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 [...]
Grant Bosse is onto something. Let me go further than that. Grant Bosse is a genius. This video will explain why he’s a genius:
Here’s a transcript of the interview he did with FNC’s Brian Sullivan:
SULLIVAN: Your next guest has jsut announced his run for Congress from the phantom [...]
MC would like to swear. It will in private but not on this blog. Eat it, you Palin haters. Just eat it.
Posted in Cartoons Tagged: Bowing [...] 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 -' [...]
Minn. House weighs in on unallotment case
[...]Washington political analyst Norm Ornstein says Rep. Michelle has become one of the 10 best-known members of the U.S. House, but her provocative style is contributing the debasement of the nation's political culture.
"She's a celebrity... They love her on the talk shows," Ornstein said of the outspoken Minnesota Republican [...]
Posted in Tune Time, Video Tagged: Music, The Beatles [...] House Research has completed the brief of amicus curiae that supports a complaint in Ramsey County District Court against Gov. Tim Pawlenty's unallotment.
Nonpartisan House Research attorneys were asked on Monday to write the brief by the House Rules Committee. The Rules Committee agreed to side with the plaintiffs in' [...]
Sen. Carl Levin is not only a moron, but he’s also a commie.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) – Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers.
An [...]

Religious right leaders announced Friday that they won’t abide by laws that support gay marriage or abortion. One hundred and twenty-five members of the religious right and leaders from the Catholic church signed the Manhattan Declaration. Only one signer was from Minnesota: Archbishop John Nienstedt [...]
Former GOP state Rep. Ron Erhardt of Edina is exploring a run for his old House seat as a Democrat.
“I’m looking to run. I raised money earlier in the year,” said Erhardt today in a telephone interview with PIM…
…Erhardt said it appears his chances of winning [...]
"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" [...]
Former GOP state Rep. Ron Erhardt of Edina is exploring a run for his old House seat as a Democrat.
“I’m looking to run. I raised money earlier in the year,” said Erhardt today in a telephone interview with PIM.
Erhardt, a moderate, spent nine terms in the House. When Republicans controlled [...]
Two school districts in southwest Minnesota have signed on to the YES! Program, administered by the Southwest Initiative Foundation, that offers hands-on energy action projects to look at energy opportunities and issues in rural Minnesota.
A recent report in the Worthington Daily Globe noted that Windom [...]

Minnesota Speaker of the House and DFL gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher has collected another union endorsement, this time from the American Federation of State, County and Muncipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 65, which represents 13,000 employees in greater Minnesota.
"Our members worry about how to pay for health care or whether [...]
AFSCME Council 65 has endorsed House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher for governor.
This comes a day after she picked up Local 49 (operating engineers). She also has the backing of MAPE, the second-largest state employee union.
The big one looming is still Education Minnesota. If Kelliher can pick up that [...]
I'll be dividing my time this weekend with Netroots MN and the Minnesota Farmers Union convention, so posting will be light. Here's an article from the Farmer about the latter event:
Minnesota Farmers Union is having their annual state convention Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November' [...]

The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch hotel in Beaver Creek, Colo., site of a $113,753 Xcel board of directors retreat
DENVER — With St. Paul–based Xcel Energy on pace to [...]
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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Posted in Video Tagged: News Busted [...] Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is again the rage in 2009, from which I quote below. Industrialist Henry Reardon is before a court of the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources.
"Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?
"I [...]

“Crafty” detainees in Iraq have taken to taunting members of the Wisconsin National Guard about the successes of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre.
As if Iraq weren’t already riven enough with its own internecine antagonisms, prisoners there under U.S. military guard are siding with Minnesota in [...]

Harry Reid plans a key procedural vote in the Senate this weekend, apparently trying to follow Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps in jamming ObamaCare down the throats of a skeptical chamber before members can hear from their constituents. Unlike Pelosi, however, this vote will not be on the bill itself, or even [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever asked this before. But, I’m curious who you all are. I don’t really do much in the way of advertising, though maybe I should. (I’ve said before, putting together the blog is a way for me to keep up with what’s going on.) I get [...]

