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Panel dismisses GOP complaint against progressive ad campaign

By Andy Birkey | 05.05.10 | 9:05 am

The Alliance for a Better Minnesota (ABM) was cleared in a complaint by the House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC) that an ABM ad earlier this year was false. The online ad criticized Reps. Tom Emmer, Marty Seifert and Kurt…

‘Wonderful’: GOP gubernatorial hopefuls support Arizona immigration law

By Andy Birkey | 04.28.10 | 3:19 pm

On Minnesota Public Radio’s Midday program on Wednesday, Republican candidates for governor, Tom Emmer and Marty Seifert both said they supported Arizona’s new immigration law that directs police to check people for proof of citizenship. In fact, Emmer said…

Emmer’s DUI record creates GOP fracas

By Andy Birkey | 04.22.10 | 8:26 am

A pair of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) citations ten years apart have come back to haunt the campaign of gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer (pictured at left). On Wednesday, the campaign of Marty Seifert distributed a letter by Republican…

PoliTweeps: On ‘grandmothering’ and ‘groveling’

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.14.10 | 11:10 am

In this edition, Republicans nitpick Democrats’ terminology and diplomacy, as the state party chair calls President Obama “Groveler in Chief” for bowing as he met China’s president, and a state legislator accuses Rep. Karen Clark of — gasp —…

PoliTweeps: Amid Palin excitement, a GOP tweet links Obama to Hitler

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.07.10 | 12:39 pm

As just about everyone in Minnesota politics is tweeting about today’s fundraiser and rally with Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann — or the Democrats’ counter-rally for working families in the Capitol rotunda — one politician, GOP candidate

Rasmussen polls gubernatorial race

By Andy Birkey | 03.12.10 | 8:00 am

Rasmussen Reports released some of the first polling numbers on Minnesota’s gubernatorial race on Thursday, finding that for the most part Minnesotans are undecided about who they like for governor. And with a diluted field for the DFL, no…

GOP’s Hann drops out of governor race

By Andy Birkey | 02.16.10 | 3:44 pm

Sen. David HannSen. David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, announced Tuesday that he’s bowing out of the governor’s race due to low support among activists and will campaign to keep his seat in the Minnesota Senate.

Rybak, Seifert headed for wins in caucus straw poll

By Andy Birkey | 02.03.10 | 3:30 pm

A straw poll results from Tuesday night’s political caucuses continue to trickle in, gubernatorial candidates RT Rybak and Margaret Anderson Kelliher are taking the top spot in the DFL, while Marty Seifert is garnering a large number of votes on the Republican side. Early results for the Independence Party show Tom Horner taking the lead, but voting for that straw poll will continue online until Feb. 28.

AM.MN: Guv hopefuls carless, sickened by sprawl, scared to bike

By Chris Steller | 01.26.10 | 8:15 am

am.mn logoLeslie Davis is the only candidate for governor who doesn’t own a car. It’s too dangerous for John Marty to bike 12 miles to work. Urban sprawl sickens and saddens Tom Rukavina. That’s what

AM.MN: Coleman coulda but woulda been ‘waste of public’s attention’

By Chris Steller | 01.19.10 | 8:34 am

am.mn logoBy not running for governor, Norm Coleman joked Monday, he’s “free at last, free at last.” Newspaper editorialists miss him already. Coleman’s exit “leaves a void,” says the Star Tribune, though rehashing his record for the…