U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum’s failure to support legislation that would establish a universal, single-payer health-care system has drawn criticism from some liberal activists. But on Thursday, members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota showed up at McCollum’s St. Paul office to praise her efforts on the health-care front.
Barb Davis White is running an underdog campaign to unseat Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison on a platform of opposing same-sex marriage, abortion and immigration reform in a district with large numbers of LGBT residents, pro-choice voters and immigrants. As if those hurdles weren’t enough, the money just isn’t coming in for the Republican candidate.
Here are some highlights from Davis White’s report.
Chris Stewart, who on Tuesday won election to the Minneapolis School Board, yesterday admitted that he and some friends created a replica Tammy Lee for Congress Web site laden with racial epithets to lampoon Fifth District Congressman Martin Sabo’s support…
The Tammy Lee congressional campaign has traced what it calls a “racist, hate Web site
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Hutchinson begins his concession speech (he trails a deadlocked Hatch and Pawlenty, 45 to 7 percent) with an anecdote about a marathon runner finishing last in the Olympics. “Minnesota didn’t sent us here just to start this race,…
In a nasty piece of reverse race-baiting, an anonymous hacker has created a Tammy Lee look-alike site that lampoons Rep. Martin Sabo’s endorsement of the Independence Party’s Fifth District congressional candidate Tammy Lee. The site, http://www.trailblz.info/leetammy/hatesite/hatesite.htm, is clearly marked…
Fifth District Republican Congressional candidate Alan Fine, whose campaign is reeling from media reports of domestic abuse allegations against him in 1995, has hired Republican campaign strategist Joe Weber.
For weeks, local political observers have been anticipating one last, killing revelation that would finally and utterly sink Keith Ellison’s 5th District congressional campaign. Would it be some evidence of womanizing or a damning connection to a terrorist cell or…
With local and national political observers obsessing over the “radical” choice of Keith Ellison to carry the DFL banner into the November general election, which will decide who succeeds longtime U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo, Green Party endorsee Jay Pond wonders…
With the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo already experiencing some of the most polarizing rhetoric of this campaign season, one of the four endorsed candidates on the November ballot says it’s time for voters to seek the middle…
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