Klobuchar has huge money lead over Senate challengers
By Andy Birkey |
10.21.11 | 1:00 am
Klobuchar took in almost $1 million in the last financial quarter.
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Joe Arwood to challenge Klobuchar in 2012
By Andy Birkey |
08.22.11 | 12:53 pm
St. Bonifacius city council member Joe Arwood announced on Monday that he will soon file paperwork to challenge Sen. Amy Klobuchar for the U.S. Senate.
Pawlenty will not challenge Klobuchar in 2012
By Andy Birkey |
08.18.11 | 6:45 am
Former governor and presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty will not challenge Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 2012, the Associated Press reports. Republican Party of Minnesota chair Tony Sutton had suggested that Pawlenty take on Klobuchar following his exit from the presidential race on Sunday.
Poll: Majority unlikely to back Klobuchar if she votes to cut Medicare, Social Security
By Paul Schmelzer |
05.24.11 | 10:21 am
Updated: Don’t mess with Medicare and Social Security: That’s the message that progressive groups are gleaning from a new poll of swing state voters. Commissioned by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), Democracy for America, MoveOn.org and Credo Action, the survey’s results show overwhelming opposition to cuts in both areas. In fact, in Minnesota, 72 percent of respondents were opposed to Social Security cuts, while a majority of Minnesotans polled said they were less likely to back Sen. Amy Klobuchar next election if she votes to reduce Social Security benefits.
Mark Ritchie wins a second term as Secretary of State
By Andy Birkey |
11.02.10 | 9:24 pm
Mark Ritchie, who oversaw the contentious recount in the 2008 U.S. Senate race between Sen. Al Franken and former Sen. Norm Coleman, will serve another term as Secretary of State. The Associated Press called the race for Ritchie shortly after 9 p.m. At that time, Ritchie led Republican challenger Dan Severson by a margin of 58 percent to 37 percent, with 15 percent of precincts reporting.
Sec. of State candidate Severson: There’s no such thing as separation of church and state
By Andy Birkey |
10.19.10 | 1:17 pm
Republican Secretary of State candidate Dan Severson has been hitting the religious right radio circuit over the past few weeks, doing interviews with headline-making figures like Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide and Pastor Brad Brandon of Berean Bible Baptist Church in Hastings. Severson told his interviewers that he believes the constitutional clause calling for the separation of church and state doesn’t exist, and that he feels there was “fraud, in a major way” in the U.S. Senate recount of 2008.
‘We got it right’: Ritchie TV ad touts Supreme Court praise for 2008 Senate recount
By Paul Schmelzer |
10.05.10 | 9:56 am
In advance of Saturday’s League of Women Voters/KSTP debate, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie will begin airing a television ad, his first of the 2010 campaign. It runs down his successes on the job, from increasing voting rates among military personnel by 300 percent to overseeing the recount and election challenge in Minnesota’s 2008 Senate race between Sen. Al Franken and former Sen. Norm Coleman. “We brought integrity and fairness to the closest election in 50 years,” Ritchie says in the ad, “and the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously agreed: We got it right.”
Sec. of State candidate ‘Doc’ Severson can’t use nickname on ballot
By Andy Birkey |
08.17.10 | 11:25 am
GOP candidate for Secretary of State Dan Severson will not be allowed to use the nickname “Doc” Severson on the ballot in November, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Severson hadn’t used the nickname — which he said stems…
Conservative paper’s partisan links back data requests, despite denials
By Jon Collins |
07.29.10 | 8:19 am
The Minnesota Republic, a conservative student newspaper that filed more than a dozen data requests from state DFLers, blurs line between journalism and politics.
At Day of Prayer, politicians advocate for God in government
By Andy Birkey |
05.07.10 | 10:53 am
About 100 people turned out Thursday for Minnesota’s National Day of Prayer event at the state Capitol, and many politicians were there to take part. Rep. Michele Bachmann sent a message by way of her husband, Marcus; a Secretary of State candidate said the military helps bring people to Christ; and an absent Gov. Tim Pawlenty gave his seal of approval for the event by way of an official proclamation.
