a Better Minnesota in order to run advertisements criticizing the state’s GOP-controlled legislature over the budget impasse that led to the government shutdown.
Reports filed with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board this week indicate that independent expenditure group Minnesota’s Future has shifted its behavior after a complaint was filed with the board last month by the Minnesota chapter of Common Cause. That complaint alleged that Minnesota’s Future had failed to detail the full extent of donor information required by law in their last finance report.
MN Forward — the independent expenditure organization that received heavy criticism for using donations from Target to run campaign ads supporting Republican Tom Emmer — has raked in $1.9 million so far this year. New campaign finance reports released Tuesday morning reveal that the group continues to receive the majority of its funds from local corporations, though high-profile public companies largely shied away from contributing to the group after the Target backlash.
Target’s gift of $150,000 to MN Forward, a Republican-run independent expenditure group that backs Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, has sparked outrage among progressives. The resulting boycotts, protests and bad press Target has endured may have prevented some companies from making such political contributions. But one Minnesota corporation is uncowed in giving to the group. According to new campaign disclosures, 3M has given $100,000 to MN Forward, significant public backlash has yet to materialize.
The Alliance for a Better Minnesota has released its fifth ad targeting Republican candidate for governor Tom Emmer. The ad, titled “Minnesota Cannot Afford Tom Emmer as Governor,” complains of Emmer’s ties to big business. According to the…
The Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund launched a new television ad today targeting Rep. Tom Emmer for missed votes in the Minnesota House this year. The group also started a website called missedvotes.com, which documents…
In today’s survey of Minnesota’s political Twittersphere, conservatives try to stain the Alliance for a Better Minnesota with a spoof Twitter account, a Wellstone Action organizer questions Michele…
As one of his former challengers for the Republican gubernatorial nomination predicted in April, Tom Emmer’s DWI record is now being used against the presumed GOP nominee. A new TV ad attacking Emmer for his DWI arrests…
Alliance for a Better Minnesota released an ad on Tuesday that targets GOP-endorsed candidate for governor Tom Emmer on statements he made suggesting tip-earners’ wages should be below minimum wage in Minnesota. Emmer backtracked a bit last week saying…
A progressive interest group is buying $500,000 worth of television ads to try to tie GOP-endorsed candidate for governor Tom Emmer to Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund says the ads will begin on…
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