Ron Carey

The Republican Party of Minnesota expressed its concerns to its supporters today about a possible Senate run by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura. The e-mail, sent by Minnesota GOP party chair Ron Carey, captions a picture of Ventura in a pink blazer, sporting a yellow feather boa and holding a WWF microphone with the words [...]

Something or other is going on in New Hampshire today. Plenty of coverage of primary results, as well as analysis and reaction from the blogs, to come later in the day.

In the meantime, we have money numbers in the Senate race! Let’s chew on some.

Senate:  DFL contender Al Franken announced yesterday that he raised a [...]

The following is a transcript of an interview conducted by Jeff Fecke of Minnesota Monitor of Andy A. Aplikowski.

MM: First of all, 2006 was a difficult year for the Republican party, both in Minnesota and nationally.  What do you attribute the electoral difficulties of last year to?

AAA: Ron Carey.  Pure and simple.  No two ways [...]

[Update]:  Per the comments on this post, Mr. Aplikowski appears to have backed away from the comments he made to Jeff Fecke.  Minnesota Monitor strives for fairness in all our work, but truth, according to the code of ethics to which our fellows adhere, is a higher purpose than balance.  To that end, the full [...]

Editor’s Note: Minnesota Monitor is happy to welcome back Matt Martin of MNpublius, who will be writing twice monthly columns on the first and 15th.  This article is cross-posted at MNpublius

If you’ve opened a newspaper in the last 2 weeks you’ve no doubt heard the news: the DFL controlled state legislature has voted to change [...]