MPR Governor Debate at the Minnesota State Fair
I attended my first debate now that the race is down to the final three, two hockey players, and the pr guy. Since they have already had 8 debates, with many others scheduled, they know everything the other one has to say and the challenge now becomes having the best response back to what you […]
Final MPR debate at the Fitzgerald Theater
Decision time has arrived. Vote Tuesday August 10th. More at my Gov blog.
Retail politics with MAK
For more images and comments please go to my Gov blog to see my story from the day.
Margaret Anderson Kelliher at the Twin Cities African American Leadership Forum
You can see more from the Forum at my gov blog.
Mark Dayton speaks to Drinking Liberally
Drinking Liberally is a group that meets every Thursday evening at the 331 bar in NE Minneapolis. Periodically they have a politician come in to speak to the group and answer questions. This is a very thoughtful group. Last night one of the questions for Mark Dayton was, why did he not seek the DFL […]
Matt Entenza with Robyne Robinson at Ebnezer High Rise
Things are really going to ramp up now for the DFL primary. Today I was at the MPR debate on Midmorning with Kerri Miller. I also had one event on Mark Dayton’s schedule and a couple of events on Matt Entenza’s schedule. MAK and Entenza are doing campaign stops up north so the next event […]
Tom Emmer meets with restaurant servers
There were some errors of reporting of what Emmer had said regarding how much food servers should be paid, but he did say repeatedly that the tax credit should be put back to the owners so they can pay under minimum wage. He also said there are servers who make $100,000 and that is more […]
Budget negotiations. May 13, 2010
Somehow I missed this frame editing when I was sending images to Minnpost for my story about getting permission to photograph a meeting with the DFL leaders from the House and Senate a few days before the end of session. It was a fascinating experience.
Marty Seifert retirement speech on House floor.
Tom Emmer watches from the retiring room off the House floor. More can be found on my Gov blog.
Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s final day as Speaker of the House.
After a quick consideration of the 100s of images I shot the past several days, I think this image, although quiet, is among my favorites. It was right after the Speaker had given her resignation speech. Hers was the last of several emotional speeches made by retiring Representatives who, for various reasons are moving on […]