Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, won the GOP endorsement for governor on Friday afternoon, after Rep. Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, conceded after the second ballot. Emmer will take on the winner between the…
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.
DFL activists gathered in Blaine on Saturday to select the candidate they want to square off against Rep. Michele Bachmann in November. Sen. Tarryl Clark won the endorsement over Dr. Maureen Reed on the first ballot with 63 percent…
Newspaper election endorsements are out — some packing a wallop as bracing as a stiff winter wind in October, others playing it as safe as pre-Halloween trick-or-treating at a local strip mall. Here’s a roundup of candidate preferences for the U.S. Senate and House that Minnesota papers have so far put in print. The recession sees the major dailies’ editorialists cutting back on costly opinions — either picking favorites without naming the issues they like them for, as both the PiPress and Star Tribune have done in the U.S. Senate race, or beating a wholesale retreat from making a pick at all, as the St. Paul Pioneer Press has done in the presidential contest.
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is confident that its state wide endorsed candidates for office will win the primary on September 12th.
“This meeting is subject to cancellation without further notice. If every endorsed candidate in a statewide primary wins the…
The Minnesota State Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party has had years of trouble connecting with it’s local party units, but things are slowly turning around with Party Chair Brian Melendez. Melendez was elected to be Chair in 2005 stepping in after Mike Erlandson…
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