Brian Melendez

Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign and Northstar Leadership PAC have paid a company affiliated with the DCI Group just over $1.5 million for consulting services and rent since 2001.

The fees were paid to FLS Connect, one of the largest GOP fundraising firms in the country. The company’s principals are Republican operatives Tony Feather, Jeff Larson and [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann has pledged to no longer seek federal earmarks for projects in the Sixth Congressional District. The first-term Republican is part of a small group of legislators (which also includes Second District Rep. John Kline) seeking to reign in pork-barrel spending by swearing off earmarks.

So it’s curious that Bachmann, in a taxpayer-funded letter [...]

DFL Chairman Brian Melendez and Associate Chair Donna Cassutt have announced their support for Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential nomination race.

In a joint statement sent to party leaders, Melendez and Cassutt outlined their reasons for casting their superdelegate votes for Obama: 
We both have great confidence in, and respect and enthusiasm for, Senator Obama [...]

The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday on a vote of 265-159, with one “present” vote and eight congresspeople not voting. 

The bill reauthorizes and expands the SCHIP program above and beyond the increases President Bush had sought.  Experts are saying that Bush’s proposed $5 billion increase will [...]

Current Minnesota State Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Brian Melendez will be running again. Melendez said that he wants to make a few more changes but intends to keep some things that have worked well. “The biggest change that I have made, adding a permanent field director in each congressional district, is one that I still fully [...]