Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s announced plans to axe state refunds for political contributions of $50 or less has set off an email stampede as candidates urge donors to give before the program dies July 1.
“Rybak won!” It’s a cry that didn’t emanate far beyond the walls of Minneapolis’ Washburn High School, where on Saturday city DFL delegates endorsed the re-election of Mayor R.T. Rybak. But versions of that cry rang across Europe on…
“When you win an election by 312 votes, there’s not a lot of effort that goes to waste,” Al Franken told Minneapolis Democrats Saturday. “We ran a very efficient campaign.” Franken nominated R.T. Rybak for endorsement for a third term as mayor at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s city convention.
Even as Democratic Party organizations roll out videos and radio ads urging Norm Coleman to give up his claim on his old U.S. Senate seat, the head of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party made this pronouncement about the Republican’s election-contest appeal…
Bob Miller announced this afternoon that he’s dropping out of the race for Minneapolis mayor — for now. Word that Miller, who heads the city’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program, would “suspend” his challenge to Mayor R.T. Rybak for the…
The one Minneapolis City Council seat in the clutches of the Green Party is likely to stay that way, unless a credible DFL candidate comes forward to take the place of Charles Carlson, the newly departed — and truly incredible — challenger to incumbent Cam Gordon. The Green stalwart, who won by 141 votes in 2005 after losing by only 106 votes in 2001, tells the Minnesota Independent he plans to campaign for re-election as usual but won’t be surprised if the DFL decides to endorse no one to oppose him.
Norm Coleman went out for a steak dinner in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5 after the State Canvassing Board declared that his challenger, Al Franken, had received 225 more votes in the recount of Minnesota’s Senate election. But it turns…
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak announced today he is running for re-election. The announcement took the form of a mayoral message on Twitter directing people to a video on YouTube, which in turn directed viewers to his new campaign Web site,…
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party charged former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and a GOP lawyers’ group with violating Federal Election Campaign laws as they raise money for a post-recount lawsuit challenging the results of the Senate recount.
Minnesota’s DFL members of Congress are unified in opposition to statements made by Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann questioning whether liberal members of Congress support America. Reps. Betty McCollum, James Oberstar, Keith Ellison, Collin Peterson and Tim Walz, and Sen. Amy…
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