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edited by: Sally Jo Sorensen,
Minnesota Editor
MPP will [...]
From: W Prendergast
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:49 PM
To: Bivins, Larry
Subject: Your Michele Bachmann interview.
Hi Mr. Bivins.
I [...]
Kelliher and Dayton come out on top in the Minnesota Farmer's Union straw poll. Via Politics in Minnesota. They also have a piece on using GAMC as a wedge issue in 2010.
Smart Politics has great analysis of what is driving Maureen Reed and Tarryl [...]
That's why he keeps an aggressive travel schedule criss-crossing the state and why he spends countless hours on the phone, dialing away.
It's also why we enjoy social media tools. The campaign is [...]
- Little Timmy was on Hannity Monday evening, spewing predictable talking points. I'll rarely mention appearances' [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.
1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away, but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political battle."
2. [...]
What I want to do is edit the Bachmann video that is posted on YouTube, so that you don't have to sit through six to nine minutes [...]
The St. Cloud Times has done the same thing. Their Washington correspondent is a Gannett News Service guy name Larry Bivins. He filed a story from Washington that purports' [...]
In very loose, general terms, when I contemplate the psychology of someone like TPaw, I see two possibilities.
#1) He,' [...]
The recent news about the decision by State Senator Steve Dille not to run for reelection because he can't win the GOP endorsement got me thinking about purging elected officials who too often defy their own party, but I'm trying to think more deeply than just schadenfreude over [...]
The amicus brief stands on several main points:
1.)' [...]
- 11/13 (perhaps earlier) to 11/16 (last Monday): Florida, then Washington, DC.
- 11/16 A brief visit to MN,' [...]
In case you missed it:
Minneapolis has finished counting all the [...]
Yesterday's Mpls Star Tribune ran a front-page piece about one Frederick Becton who is suing King Tim [...]
TW: Thanks for coming, this matters.
Talking about how everyone thought MN-01 was unwinningable, but he never thought so. His campaign was really tech-savvy. Mentioned Sally Jo Sorenson's research work at Bluestem prairie during his race.
Public option was easiest vote' [...]
I thought the [...]
But the Governor's debate at the Netroots Nation had nine of the ten candidates present. Tom Bakk didn't show. We'll get the closing statement up' [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 20.
1. Jon Walker asks, "Is Harry Reid Laying The Ground Work To Betray Progressives For Snowe's Vote?" In the end, Walker concludes, "Reid does have the power to get a public option passed, there is" [...]
Play-by-play after the fold.
How will use new media in your campaign?
Kelley - using wikinomics(sp?)
Margaret Anderson-Kelliher (MAK) - I've been twittering for a while. You may have heard it about at the last legislative session.
Entenza -' [...]
"Our Executive Board spent eight hours screening nine of the current candidates for governor," said George Plautz, President of AFSCME Council 65. "After hearing their views" [...]
Chris Coleman is speaking right now, and the first round of panels will follow him. If you're here, drop in and use this post as an open thread for what you're seeing and hearing.
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Lois will be answering questions addressed to her here about health care reform on Saturday, 11/21, between 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
As a child growing up in Marshall, Minn., I had asthma. My father, a Lutheran minister, had a family health insurance plan that, though it had [...]
Some commenters on this site have indicated they have no problem with MN's governor rarely being in MN, dealing with MN's business, because the state' [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19.
1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be [...]
Now [...]
A regular reader sent a note, suggesting I google "minnesota democrats exposed" - so I did! And, here's what popped up!!!
I wonder if Brodkorb's boys got the idea to push pills from Rush Limbaugh? Probably not; everyone knows Limbaugh doesn't tell' [...]
Media relations expert Bill Prendergast will once again appear as co-host on today's Thursday edition of "Media Matters."
That will go off live at 6pm on AM950. It's that same station that Two Putt Tommy appears on.
I am not the star of the show, which is too bad. [...]
- Google Pawlenty, get Romney? Rather ridiculous. Though maybe it helps the' [...]
MAK gets her 2nd union endorsement.
Minnesota 2020's Hindsight blog looks at Minnesota's slipping public health ranking.
The Minnesota Independent looks at the Medicaid crisis the health care bill could be creating.
Check out Polinaut for where the candidates for Governor have been this [...]
As I traveled across Minnesota over the last few years, I found nothing was better [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 18.
1. Jane Hamsher reports that voting is now open for the Public Option Please (POP) art contest. There are six finalists, vote now!
2. Jon Walker writes that "it seems [Senator Thomas] Carper" [...]
(And the Big E is right. I was so incensed that I forgot to link. I was so incensed I had incense dripping from every pore. I'm [...]
This guarantees that there will be no candor, intentional or unintentional. (When I worked at the Dump Bachmann blog, I was offered the same [...]
