This afternoon, videographer Chuck Olsen of The UpTake held a “press event” (pictured above) in response to another refusal by Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign to allow an UpTake reporter into a public campaign event. This is the third time this fall Coleman’s campaign has barred entry to an official event without explanation.
In a video released today by the UpTake, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie outlined allegations of voter intimidation by Minnesota Majority. Ritchie revealed during a press conference on Wednesday that someone working for Minnesota Majority president Jeff Davis was phoning voters and posing as a representative of the Secretary of State’s office. We wrote about the group’s tactics last week, exposing how their attempts at questioning the integrity of Minnesota’s voter rolls was, according to Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann, one of the ways the conservative organization was trying to suppress votes in Democrat-leaning counties.
Learn more about the lawsuit here, and watch the video by the UpTake of the press conference and Minnesota Majority’s ties to former SoS Mary Kiffmeyer after the jump.
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While the Minnesota Independent and The UpTake were barred entry from Sen. Norm Coleman’s “press availability” today, Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman made it inside and gave The UpTake‘s Chuck Olsen first word about what went…
One of the worst kept secrets at this weekend’s National Conference for Media Reform at the Minneapolis Convention Center is that Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show sent a crew to record the “real nuts” who are advocating for…
Our friends at The UpTake will be streaming live video of Barack Obama’s speech and rally at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul tonight. Also, MnIndy reporters Paul Demko, Tom Elko and Molly Priesmeyer will be filing…
The UpTake has produced a remarkable video on the Minnesota Republican Party’s growing intolerance of videobloggers, who are repeatedly getting tossed out of party events or told not to film. Beginning with citizen journalist Gavin Sullivan getting indelicately…
The State of the State is now in the past, but reaction is still simmering. The Uptake has the scoop:
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty waved his veto pen like a sword at his State of the State address, but
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“Brave souls” protest NFL rules: Local editors are resisting new National Football League rules that require on-field photographers to wear red vests bearing sponsor logos. On Friday, Strib managing editor Scott Gillespie and PiPress editor Thom Fladung sent…
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