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Former Coleman staffer Wardere to challenge Kline

By Andy Birkey | 02.11.10 | 8:40 am

160px-john_kline_official_photo1Mahamoud 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…

Banker, Texas money behind Coleman’s new conservative think tank

By Andy Birkey | 02.08.10 | 9:15 am

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…

Coleman, Rove team up for new political group

By Andy Birkey | 02.01.10 | 8:43 am

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.

AM.MN: Guv hopefuls carless, sickened by sprawl, scared to bike

By Chris Steller | 01.26.10 | 8:15 am

am.mn logoLeslie 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

Horner sees gubernatorial role model in Ventura

By Chris Steller | 01.22.10 | 4:34 pm

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.

Plum Line: Something fishy with some Massachusetts ballots?

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.19.10 | 2:52 pm

voteAs 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…

Rare election year in Minnesota: No Pawlenty, Coleman on ballot

By Chris Steller | 01.19.10 | 1:33 pm

pawlentycoleman-tiny-headNorm 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…

Coleman: Brown win in Massachusetts would be ‘cosmic’

By Chris Steller | 01.19.10 | 10:43 am

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…

AM.MN: Coleman coulda but woulda been ‘waste of public’s attention’

By Chris Steller | 01.19.10 | 8:34 am

am.mn logoBy 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…

Coleman not running for governor

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.17.10 | 10:45 pm

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…