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No Schultz Report this week

By Steve Perry | 05.30.08 | 1:14 pm

Just a reminder: As David Schultz noted in last week’s Schultz Report audiocast, he’s at a conference in Russia this week. He’ll be back with us next Friday.

Check out previous editions of The Schultz Report here.

Real bottom line in Franken’s Playboy snafu: Mike Ciresi is making his move

By Steve Perry | 05.30.08 | 11:26 am

Everyone who has seen Rep. Betty McCollum’s comments from yesterday — reported this morning at the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, AP and Politico — already knows that May 29…

Return to blue: Minnesota slips from battleground line

By Paul Demko | 05.30.08 | 10:35 am

In today’s edition of “The Line,” Chris Cillizza ranks the 10 state’s most likely to switch parties in the presidential election. Conspicuously missing from the list: Minnesota. When Cillizza last weighted battleground states,…

Sen. Coleman gets police backing

By Paul Demko | 05.29.08 | 3:54 pm

The Minneapolis and St. Paul police unions endorsed Sen. Norm Coleman for re-election today. The police federations represent roughly 1,600 cops and emergency communication workers. “If public safety is important to you as a voter then you…

Video: The DC press corps would like to remind Scott McClellan that nobody likes a tattletale

By Steve Perry | 05.29.08 | 1:00 pm

There’s something mordantly funny about watching the stenographers and voice talent of the Washington press corps fulminate about Scott McClellan’s admissions regarding the paper-thin pretexts on which the Iraq War was sold by the White House. You…

VP or not VP: Pawlenty’s stock falls with GOP insiders

By Paul Demko | 05.29.08 | 11:07 am

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s prospects in the veep sweepstakes have tumbled in recent months among Republican pooh-bahs, according to a new poll conducted by the National Journal. The survey of more than 100 Beltway insiders tapped Mitt Romney…

Update: Secret Service’s stonewalling in racial discrimination suit could cost them today

By Steve Perry | 05.29.08 | 9:33 am

The Washington Post reports that the US Secret Service’s foot-dragging in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed eight years ago by a group of African-American agents (previous MinMon item here) could come back to bite the…

Campaign satire: ‘Young Hillary Clinton’ explains HRC campaign to us as if we were 10 years old

By Steve Perry | 05.29.08 | 8:19 am

This is fun. Actors Jerry O’Connell (Jerry Maguire, Crossing Jordan) and Brandon Johnson made this short depicting a 10-year-old Hillary Clinton laying the foundation for her future presidential bid.

It opens with Hillary’s team losing a kickball…

Bakk explores 2010 gubernatorial bid

By Paul Demko | 05.28.08 | 5:28 pm

State Sen. Tom Bakk has taken the first step toward running for governor in 2010. The Virginia, Minnesota Democrat has created a campaign committee, which will allow him to…