Consider yourself a small business owner heading home on a late Monday afternoon, driving on a divided major state highway, would you expect to be involved in a fatal crash ? Who would you expect to get called a “Patriot” by a Member of Congress ? Minnesota’s First District Congressman Jim Hagedorn response may surprise […]

On Friday when my email box received a note from Minnesota’s First District Congressman Jim Hagedorn informing voters that he “will keep fighting for the implementation of my #OnePillOnePrice policy to lower the cost of insulin and other prescription drugs”, I also received two pieces of real USPS mail with some Good News and some […]

Readers of the MN Political Roundtable may recall a commentary from 2015 concerning the need to update The Pregnancy Discrimination Act. http://mnpoliticalroundtable.com/2015/07/02/john-kline-assigned-to-reform-pregnancy-discrimination-act/ The Supreme Court had problems with the then 35-year-old law which the courts interpreted to mean that if an employer treats their non-pregnant employees well, they must treat pregnant employees the same way. […]

“We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land. And we will do it with American heart, and American hands, and American grit” — Donald J. Trump Hmmm … the only thing missing is the time frame.  Well, its 2020 re-election time, so it appears that President “I was […]

Was anyone surprised by the subjects that were discussed in First District Congressman Jim Hagedorn’s August 21st Hagedorn Report email? Sure, there were a lot of headlines that Congressman Hagedorn could have commented on : Select Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 election https://www.lawfareblog.com/collusion-reading-diary-what-did-senate-intelligence-committee-find; Trump’s Mankato “Rally of Lies” http://mnpoliticalroundtable.com/2020/08/18/trumps-mankato-rally-of-lies-and-hagedorn-hypes-non-existent-bill/ ; […]

On Monday, President Donald J. Trump flew into  Mankato Airport for a rally.  In attendance were some of Minnesota’s most fiscally-minded Republicans – like Tom Emmer who repeatedly votes against most spending bills complaining of the cost to taxpayers. The president’s visit to Mankato included an advance team that reportedly was 70 strong including a […]

Considering that on January 23, 2016, candidate Donald J. Trump said  “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” and won his election, will questions of fraud, waste and abuse result in Jim Hagedorn losing any of his voters ? The Minnesota Reformer is out […]

Jim Hagedorn’s January 25 town hall event held in Fillmore County’s Spring Valley was memorable due to his statement that “people should fend for themselves” made during a discussion of the Trump Administration’s plans to cut food assistance benefits (SNAP aka “food stamps“), but also because he was asked to support the health care of […]

On Thursday, I got the phone that every Minnesota First District voter wanted … an invitation to Congressman Jim Hagedorn’s Tele-TownHall event that afternoon. No doubt that many expected a big announcement — such as, after the U S military which was retreating from Germany would be redeployed to protect Confederate statues … but there […]

On Friday, July 24th, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) issued a press release announcing that he had received the Champion for Healthy Seniors Award from the Partnership to Fight Chronic Diseases. Impressed ? Well, Congressman Stauber is not the first Minnesotan to receive this “rare” award as Minnesota’s First District Congressman Jim Hagedorn issued a similar […]