The Minnesota DFL sent a letter to Minnesota television stations alleging that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s latest ad featuring “Jim the Election Guy” violated campaign ad laws by not having a disclaimer at the end of the ad…
In what appears to be a last-ditch effort, Barb Davis White, a Republican who lost to Rep. Keith Ellison by almost 50 points and who failed to get the endorsement of the Independence Party, filed as a DFLer on Tuesday.…
Gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza, a DFLer challenging Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the August primary, has selected Robyne Robinson to be his running mate. Robinson is best known as co-anchor of…
On the sixth ballot, House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher edged out Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak Saturday to become the DFL-endorsed candidate for governor. “DFLers, are you ready to make some history?” Kelliher asked the crowd at the party’s convention in Duluth: She’s the first woman gubernatorial candidate endorsed by a major party in Minnesota history.
Many politicians and special interest groups responded to the passing of health care reform in Congress Sunday night. Reactions fell along party and ideological lines.
The state Democratic party called on Republican candidate Allen Quist to apologize on Tuesday for statements he made at a Wabasha Republicans Christmas party that called the battle against Democrats bigger than the battle against terrorism. Quist told the Minnesota Independent over the weekend that his comments were taken out of context by liberal bloggers.
The national Democratic Party joined forces with two of its state organizations to tar Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty with a hard-right social “manifesto” — a 1989 master’s-degree thesis by Bob McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor in Virginia. As Pawlenty crossed the Old Dominion on Wednesday campaigning for McDonnell, Democrats held a teleconference with national reporters and Minnesota media.
This plan could backfire: By putting the spotlight on a State Fair vendor — Grandstand Donuts — that’s really an unadvertised fundraiser for DFL candidates, the Minnesota Republican Party could actually boost sales of Democratic donuts.
Five Democrats running for governor have agreed to abide by the party’s nominating process, reports Eric Black at MinnPost, but several others — including some well-funded presumptive front-runners — won’t make such a promise.
Two outside organizations and Norm Coleman’s re-election campaign illegally coordinated advertising that aided Coleman via a political consultant they all shared, the Minnesota DFL Party charged in a complaint to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).
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