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Pawlenty, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved headline health care repeal rally

By Andy Birkey | 04.22.10 | 2:08 pm

Gov. Tim Pawlenty will join conservative talk radio hosts Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt for “Undoing Obamacare: America Unplugged Tour” on April 28 at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall. With tickets ranging from $12.50 to $149, the event is sponsored

AM.MN: ‘Independent Republican’ Brown is new Eugene McCarthy

By Chris Steller | 01.20.10 | 8:45 am

am.mn logoScott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate election is making some old Minnesota political names new again. Brown calls himself an “Independent Republican” — the same name Minnesota’s GOP used for 20 years after Watergate.…

Equality is ‘not an American value’: Righty tub-thumpers stump for Minnesota Republicans

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.29.08 | 9:01 am

The so-called “Three Tenors” of talk radio — conservatives Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager — spoke before a crowd of 3,000 at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall in an event attended by Republican candidates Michele Bachmann, Norm Coleman and Erik Paulsen as well as Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

And though embattled Minnesota Republicans have been steering to the center of late, the event was full of right-wing red-meat rhetoric — like Prager’s declaration that “Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value.” Video of Prager’s talk inside.