Republican Sen. Mike Parry is so far the only challenger to Rep. Tim Walz, a DFLer who first won election in 2008 and was re-elected in 2010.
In his short time as a legislator, Parry has had a penchant for getting into hot water, including posting comments on Twitter calling Pres. Barack Obama a “power hungry arrogant black man.”
Republican Randy Demmer released his first television ad of the campaign cycle criticizing DFL Rep. Tim Walz for supporting health care reform, cap-and-trade legislation and “trillion-dollar deficits.” The ad also includes an ominous photo of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi flanked by lightning bolts. The ad buy comes with the assistance and coordination of the National Republican Campaign Committee.
State Rep. Randy Demmer was endorsed by the First Congressional District GOP on Saturday, defeating Allen Quist after eight ballots. Demmer will now take on two-term DFL Rep.…
As the Republican’s April 17 convention to nominate Rep. Tim Walz’s opponent approaches, southern Minnesota Republicans are jockeying for position and throwing some barbs. Jim Hagedorn, who sparked controversy late last year when he scrubbed incendiary posts from…
GOP congressional candidate Allen Quist’s ideas about education are anything but conventional: a curriculum he wrote concludes that humans and dinosaurs likely co-existed, uses the Vikings to disprove global warming, and says God is the source of all law. But on Phyllis Schlafly’s radio show this weekend, Quist’s criticisms were reserved for liberals, who, he says, want to rewrite the Constitution “start to finish” and establish a “worldwide education system” that teaches, among other topics, “global warming nonsense.”
Republican candidates in Minnesota’s First Congressional District are lagging far behind their intended opponent, Rep. Tim Walz, in the money race. Allen Quist, Randy Demmer and Jim Hagedorn together raised $61,453. Rep. Tim Walz, the DFL incumbent, took…
Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, told attendees of the Wabasha County Republicans Christmas Party in mid-December that beating the “radical” liberals in Washington, D.C., is…
A quick look at developments in the U.S. Senate and House races in Minnesota:
Senate: Prepare for an air war: Just as DFLer Al Franken announced that he would hit the airwaves early in 2008, fellow DFLer Mike Ciresi beat…
News cycles are funny things — an item can be news right up until the point that something bigger comes along and makes it passe.
In today’s case, that Something Bigger is the Iowa Caucuses, set for this evening, which…
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