The medical device industry is a major backer of Rep. Erik Paulsen, with donations from industry Political Action Committees (PACs) and executives helping to make him the lead fundraiser in Minnesota’s House delegation.
The Minnesota Independent covered issues ranging from American Crystal Sugar’s negotiations with a locked out union to an anti-abortion activist planning to use campaign laws in a run against Rep. Keith Ellison to force Twin Cities media to run graphic anti-abortion ads.
Rep. Erik Paulsen saw a steep increase in donations from venture capitalists with an interest in health care after he testified to Congress in June that FDA processes should be streamlined, according to the New York Times.
Medical device companies and executives have repaid Paulsen’s “tireless support” of their industry with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.
In Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, where at least four DFL candidates are vying to take on Rep. Chip Cravaack, Tarryl Clark gathered up $228,000, more than Cravaack.
The free trade agreements passed with the partial support of many Democrats, although two members of the Minnesota delegation opposed all three agreements.
One activist shouted, “feel the rainbow,” as he tossed a box of glitter on Rove while he was signing his books at the Midwest Leadership Conference.
All Republican members of the Minnesota delegation and Democratic U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson support the constitutional amendment.
The plan could create just under 100,000 jobs in Minnesota, according to a White House analysis.
In his address to Congress Thursday night, President Obama outlined his “jobs plan” to jump start the American economy. Minnesota’s elected officials and interest groups weighed in on Obama’s speech, and the responses fell along party lines.
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