Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher has picked John Gunyou as her gubernatorial running mate, MPR’s Polinaut and MNPublius are reporting. Gunyou is the city manager for Minnetonka and served as finance commissioner for Gov. Arne Carlson…
Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn is calling for the resignation of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a man with whom he shared a ticket but apparently little else except antipathy. According to Quinn, the two men haven’t spoken since Aug. 2, 2007. That was the day after the I-35W bridge fell in Minneapolis, an event that did not trigger estrangement between Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau, who was then also Transportation Commissioner. But the distant relationship between Blagojevich and his second-in-command does have at least one parallel in Minnesota, from the time of the last great statewide election recount in 1962.
This is the first of a series of Bill Spotlights, highlighting bills introduced in the 2007 legislative session.
The office of Lieutenant Governor would be eliminated under a proposed Constitutional Amendment introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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