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Walz Challengers Get Started on Fundraising

By Leigh Pomeroy | 04.05.07 | 9:12 pm

The Rochester Post-Bulletin reported Tuesday that the declared Republican challengers for the U.S. House seat in the 1st District in southern Minnesota are already off and running in the race to raise campaign cash. According to…

Third Challenger Steps Into Ring Against Walz

By Leigh Pomeroy | 03.13.07 | 1:43 pm

According to the Rochester Post-Bulletin, Randy Demmer, a four-year member of the Minnesota House, has indicated he will run for Congress in Minnesota’s 1st District. Two other…

Tim Walz issues first e-newsletter

By Leigh Pomeroy | 03.07.07 | 8:10 pm

While some members of Congress avoid the spotlight unless it’s election time, others seem to relish it. It appears that novice Congressman Tim Walz in Minnesota’s 1st District is already charting the former course, which…

End of the Line or Back to the Drawing Board for DM&E Coal Trains?

By Leigh Pomeroy | 03.04.07 | 11:34 am

There is a broader solution. With proper leadership we will find it.

Now that the Federal Railroad Administration has told the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern railroad that it is not going to give it the hoped-for $2.3 billion…

My Sunday Column … a Day Late

By Leigh Pomeroy | 02.19.07 | 4:19 pm

Leigh Pomeroy
Minnesota Monitor is ever evolving, and one new wrinkle we’ve added is a weekly column by each of our writers. My day is Sunday, although…

Walz Makes the DCCC’s “Seats to Save” List

By Leigh Pomeroy | 02.16.07 | 6:35 pm

Rep. Tim Walz of Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District has been designated as one of 29 “frontline” seats for 2008 by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to a story by CQPolitics.com. Walz scored a stunning…

Dick Day Joins Foray in Minnesota’s 1st

By Leigh Pomeroy | 02.08.07 | 7:15 pm

State Sen. Dick Day (R-Owatonna) joined Lake Crystal school board member Mark Meyer today as the second Republican to declare his candidacy for Congress to represent Minnesota’s 1st District. More at Minnesota Public Radio.

How Pwonkies Make Themselves Sound Like They Know It All: Ignore History

By Leigh Pomeroy | 02.05.07 | 6:10 pm

Politicians aren’t the only folks who like to change history in order to justify what they say in the present. Pwonkies (political wonks) are also guilty. Here’s an example from Stuart Rothenberg posted Feb. 5 on RealClearPolitics (italics are mine):…

Tim Walz’s secret weapon

By Leigh Pomeroy | 01.01.07 | 8:20 pm

An interview with Campaign Manager Kerry Greeley

by Leigh Pomeroy

Though Tim Walz had been campaigning for Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District (MN1) seat since early 2005, he didn’t hire an official campaign manager till March of 2006, when…

CQ Politics on Walz: Getting it “somewhat” right

By Leigh Pomeroy | 12.21.06 | 4:55 pm

An article today by Matthew Spieler on CQPolitics.com (“The ‘Everyman’ Image of Rep.-elect Walz“) is a good example of how the national media still doesn’t quite know how to deal with the Tim Walz victory, just like they didn’t…