Dan Powers, a former small business owner from Burnsville, announced his campaign for Congress on Monday in an open letter to Rep. John Kline, who he will challenge in 2012. “You represent the worst in politicians,” Powers wrote. Powers briefly ran against Kline in the 2010 election, but lost the DFL primary to former legislator Shelley Madore.
Former state legislator Shelley Madore defeated DFL-endorsed Dan Powers by a large margin Tuesday, 54 to 45 percent, and will take on Rep. John Kline in the November general election. Madore challenged Powers after losing the endorsement at the DFL…
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann — like Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) — has taken plenty of heat for language perceived as supportive of BP, the company behind the colossal oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But Second District Rep. John Kline has largely dodged criticism for endorsing similar language. Kline and Bachmann are both members of the Republican Study Committee, a group that officially has stated the escrow fund is the result of Obama’s “brand of Chicago-style shakedown politics.”
At party conventions this weekend, DFLers Jim Meffert and Dan Powers advanced to the general election to take on Reps. Erik Paulsen and John Kline, respectively. Meffert’s DFL opponent, Maureen Hackett, said she is backing the endorsed candidate and Powers’…
Mahamoud Wardere, a former staffer for Sen. Norm Coleman and Muslim immigrant from Somalia, is running on an anti-war platform in hopes of defeating Republican Rep. John Kline. Wardere is seeking the Republican endorsement and joins DFLers Dan Powers…
Dan Powers will seek the DFL endorsement to take on U.S. Rep John Kline in the Second Congressional District. The construction contractor and Burnsville resident argues that the four-term Republican incumbent is out of touch with his constituents.
U.S. Sen. Al Franken has it in for Brian Williams. That’s one conclusion to be drawn from Franken’s backing of a bill that would end tax breaks for pharmaceutical ads of the sort that pepper TV network…
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