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U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign staff ejected a Minnesota Independent reporter from a press conference at campaign headquarters Wednesday afternoon. The MnIndy reporter made it as far as the inside of a small press conference room at a drab office park in St. Paul when a staffer asked who he represented and on that basis said the reporter would have to leave. In response to protests that MnIndy is a news outlet like others in the room, the staffer replied, “Right, and it’s funded by George Soros,” and escorted the reporter out. It’s the fourth time the senator’s campaign has denied access to local independent media at a media availability. Video (think “Blair Witch Project,” set in a boring office interior) after the jump. Spoiler alert: Norm’s door is extremely squeaky.

Todd Palin’s five-city, two-day campaign across northern Minnesota ended in the city of Moorhead in the northwestern part of the state, just across the Red River of the North from the bigger city of Fargo, N.D. There, Minnesota Independent reporter Paul Demko took in one last T-Pal stump speech at Scheel’s sporting goods store before interviewing people outside the store, some of whom had traveled two hours or more for the short, five-minute speech. Here are highlights, in a seven-minute video clip that touches on Abraham Lincoln, Saul Alinsky and Pythagoras.

The three Democrats running for the DFL endorsement in the Third Congressional District met last night for their final debate before Senate District conventions start electing delegates to the CD3 DFL convention.

With an exciting and hotly contested race for an open seat, the candidates and crowd did not disappoint.

On the issues, Terri Bonoff, Ashwin Madia [...]

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will hold an event in Minneapolis on Saturday, Feb. 2, in advance of the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday presidential caucuses.

The event will be held at the Target Center in Minneapolis at 1:30 p.m.  Tickets are free, but must be reserved through the Obama campaign. They can be reserved online at the [...]

We are drawing close to a point where we can know essentially what happened with regard to the Kennedy ad that the Klobuchar campaign was alerted to.  Here, as far as can be determined thus far, is the sequence of events.

Congressman John Murtha will visit Minnesota to Sunday, September 17th.  He will be meeting with Congressman Jim Oberstar (D-MN 8th) and 2nd CD DFL Candidate Coleen Rowley, who will be visiting U.S. military veterans and the public at the Rosemount American Legion Post No. 65 at noon.

Minnesota Monitor will be covering the meeting, including a [...]

An opinion piece in the Worthington Daily Globe brings up the matter of Auditor Anderson’s edit job on a public report:

Otto followed fired another salvo Tuesday. A press release issued by the DFL stated: “With no fanfare or public acknowledgement, State Auditor Patricia Anderson this week released a corrected version of her report on special [...]

The story I broke two days ago on MN Campaign Report has found its way into a DFL press release, as noted by Sara Reller.

Earlier this year, the Minnesota Department of Education amended a 2004 Total Revenue report to account for errors found by Rebecca Otto, DFL challenger for State Auditor.  Why did Auditor Anderson [...]

Remember this?  And this?  And then this, and it fizzled?  I have to admit, I was proud of the “RPM Otto-matic Press Releases” title.

State Auditor Pat Anderson has made a colossal blunder in her game of “She said, she said” with DFL challenger Rebecca Otto.  In a recent interview, Anderson said “Otto got it wrong [...]