Bad news for fish and Michele Bachmann: Norm Coleman says he will “do a lot of fishing” while taking another nine or ten months to decide whether to run for governor, and state Sen. Tarryl Clark has checked…
Things are heating up in the race to unseat 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann: Democrat Maureen Reed raised $230,000 in the two months following her announcement to run; past challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg says he’ll be in the Democratic primary whether he gets the DFL nod or not; and state Sen. Tarryl Clark is expected to announce her candidacy soon. Another twist: Third-party candidate Bob Anderson — who garnered 10 percent of the vote in the 2008 election — is seriously considering running again.
Rep. Michele Bachmann raised $285,125 in the second quarter of 2009, according to new Federal Election Commission filings. The second-term Republican had almost $400,000 in the bank at the end of June. By contrast, Rep. Betty McCollum reported raising less…
Tarryl Clark has been rumored to be eyeing either the governor’s race or a challenge to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in the Sixth Congressional District, but she has remained cagey about her ambitions. The local DFL chair says Clark “is actively considering getting into the Sixth Congressional District race.”
Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District is one of two 2010 House races that analysts view as competitive in the state. But whether the district attracts significant attention — and money — from Democrats will probably hinge on how strong a challenger emerges.
Everyone has an opinion about Michele Bachmann — whether tinted by contempt or admiration. But Maureen Reed, the Grant physician who hopes to unseat Bachmann, doesn’t even mention the incumbent in explaining why she’s running for the Sixth Congressional District seat.
There will be a battle to determine who will get the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nod to take on Rep. Michele Bachmann in 2010. Nancy Schumaker, chair of the Sixth Congressional District DFL, confirms that both Elwyn Tinklenberg and Maureen Reed have told local party activists that they intend to seek the endorsement.
Maureen Reed, a former Independence Party candidate for Lt. Governor, is going to challenge Rep. Michele Bachmann, according to the blog Liberal in the Land of Conservative. In 2006 she…
Democrats are once again salivating at the prospect of taking on Rep. Michele Bachmann in 2010. But the flamboyant legislator has proven a redoubtable opponent in a congressional district that skews heavily Republican.
Thanks for the memories. Now please go away. Yes, we’re talking about you, Rudy Giuliani. And you, Wolf Blitzer. We no longer wish to be a swing state. Henceforth the residents of the state of Minnesota promise to vote reliably Democratic. Or Republican. It doesn’t much matter which — just as long as you people promise to stop showing up in our little slice of the frozen tundra seeking to feel our pain. But to memorialize the horrors visited upon us during the (still ongoing) campaign season, we offer — in honor of our favorite member of the Statewide General Election Canvassing Board — the G. Barry Anderson Awards.
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