The ink was barely dry on last night’s election returns, which gave Rep. Keith Ellison a surprisingly easy DFL primary victory in the 5th District congressional race, when Republican Alan Fine’s campaign circulated a press release calling Ellison an “extremist…
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The former Union Bar has all the elements of a bad frat party. A balding, mustachioed fellow sprawls on the tattered couch at the edge of what was once a dance floor. An ancient organ and spackled…
In the final Fifth District congressional forum before Tuesday’s hotly contested DFL primary, five DFLers vying to succeed retiring U.S. Rep Martin Sabo were upstaged by the three endorsed candidates from the district’s “minor
If the Star Tribune’s endorsement of Mike Erlandson says anything about the race to succeed longtime Congressman Martin Sabo, it’s that a well-connected Beltway insider is preferable to any of the other choices in this third-rate field of DFLers.
It’s interesting to see the gradual transformation of 5th District congressional candidate Mike Erlandson from prohibitive favorite for the DFL endorsement to pandering Beltway insider scrambling to catch up with the campaign’s hottest political issue.
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