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Chip Cravaack Lies to His Constituents on the Taxpayer’s Nickel in Telephone Town Halls

This is my maiden post on Minnesota Roundtable, so I hope it is a good one; here goes! On Tuesday, November 15th, Chip Cravaack held an approximately one hour telephone Town Hall. This was not the first of these events in which I have been included as one of Cravaack’s constituents. In every one of

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MN-GOV : Survey Brings Good News for Walz, Meffert and Clark

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

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MN-GOV : Emmer Takes on Regulations

QUERY : The number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 is : A.) More than the number who are killed annually by something they ate ? B.) Less than the number who are killed annually by something they ate ? C.) Roughly the same as the number who are killed

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Minnesota’s CD6: Tarryl Clark TV, Internet, Persistence

Minnesota’s Tarryl Clark is plugging away in CD6. Want to know what she’s about? Her issues page nicely details her values and goals/. Tarryl stands for: –remembering to help small businesses as we provide job incentives –bringing together industry and labor to create vertical construction and transportation jobs –keeping us in our homes, see the

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SD-36 : Quist Offers More Than Common Sense

Rainy days provides time for catching up on my reading … and so it is that I am finally read the Farmington Independent story on Steve Quist and his decision to enter the race to represent Senate District 36 ( Dakota County : Empire, Eureka, Farmington, Lakeville, Marshan, Randolph, Ravenna, Vermillion, and other communities; and

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We need food on the table: Margaret Anderson Kelliher on another Rural Tour

I used to teach social studies and would make sure we played “Create your country.” It was always my favorite time of the year. Kids would start by drawing a map that could not be amended, later.  Next I’d hand out a list of questions like “Who has power in your country,” “Do you have

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