The Republican Governors Association (RGA) donated another $400,000 to Minnesota’s Future LLC on September 21, bringing the total amount of RGA contributions to the group this election cycle at $830,000, according to an IRS quarterly report released Friday.
Minnesota’s Future, a relatively new independent expenditure committee run by Republican activist Jeff Larson, released a television ad targeting DFL candidate for governor Mark Dayton on Thursday. Titled “Worst,” the ad focuses on Dayton’s record in the U.S. Senate…
Burberry, Britain’s once-staid fashion house, can’t help it if Sarah Palin wears their trademark plaid scarves. “[T]he conspicuousness of the pattern also means that the company has little control over how it is seen, or on whom,”…
Two outside organizations and Norm Coleman’s re-election campaign illegally coordinated advertising that aided Coleman via a political consultant they all shared, the Minnesota DFL Party charged in a complaint to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).
No, they didn’t, the…
A clothes-shopping spree that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin started in Minnesota didn’t break the law, in the opinion of the Federal Election Commission, even though it was paid for by the GOP.
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.
Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign is illegally collaborating with two independent organizations that have been running advertisements on his behalf, according to a complaint filed by the state Democratic Party today with the Federal Election Commission.
The U.S. Chamber…
Here’s a behind-the-scenes postscript about the lengths to which the planners of the Republican National Convention went to ensure the appearance of a discord-free GOP: They tried to scuttle Ron Paul’s counter-convention across the river in Minneapolis, and the next night’s Rage Against the Machine concert as well.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has awarded Sen. Norm Coleman a “dishonorable mention” on its annual list of the country’s most corrupt legislators. The watchdog group cites Coleman’s seemingly sweetheart deal on a Capitol Hill…
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