Minnesota Independent

With Reed out, focus in Clark/Bachmann race shifts to records, fundraising

By Patrick Caldwell | 06.07.10 | 2:16 pm

Following Dr. Maureen Reed’s decision not to run in the DFL primary, the race for the 6th Congressional District is down to two major-party candidates: incumbent Rep. Michele Bachmann and state Sen. Tarryl Clark. As Clark tries to catch up to Bachmann in fundraising, the House race, already the country’s fourth most expensive, will increasingly focus on the candidates’ records. But while Bachmann’s lack of a legislative progress opens her to criticism, Clark’s tenure as assistant majority leader in the state Senate provides plenty of ammunition for her opponent.

Reed drops out of race against Bachmann

By Andy Birkey | 06.07.10 | 8:37 am

Dr. Maureen Reed announced Sunday that she’s suspending her campaign for the DFL primary in August. Sen. Tarryl Clark will be the DFL challenger to Rep. Michele Bachmann along with Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson and independent Aubrey Immelman. In…

Anderson wins IP endorsement to run against Bachmann

By Andy Birkey | 04.19.10 | 7:37 am

Bob Anderson will be the Independence Party–endorsed candidate to take on Rep. Michele Bachmann in November. Anderson won the endorsement over St. John’s University professor Aubrey Immelman, who withdrew his nomination at the endorsing convention on Saturday.

Immelman to challenge Anderson for 6th District Independence Party endorsement

By Andy Birkey | 04.16.10 | 1:45 pm

Aubrey Immelman, a political psychology professor at St. John’s University, says he’ll challenge Bob Anderson for the Independence Party endorsement to take on Rep. Michele Bachmann in November. Immelman…

Anderson to battle Bachmann… if he lands IP endorsement

By Andy Birkey | 04.05.10 | 3:53 pm

Bob Anderson, the independent candidate who in 2006 drew votes from Rep. Michele Bachmann and El Tinklenberg, her DFL-Independence Party opposition, says if he gets the Independence party endorsement he will enter the race again this cycle.

‘Encouraged’ by IP endorsement vote, Anderson undecided about battling Bachmann

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.24.09 | 10:40 am

One obstacle keeping Bob Anderson from running against Rep. Michele Bachmann next year was a pending vote by the Independence Party over cross-endorsements. Last election, the party endorsed the DFL’s Elwyn Tinklenberg, but Anderson ran anyway, getting 10 percent of the vote in a race won by Bachmann by a 3-percent margin. After the IP voted to drop cross-endorsements Saturday, Anderson is “encouraged,” but still undecided about running.

‘Right-leaning conservative’ mulls Bachmann rematch

By Paul Schmelzer | 07.24.09 | 10:43 am

Things are heating up in the race to unseat 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann: Democrat Maureen Reed raised $230,000 in the two months following her announcement to run; past challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg says he’ll be in the Democratic primary whether he gets the DFL nod or not; and state Sen. Tarryl Clark is expected to announce her candidacy soon. Another twist: Third-party candidate Bob Anderson — who garnered 10 percent of the vote in the 2008 election — is seriously considering running again.

Clark stays mum as field in Bachmann’s district takes shape

By Paul Demko | 07.09.09 | 12:02 pm

Tarryl Clark has been rumored to be eyeing either the governor’s race or a challenge to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in the Sixth Congressional District, but she has remained cagey about her ambitions. The local DFL chair says Clark “is actively considering getting into the Sixth Congressional District race.”

Can we please give the Senate seat to the ‘Crazy McCain Lady’?

By Paul Demko | 01.01.09 | 7:00 am

Thanks for the memories. Now please go away. Yes, we’re talking about you, Rudy Giuliani. And you, Wolf Blitzer. We no longer wish to be a swing state. Henceforth the residents of the state of Minnesota promise to vote reliably Democratic. Or Republican. It doesn’t much matter which — just as long as you people promise to stop showing up in our little slice of the frozen tundra seeking to feel our pain. But to memorialize the horrors visited upon us during the (still ongoing) campaign season, we offer — in honor of our favorite member of the Statewide General Election Canvassing Board — the G. Barry Anderson Awards.

Who’s on first? With recount’s Andersons and Magnusons, it’s ‘Who’s on the bench?’

By Chris Steller | 12.23.08 | 1:11 pm

You can’t tell the players in the Minnesota Senate recount drama with a scorecard — even a Politico blog that’s called The Scoreboard misattributed a quote (since corrected) on Monday from Marc Elias, a lawyer for Al Franken, as coming from Fritz Knaak, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s recount attorney. Minnesota media mostly keep those two straight, but even locals find the profusion of Scandinavian surnames in the various recount venues vexing. More including the Anderson Effect and a Sven-and-Ole routine, after the jump.