The Minnesota GOP is charging the DFL with Catholic bashing over a campaign postcard showing a religious leader wearing a clerical collar and a button that reads “Ignore the poor.” While the GOP is calling the piece “anti-Catholic,” it’s targeting Dan Hall, an evangelical pastor and Republican candidate for the state Senate in Bloomington and Burnsville.
DFL chair Brian Melendez questioned the finances of Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer at a press conference on Thursday. According to public documents, Emmer has taken out seven separate mortgages on his Delano home for a total value of $1.6 million. Melendez said the DFL is raising the issue because Emmer frequently uses the phrase “live within your means” on the campaign trail.
Rep. Michele Bachmann is taking heat from her opponents over a statement saying she would like to end two major social programs. “But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off” Social Security and Medicare, Bachmann said…
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s spokesperson David Dziok told MinnPost on Tuesday that the congresswoman doesn’t share televangelist Pat Robertson’s view that Haiti’s problems stem from a pact the nation made with the devil. Robertson has sung Bachmann’s praises in…
The state Democratic party called on Republican candidate Allen Quist to apologize on Tuesday for statements he made at a Wabasha Republicans Christmas party that called the battle against Democrats bigger than the battle against terrorism. Quist told the Minnesota Independent over the weekend that his comments were taken out of context by liberal bloggers.
From Allen Quist to Mike Parry, several conservative candidates in Minnesota have recently made (or have had revealed) statements extreme enough to earn terms of rebuke like “intolerant,” “appalling,” and “poisonous.” A partisan critic and a political scientist say such remarks show the candidates are not “of” their party’s rank and file and “erode [the candidates'] ability to speak to the voting middle.”
Gov. Tim Pawlenty believes Minnesota has a “binge” spending problem. In order to fix this addiction, he’s proposing a rather radical solution: an amendment to the state’s constitution that would strictly limit future expenditures. Democrats say it’s simply a stunt to bolster Pawlenty’s presidential ambitions.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be in Newport Beach, California, this evening for the Western Conservative Political Action Conference. At a “private VIP” reception this evening he’ll be sharing the dais with…
Hundreds of Democrats gathered on the front lawn of the Capitol today for a noon-time rally to celebrate Al Franken’s long-awaited victory in the U.S. Senate contest. He’s expected to visit the Iron Range this weekend, before heading to Washington to take his post. “It was close — but we won,” Franken told the crowd.
Sen.-elect Al Franken will host a rally at the state Capitol on Wednesday to celebrate his victory in the U.S. Senate contest. The event will run from noon to 1 p.m.…
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