It has been a few weeks since the state Legislature adjourned, letting Gov. Tim Pawlenty decide the fate of many bills they wrestled over until the last minute.
He signed most of them but vetoed some. Now he’s considering using…
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday appointed a special U.S. envoy for Somalia, ending more than 10 years of no diplomatic presence in the African nation. But some experts and local Somalis say the move is too little, too…
Following up on Minnesota Monitor’s report on Norm Coleman’s fundraising receipts, we now move to the other side of the ledger with a surprising statistic: more than half of Norm Coleman’s Q1 2007 spending went to political consultants.
Coleman’s…
Because absent a critical media, they can get away with it
Like war, taxes are a hot-button issue. Any discussion of them seems to get…
Could you please send us a million dollars?
TIME: 8:49 p.m. on a warm Sunday, April 15.
[The phone rings.]
ME: Hello?
CALLER: Hello. Is [name of my wife] home?
ME: May I ask who’s calling?
CALLER: I’m…
With the passage of the first-quarter deadline, all members of Congress and candidates should now have filed reports with the Federal Election Commission. Rep. Michele Bachmann has already filed, and so have Minnesota Congressmen Tim Walz and Keith Ellison.
Walz…
Entertainer Al Franken’s U.S. Senate campaign finalized its fundraising numbers today for the first quarter of 2007. Along with standard indications of how this effort compares to other recent campaigns, Franken’s staff took the chance to deflect Republican criticisms of…
A few days early, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has filed her Federal Election Commission reports. The freshman from Stillwater reports raising about $259,000, with about $200,000 cash-on-hand.
Delving into the numbers reveals some interesting trends. Bachmann received approximately $108,000 —…
Incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., raised $1.5 million dollars in the first quarter of 2007, according to a report from his campaign.
Coleman, who is widely considered to be vulnerable to a Democratic challenge in 2008, raised…
According to the latest financial disclosure reports, Education Minnesota, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and the Minnesota Vikings Football Club are the top-three spenders for lobbying, putting a combined $4 million into pitching state legislators. In 2006, the Vikings spent…
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