Thirty-five votes … that’s all it may take to determine who the winner of the Special Election in House District 19-A which is required due to the resignation of Terry Morrow (DFL- St. Peter). It is rather interesting as the area has previously been served by Republicans such as Glen Taylor who was a Minnesota [...]
QUERY : How much of the $428,000 that John Kline raised last quarter will be invested in the Second District ? QUERY #2 : When will Chairman Kline schedule another committee hearing on any proposed legislation ? Catharine Richert at MPR reported that John Kline (R-MN-02) “appears to be having a particularly fruitful fundraising year” [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) as Chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee has a poll question concerning if the Affordable Care Act should be repealed. It is an unscientific poll but surely Mr. Kline believes that it will support his often stated beliefs : The vast majority of the public does not support this government [...]
Some time this fall, The New Ulm Journal will make its endorsements for November elections, but this week it opined on the recent Wisconsin election (highlights below): Watch Wisconsin The state of Wisconsin is starting to move on from a bruising recall battle, won by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans against the Democratic-public union [...]
It’s very early in the political process, as John Kline does not who is the DFL challenger is yet, but based on a recent MPR set of poll questions, Mr. Kline should be concerned. The polls were taken during an online forum featuring two of the three candidates who are competing for the DFL endorsement. [...]
Last week, the Republican-managed House successfully passed HR 9 The Small Business Tax Cut … the cost $45.95Billion … for one year … with a projected 39,000 jobs created … with no offsets – so the National Debt will rise. The Republicans plan to find offsets later. This week, the Republican-managed House is focused on [...]
MPR requested input from listeners and hosted an online DFL Candidate’s Forum for candidates that will challenge Erik Paulsen this November. The clear winner is the Third District as both Brian Barnes and Sharon Sund made a strong impression … voters will have a distinct choice to make in November, but the DFL will have [...]
Survey USA whittled down 1000 potential voters to determine that 656 were likely to vote this November. That’s the first bit of bad news … of the 1000, 926 were registered to vote … a very good ratio , but the drop-off is significant … in a democracy, it does no good to have people [...]
Minnesota State Fair was the setting for the most recent Gubernatorial Debate and while there were three candidates on stage, it was the man in the middle that took the spotlight … as he invoked three personas. There was the persona of Silent Tom Emmer … – “This is 126 days since you have been [...]
Although the election turnout was pathetic, as in any election the only question is “who” shows up to vote ? Assuming that DFLers were serious about selecting their candidate, was there any mischief generated by MN-GOP cross-over voters ? The August 10th election had three types of contests – those that were non-partisan elections, non-competitive [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
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Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
