St. Paul voters overwhelmingly backed Mayor Chris Coleman for a second term on Tuesday. The Democrat garnered support from 69 percent of voters, easily defeating challenger Eva Ng.
“Our work is not done here,” Coleman told supporters gathered in a ballroom at the St. Paul [...]
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U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine bristled at Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s litmus test for deciding whether she can call herself a Republican. “I’ve been a lifelong Republican. I haven’t changed. I don’t know what the problem is. I really don’t,” Snowe told the [...]
A photo from Rep. Ellison's Feb. 2009 trip to Gaza, via Flickr
Rep. Keith Ellison is urging members of Congress not to scrap the Goldstone report (pdf) on war crimes allegedly committed during the [...]
Another “awesome” Minneapolis ballot getting a bit of Lizard People–style attention is that of mayoral hopeful John Charles Wilson, who’s running as the “Edgertonite National Party” candidate. Boingboing, the country’s number-five blog, picks up on it today, noting that the [...]
MPR’s Bob Collins catches a Lizard People–like ballot entry in today’s Minneapolis election: Running for mayor is one Joey Lombard. His party affiliation makes a nifty sentence on the ballot:
See the full ballot, via MPR, after the jump.
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Friday was historic for LGBT Americans as President Obama signed into law a hate crimes bill that includes sexual orientation and gender identity. But some among Minnesota’s religious right didn’t receive the news warmly, saying the law will bring the wrath of [...]
In making the case for his federal same-day voter registration bill, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison points to how much voter fraud was alleged in the “highly scrutinized” Norm Coleman-Al Franken U.S. Senate contest due to Minnesotans’ ability to register to vote on Election Day: [...]
DFL Party sample ballot mailings that were supposed to arrive Friday or Saturday still had not reached some Minneapolis mailboxes as of Monday. Minneapolis DFL chair Dan McConnell says the party has been working with the postal service to locate undelivered sample ballots [...]
MSNBC commentators jumped on a remark by Gov. Pawlenty this morning about minimum requirements for being a Republican candidate: ”There’s a range of behavior and issue positions you can take. You just can’t be so far out of the mainstream that it becomes a joke.”
Ariana [...]
Rep. Michele Bachmann took to Fox News this morning to plug the anti-health care reform rally — which she referred to as “the Super Bowl of Freedom” — she is organizing in Washington with the corporate-funded, small-government group Americans for Prosperity. After the rally, which is scheduled for [...]
State Sen. Dick Cohen has been picked to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The committee advises the federal government’s three primary cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of [...]
Fair warning to U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe: Gov. Tim Pawlenty is watching you. “We want Olympia Snowe in the big tent,” he told MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, “but she can’t say she’s a Republican and vote against the Republican position much of the [...]
Andy Birkey, Chris Steller, Paul Schmelzer, Daphne Eviatar, David Weigel, Mary Kane, Mike Lillis, Spencer Ackerman, Martha C. White, Jon Collins, David O. Williams
