Barack Obama’s White House would rather not fight or switch when it comes to making nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court. So it wouldn’t be surprising if Sonia Sotomayor’s clean slate on political campaign contributions weighed in…
The Republican ticket of Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau has twice emerged from three-way races victorious by plurality. Now Pawlenty is thinking about seeking a third term in 2010. If he goes for it, he’ll have a past failure to thank for the opportunity: In the 1990s, he and Molnau sought to enshrine term limits on governors and lieutenant governors in the Minnesota Constitution.
Like other Minnesota pols, Norm Coleman likes to invoke the memory of the late Hubert H. Humphrey, whose Senate seat the Republican held until last month (and which he is now trying to regain in court). The latest example came in a newspaper column opposing the Senate stimulus bill in which Coleman claimed to quote Humphrey, deftly identifying himself with the legendary leader of Minnesota’s DFL Party. But signs are scant that Humphrey spoke those words — unless Coleman meant the other Hubert Humphrey?
Last week, we posted video of Al Franken’s sharp response to Ann Coulter at the 2004 Connecticut Forum. After the rightwing pundit said if she could go back in time as a historical figure she’d be FDR to…
We take a moment to note that Norm Coleman’s term as Republican U.S. senator from Minnesota — which began in early 2003, just weeks after the untimely death of the man he challenged, U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone —…
Election Day always follows hard on Oct. 31, so political ads regularly riff on and rip off Halloween, erecting gratuitous gravestones or mining images from scenes in gory horror flicks. In a current anti-union Web ad, Al Franken’s head appears delighted enough to dance disembodied on democracy’s grave. And a new Republican mailer Photoshops U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum’s face into that of a chainsaw killer. Yet it’s a holiday hook that’s not without its hazards — as a business group learned in Minnesota six years ago, with a mailer that seemed merely macabre one day but appeared to mock the dead the next.
Last week, on a trip to northern Minnesota, I shot this two-minute video of a visit to the Wellstone Memorial and Historic Site outside Eveleth, and today, on the sixth anniversary of the crash that took the lives of Paul Wellstone and six others, we present it.
Writing at TNR’s The Plank, Jason Zengerle picks up on an interesting fact of recent senate elections in Minnesota:
Here’s a weird bit of trivia. If Al Franken winds up beating Norm Coleman (and he’s now got a
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Al Franken’s a raving lunatic, right? That’s what Norm Coleman’s supporters would have you believe, but an interesting new Franken video calls out Coleman for a pretty egregious misrepresentation. The story, well told (and told first)…
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