Mohamud Noor almost. Still a winning campaign.
A man who immigrated to Minnesota 12 years ago from Somalia waged a good fight against the DFL machine for the Senate seat in district 59. He fell short by 336 votes, but he won many hearts along the way. Good job Mohamud. I look forward to seeing your leadership continue in other ways in […]
SD 59 election today
After five short weeks of campaigning it all comes down to the vote today. The winner will the first new Senator representing District 59 in 30 years. It’s so encouraging that we have such great candidates to choose from. I seriously wish we had ranked choice voting for this race since I am still torn […]
Shake up at the Bachamann campaign.
Ed Rollins and his deputy campaign manager are both jumping off the Bachmann bandwagon. Rollins says it’s because of health issues that he is stepping down but goes on to say that this is a Perry/Romney race and that they have not been able to turn her winning of the straw poll in Iowa into […]
Michele Bachmann speaking to the American Legion National Convention.
Perhaps not her biggest gaffe on the campaign trail however it does seem Michele Bachmann is always a little off on her facts. As you can see in the video, she is reading from her own printed speech so she’ll be unable to blame it on the telepromters. You can see it here thanks to […]
Dealing with the intractable.
Today Governor Mark Dayton made one more offer to Speaker Zeller and Senate Majority leader Koch. Dayton said he would accept the June 30th offer made by the Republicans with some conditions. Dayton announced this during a presentation at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Larry Jacobs does a fantastic […]