Michael Brodkorb

The Republican Party of Minnesota released a new radio ad today targeting U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson over recent comments explaining why he doesn’t hold town meetings. The ad, titled “Out of Touch,” will run on radio stations in the Seventh Congressional District.

The Republican Party of Minnesota has released a new website and radio ad targeting Secretary of State Mark Ritchie during the National Civic Summit, Ritchie’s retooling of the annual meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State, held in Minneapolis this week.
Through its new site, RitchieFacts.com, the GOP claims Ritchie is a partisan, that [...]

The former head of a Minneapolis neighborhood group is suing a local blogger over online words he says cost him a job. Jerry Moore, who used to run the Jordan Area Community Council (JACC), contends that he lost employment with the University of Minnesota because John Hoff and six others defamed him via slanted posts [...]

“It takes bulldog courage to overcome obstacles,” Norm Coleman told Minnesota Republicans Saturday. “Bite hard and don’t let go.” That could be the motto for his ongoing legal challenge to results showing Democrat Al Franken defeated him in last year’s race for the U.S. Senate. “It’s not going to take a miracle for me to [...]

A group of online media outlets — including Checks & Balances, Radio Free Nation, the Minnesota Independent, The UpTake, Twin Cities Daily Planet and others — have been pressing the Minnesota House of Representatives to change rules that limit who gets to cover their proceedings. Now that the Sergeant-at-Arms proposed (now-ditched) restrictions on all media [...]

After state GOP chair Ron Carey aped party blogger Michael Brodkorb’s terminology for The UpTake as a “partisan, liberal” blog, the citizen journalism outfit issued a press release correcting an error Carey made — and thanked him for tuning into the same video feeds of Minnesota recount proceedings that media outlets like Fox News and [...]

What should we make of Minnesota Democrats Exposed blogger Michael Brodkorb’s attack on Secretary of State Mark Ritchie for including a benign mention of The UpTake’s live video feeds of the Canvassing Board’s recent meetings? A tempest in a teapot? An insider media squabble? Try this on for size: Maybe it’s part of a GOP plan to smear the recount process that seems increasingly likely to result in Republican Sen. Norm Coleman’s defeat.

Al Franken may have written for and performed on “Saturday Night Live!” but his campaign has apparently pulled the plug on allowing live video from its now-daily press conferences about Minnesota’s statewide recount. For the last two days, the independent media outlet The Uptake has made video of the press events available on the Web [...]

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The Associated Press profiles Republican blogger Michael Brodkorb today, praising his two “direct hits” on Al Franken over the Democratic senate candidate’s tax problems. The piece by Patrick Condon says that Brodkorb “shrugs off Democrats’ claims that he’s a Republican operative by saying he’s never been paid to blog.” The Minnesota [...]

The St. Paul Pioneer Press sought out a Republican party official and blogger as a voice against a bill working its way through the state legislature.  But in quoting the official, the Pioneer Press failed to note that his blog has included questionable and potentially insensitive statements regarding the bill in question.

The bill, House File [...]