Norm Coleman

Mahamoud Wardere, a former staffer for Sen. Norm Coleman and Muslim immigrant from Somalia, is running on an anti-war platform in hopes of defeating Republican Rep. John Kline. Wardere is seeking the Republican endorsement and joins DFLers Dan Powers and Shelley Madore in looking to unseat Kline. Wardere’s name also popped up during the 2008 [...]

Former Sen. Norm Coleman has been hitting the trail to promote the new think tank he’s heading up. The American Action Network hopes to take advantage of the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning rules about political giving by corporations, Coleman told the New York Times. The group also has plenty of ties to — and [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, former Sen. Norm Coleman and Karl Rove are among big Republican names attached to a new political organizing group called the American Action Network.

Leslie Davis is the only candidate for governor who doesn’t own a car. It’s too dangerous for John Marty to bike 12 miles to work. Urban sprawl sickens and saddens Tom Rukavina. That’s what attendees heard Monday at the first gubernatorial forum on transportation, land use and the environment.
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

Tom Horner says Jesse Ventura’s first two years in office are a template for governing, should his Independence Party campaign match Ventura’s 1998 storming of the governor’s mansion. But before that can happen, says 2002 IP guv candidate Tim Penny, the party may have its first real endorsement battle.

As Chris Steller reported this morning, some Republicans, expecting a squeaker in today’s special election in Massachusetts, are already conjuring the Franken/Coleman contest to predict a “stolen election.” The Plum Line has early indications that perhaps there’s some merit to it — only on the other side of the aisle: Two voters say they were [...]

Norm Coleman’s decision to sit out this year’s race for governor makes 2010 unusual among recent years in Minnesota GOP electoral politics. For only the second time since 1990, a state election year will pass without Norm Coleman or Tim Pawlenty on the ballot.

Al Franken’s brief reign as Democrats’ 60th vote in the U.S. Senate will come to an abrupt end today if Republican Scott Brown wins Massachusetts’ special election — a potential result that former Sen. Norm Coleman calls “cosmic.” Indeed, Democrat Martha Coakley even coming close could mean a “stolen election” a la Franken’s recount victory [...]

By not running for governor, Norm Coleman joked Monday, he’s “free at last, free at last.” Newspaper editorialists miss him already. Coleman’s exit “leaves a void,” says the Star Tribune, though rehashing his record for the race would’ve been “a waste of the public’s attention.” It’s “too bad,” says the Grand Forks Herald, because moderates have [...]

Former Sen. Norm Coleman quashed rumors of recent days that he’d be announcing a bid for Minnesota’s governorship, telling KSTP TV Sunday that he won’t be seeking the office this year. “I love Minnesota and I love public service,” he said in a statement posted on Facebook, “but this is not the right time for [...]