Archive for February, 2010
« Previous EntriesGOP DELEGATE COUNT UPDATE
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Below you will find two separate counts based on some conflicting reports. This information has 69 of the 79 conventions. A total of 1256 delegates have been identified so far. To send results in to MDE click here. These results came from multiple sources and some results are conflicting. Remember that any delegate can change [...]
SUPER SATURDAY CONVENTION COVERAGE
Friday, February 26th, 2010MDE will be live-blogging Super Saturday, where 43 local party units will be holding endorsing conventions, from across Minnesota. If you are at a BPOU convention please tweet with hashtag #mngop or #supersaturday. Super Saturday Convention Coverage
WEBER AND SULLIVAN ENDORSE EMMER
Friday, February 26th, 2010Per release: Saint Paul – Former Congressman Vin Weber and Republican National Committeeman Brian Sullivan endorsed Tom Emmer for governor today in a press conference at the state capitol. The latest endorsements give Emmer strong momentum heading into Saturday with forty-four local districts selecting delegates to the state convention. “As a business owner, I’m supporting [...]
EMMER TO HOLD RALLY FOLLOWING ENDORSEMENT PRESS CONFERENCE
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Emmer for Governor campaign sent out the following email about tomorrow’s endorsements: The Emmer campaign has had a very exciting week leading up to Super Saturday. On Tuesday, we announced our Lt. Governor search committee chaired by Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau. On Wednesday, we received the endorsement of five more sitting legislators, including Sen. Warren [...]
REP. TONY CORNISH TO HOLD PERMIT CLASS
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Rep. Tony Cornish the author of the Conceal and Carry legislation is hosting a permit class this spring. The details are below: March 27th Oakdale Gun Club All day starting at 8 am Handgun Permit to Carry Class that will qualify you with a certificate to take to your sheriff to apply for a permit. [...]
LEGISLATIVE ENDORSEMENTS FOR EMMER & SEIFERT
Thursday, February 25th, 2010UPDATE: The totals below have changed because Rep. Steve Smith has essentially endorsed both candidates thus his name will be removed from the list. Also, Rep. Doug Magnus was left off Seifert’s list. Read Smith’s statement from MPR here. Seifert is endorsed by six senators and 13 representatives. Emmer is endorsed by Lt. Gov Molnau, [...]
UPDATE: SEN. HANN ENDORSES SEIFERT FOR GOVERNOR
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010UPDATE: Following yesterday’s endorsement of Marty Seifert by David Hann two other Senators, Joe Gimse and Bill Ingebritsen, endorsed Seifert for Governor. Sen. Gimse had served as Sen. Hann’s campaign chair until he dropped out of the race for Governor last week. Here is Sen. Hann’s letter to supporters: Fellow Republicans, It is absolutely critical [...]
EMMER ANNOUNCES MORE ENDORSEMENTS
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Sen. Mike Parry joins Sen. Limmer, Sen. Johnson, Rep. Kelly, and Rep. Smith in endorsing Emmer for Governor: Saint Paul – Newly elected Senator Mike Parry endorsed Tom Emmer for governor today in a press conference at the state capitol. He was joined in his endorsement by Senator Warren Limmer (R–Maple Grove), Senator Debbie Johnson [...]
MNGOP FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST RYBAK FOR GOVERNOR
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Press Release- St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb today filed a formal complaint with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board regarding Minneapolis Mayor Raymond Thomas (R.T.) Rybak’s mayoral campaign purchase of the Democratic-Farmer Labor Party’s Voter Activation Network (VAN). During his mayoral campaign in 2009, [...]
GOP SENATE CAUCUS ON DEBT BILL
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Press Release: KEY REPUBLICANS RAIL AGAINST DFL BONDING BILL’S LACK OF FOCUS AND BLOATED DOLLAR AMOUNT (St. Paul) – Late Monday night, the Senate approved a Capital Investment Bill which came in at nearly $1 billion dollars. Senate Republicans labeled the bill a fatally flawed process by the rejection of several common-sense amendments. They also questioned the timing of passing [...]
UPDATE: MNGOP GOVERNOR DELEGATE COUNT
Monday, February 22nd, 2010MDE received several pieces of feed back today and have come up with two seperate delegate counts to the previous post on MDE. Here are the two different counts due to some disputed results in a few areas: Count One: Count Two:
GOV. PAWLENTY WILL VETO DFL DEBT BILL
Monday, February 22nd, 2010The debate is about to start on the House floor over the DFL Debt Bill. While it is important that a bonding bill be passed tonight’s bill is a bloated version of what should be on the table. The budget forecast calls for a $725 million bonding bill. That’s all we can afford. The Governor’s [...]
SEN. PARISEAU TO RETIRE
Monday, February 22nd, 2010per press release: St. Paul – State Senator Pat Pariseau (R – Farmington) will be stepping down as the Senator from the 36th district after serving seven terms in the Minnesota Senate. “I have been carefully considering my retirement for quite a while now and want to step aside to let a new voice represent [...]
LIBERAL BLOGGER THREATENS CONSERVATIVE OVER BONDING BILL
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Liberal blogger & fervent Rybak for Governor supporter Judy Grundstrom from justjudyjudyjudy.com has taken to Twitter today to intimidate conservatives who don’t support the DFL’s $1 billion debt bill. Here’s the post: This is just another example of liberals using “thug like” tactics to intimidate people that don’t support their views.
THE DFL’S BLOATED DEBT BILL
Monday, February 22nd, 2010In the middle of the night the DFL put together their $1 billion debt bill behind closed doors while releasing the conference committee report at 1:30 AM. For a party that is about “transparency” and public input this is outrageous. The bonding bill is chalk full of pork and left out key funding for public [...]
UPDATED: MNGOP DELEGATE COUNT
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Through this last weekend the Republican Party of Minnesota has held 36 separate local conventions to elect delegates. Unlike the DFL, the Republican party does not have super delegates, but many of the Senators and Representatives who have endorsed a candidate will be elected as a delegate. Below is the delegate count for 31 of [...]
DFL SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
Sunday, February 21st, 2010In what has become an almost weekly story of Democrats retiring and top recruits shying away from running for office the DFL has gone to the newspaper looking for people to run for office. The following is a piece in the Marshall Independent. A similar story was in the New Ulm paper as well.
GOP DELEGATE COUNT
Saturday, February 20th, 2010MDE is in the process of collecting information on how many delegates each candidate has received for the Republican endorsement over the last few weeks. Please email your BPOU results here. Looking for results from the following BPOUs: Nobles County BPOU Convention SD49 BPOU Convention Wabasha County BPOU Convention Koochiching County BPOU Convention SD58 BPOU [...]
MINNESOTA DELEGATION AT CPAC
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Governor Pawlenty and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann spoke at Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. You can find both videos of their speeches below: Tim Pawlenty Michele Bachmann
MNGOP CONVENTION COVERAGE 2/20
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Check back Saturday morning to receive information on local MNGOP conventions endorsing candidates and electing delegates to the state convention. Some conventions from this weekend are listed here. MNGOP Local Convention Coverage 2/20
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