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Where’s Al Franken? Kissing picketers at midnight in the cold Minneapolis rain

By Chris Steller | 04.05.09 | 11:58 pm

franken-smooch2“Where’s Al Franken?”
That’s what bloggers and reporters have been asking in recent days. Well, on Saturday at midnight he was greeting union picketers with a hug and a kiss in the sleet in downtown Minneapolis. Video (and…

Former DFL official tapped to run ‘Obama 2.0′

By Paul Demko | 01.23.09 | 4:50 pm

Mitch Stewart, who ran the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s coordinated campaign during the 2006 election cycle, has been named the director of Organizing for America. The fledgling organization, frequently dubbed “Obama 2.0,” is charged with continuing the grassroots organizing that was…