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Madia widens lead for 3rd District endorsement

By Jeff Fecke | 03.15.08 | 8:05 pm

PhotobucketAttorney Ashwin Madia picked up 32 of 49 delegates up for grabs Saturday, to widen his lead over State Sen. Terri Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka, in the race for the DFL’s Congressional endorsement in Minnesota’s 3rd District.

Madia now holds…

Edina mayor suspends congressional campaign

By Jeff Fecke | 03.13.08 | 2:31 pm

Edina Mayor Jim Hovland today suspended his campaign for the Democratic endorsement in the 3rd Congressional District.

Hovland, a recent convert to the DFL, had been trailing behind attorney Ashwin Madia and State Sen.…

Ashwin Madia: U.S. Has ‘Serious Problems That Need Serious People’

By Jeff Fecke | 10.31.07 | 8:11 pm

Ashwin Madia, a candidate to replace retiring Rep. Jim Ramstad, said in an interview with Minnesota Monitor that his service in Iraq had convinced him success in Iraq was unlikely unless the United States changes its strategy there.

Iraq Vet Announces for Third District Race

By Jeff Fecke | 10.23.07 | 12:57 pm

J. Ashwin Madia, a former Marine who served in Iraq, has announced his candidacy for U.S. Congress.  Madia will run for the seat currently held by Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., who is retiring at the end of this term.

Ramstad Retirement Leaves Partisan Gulf Wider than Ever

By Jeff Fecke | 09.17.07 | 1:41 pm

Jeff FeckeIt will come as no surprise to anyone who’s ever read anything I’ve written that I’m a liberal. As such, I generally vote DFL when given the opportunity.  But when I lived in the third district, I…

A Closer Look at MN 3

By Joe Bodell | 10.30.06 | 7:51 am

Minnesota’s Third District is a battleground on many levels.  Although the congressional race between 15-year incumbent Jim Ramstad and his DFL challenger Wendy Wilde is not considered competitive by many outside observers, the DFL does have reason to be optimistic…

MN-03: Interview with Wendy Wilde

By Joe Bodell | 10.09.06 | 10:54 am

This is the third interview I’ve conducted with a DFL congressional candidate (fourth if you include Gail Dorfman, who lost the CD5 DFL endorsement to Keith Ellison), but the candidate is in perhaps the most interesting position of any with…

Lacking in Attention

By Joe Bodell | 10.04.06 | 8:21 am

Some attention is warranted in Minnesota’s Third Congressional District. Not at the local level, at least for this post – although plenty of attention there is warranted. No, this one is actually at the Congressional level.

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