Rep. Chip Cravaack is a top target of Democrats and reproductive rights advocates in 2012 even if the Republican freshman has yet to draw a challenger. Cravaack is one of 14 vulnerable Republicans the Democrats hope to unseat in 2012, and EMILY’s List has announced that Cravaack is one of its top five targets.
While Margaret Anderson Kelliher has the distinction of being the first woman to get a major party endorsement for governor in state history, it’s the campaign of Matt Entenza that got the nod from the state…
Franken for Senate campaign manager Stephanie Schriock is headed to the top of the EMILY’s List organization with the exit of founder and president Ellen Malcolm. Schriock has Minnesota links beyond steering Al Franken…
Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner will take her two-year-plus campaign for governor through the DFL primary election. In a statement, she said, “my original plan to rely solely on the endorsement and convention process was too politically limiting.”
Minnesota’s newest Republicans in Congress, Michele Bachmann and Erik Paulsen, remain favored to win re-election this year, according to the Rothenberg Political Report. But state Sen. Tarryl Clark, one of two DFL women vying to challenge Bachmann,…
What is it about riding a bike under a baseball stadium that Tom Coburn and John McCain don’t understand? The senators decried federal stimulus spending to extend the Cedar Lake Bike Trail into downtown Minneapolis,…
The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, the religious right’s answer to the abortion rights group Emily’s list, has bought up time on Minnesota Christian radio stations to run ads attacking Al Franken. Interestingly, pro-life DFLer Rep. James Oberstar sits on the group’s advisory committee.
The ads say, in part (MP3):
In Minnesota, 39 innocent children are lost every day, 39 children every day. And what does comedian Al Franken want to do about it? Nothing. Franken says he supports abortion on demand. It’s no wonder radical pro-abortion groups have embraced Al Franken. They want to overturn the ban on gruesome partial birth abortions, force you to pay for abortions with your tax dollars, and allow young girls to get abortions without their parents consent. Al Franken and his allies are wrong. Call Al Franken right now at 612-344-2008 and tell him MN deserves leaders we can trust to protect life. tell him every life counts and this is no laughing matter.
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