The Human Rights Campaign pledged Friday to donate $150,000 to political causes in Minnesota to offset a donation by retail giant Target to MN Forward, a political group backing GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. HRC will be donating $100,000 to…
The suicides of three gay students in the state’s largest school district over the past year has brought a new sense of urgency to advocates seeking stronger anti-bullying measures. Among Minnesota’s three major-party gubernatorial candidates, only one says he won’t sign anti-bullying legislation should it reach his desk. The GOP’s Tom Emmer says he’d wouldn’t sign the Safe Schools for All bill, the same measure Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed in 2009.
Target announced Wednesday that its second-quarter profits of $679 million represent a 14 percent increase compared to the same period last year. The report suggests to some that the chain hasn’t yet been dinged too badly…
The Minnesota Independent got props in a Keith Olbermann segment that posed a good question: Will Target’s MN Forward donation scare other companies from donating to political campaigns? Olbermann interviewed TPM’s Christina Bellantoni, who says…
Based in part on reporting by the Minnesota Independent, the Human Rights Campaign has launched a petition and open letter calling on big box stores Target and Best Buy to give $250,000 — the amount the Minnesota-headquartered…
LGBT and progressive groups are upset that Target Corp. made a donation to produce an ad backing Republican Tom Emmer for governor. Target gave $150,000 to MN Forward, a pro-business and largely Republican political action commitee that made an…
Violent crimes motivated by anti-LGBT sentiment climbed 64 percent in Minnesota, compared to only 7 percent nationwide.
The National Organization for Marriage, a group targeting Minnesota as a battleground over same-sex marriage this summer, is hosting an anti–gay marriage rally at Granite City Baptist Church in St. Cloud this month. The church and its pastor, Dennis Campbell, were at the center of controversy earlier this year over a newspaper ad it placed that claimed “Moslems [sic]… will destroy the constitution.”
OutFront Minnesota Action, the political action committee of the state’s largest LGBT advocacy organization, endorsed DFLer Margaret Anderson Kelliher for governor on Friday. The group interviewed the DFL candidates for governor as well as Independence Party candidate Tom Horner.…
Several politicians and groups have offered their reactions to a lawsuit filed yesterday to legalize same-sex marriage in Minnesota. Openly gay state Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, said the lawsuit is understandable but not the right route to go…
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