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House committee passes anti–gay marriage amendment

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By Andy Birkey | 05.02.11 | 3:40 pm

Along party lines, the House Civil Law Committee passed a bill Monday to put a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage in Minnesota to one man and one woman before voters. In a hearing in which religious leaders far outnumbered legal testifiers, emotions ran high as the father of a gay soldier killed in Afghanistan appealed to veterans to oppose the amendment.

Push Polling in the West Metro… Already?

By Joe Bodell | 12.11.07 | 7:30 am

Do you want your tax dollars paying to educate the children of illegal immigrants?

That was the gist of a question an Edina resident fielded from a telephone poller this weekend. Such push-polling often has little to do with gathering …

Campaign Notebook: Busy Quarter So Far

By Joe Bodell | 10.02.07 | 7:19 pm

El Tinklenberg is in for the 6th Congressional District.  Melissa Hortman is out in the 3rd District.  Terri Bonoff may or may not already have raised a considerable amount of money in that race, and Republican Mayor Jim Hovland will…

Campaign Notebook: Who’s In and Out of CD3?

By Joe Bodell | 09.27.07 | 6:51 am

It’s been a busy week in the 3rd Congressional District.  Several candidates have decided not to run, several aren’t yet sure, and a couple are definitely in.

The roundup:

DFL state Sen. Terri BonoffLooks like she’s in.  Bonoff…

Campaign Notebook: Candidate Clusters, Cloture and (Habeas) Corpus

By Joe Bodell | 09.20.07 | 8:05 am

Wednesday night’s 3rd Congressional District DFL meeting did not disappoint. Several potential candidates for the DFL nod had a chance to speak, includingstate Sen. Terri Bonoff, Rep. Melissa Hortmann, Rep. Steve Simon (who would have to move out of his…