Archive for November, 2010
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Today’s cloture vote on an amendment from Sen. Coburn to ban earmarks from legislation in the U.S. Senate failed while both of Minnesota’s Senators voiced their lack of concern over pork-barrel spending by voting “no”. A similar measure was passed recently by the House of Representatives and the Coburn motion would have banned earmark spending [...]
DEMOCRATS GEARING UP FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM FIGHT?
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Could immigration reform be on the agenda for the Minnesota Legislature this next session? A group called Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform (MINNSIR) is asking for support to pressure Minnesota into adopting an Arizona style immigration law. After supposedly speaking with Legislators who are willing to bring this bill to the floor, the group’s fight will [...]
House GOP on Track to go 3 for 3 with Recount Seats as Brown Concedes in 27A
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010The House Republican caucus picked up another member today as the recounted election results in district 27A were made official when Robin Brown conceded to Rich Murray of Albert Lea. Rochester’s KTTC (via the AP) reports Brown viewed the 57 vote margin found before the recount to be insurmountable and the hand recount in Mower [...]
New Sheriff in Town: DFL’ers Begin Mass Exodus From Capitol
Monday, November 29th, 2010After a crushing, nationally recognized defeat of Minnesota Senate Dems on Nov. 2, newly-elected GOP’ers began moving in to their capitol offices under the dome and DFL’ers moved out. The move, which happens every election cycle, is historic this year because of the high volume of DFL House and Senate members that lost their seats [...]
EMMER STATEMENT AS DAY 1 OF RECOUNT CONCLUDES
Monday, November 29th, 2010Tom Emmer issued a statement regarding the statewide, legislatively mandated recount that began today: “Today marked the first day of the legislatively mandated hand recount of the Minnesota Governors Race. First, we all need to take a moment to thank the thousands of Minnesotans, from both sides of the aisle and the nonpartisan election officials, [...]
ANDY POST AND RYAN LYK TO LEAD MDE
Monday, November 29th, 2010With the departure of Luke Hellier from his position as leader of Minnesota Democrats Exposed, two young conservatives have taken the reins of one of Minnesota’s top sources for political information. Andy Post (Minneapolis) and Ryan Lyk (Duluth) will bring a fresh perspective to the site as Minnesota’s political scene transitions to a new and [...]
THANK YOU
Saturday, November 27th, 2010This is my last post as the blogger at Minnesota Democrats Exposed.com I want to offer my thanks to Michael Brodkorb putting together an absolutely fantastic blog and thanks to Aaron Cocking and Ryan Flynn for bringing me on board. I also want to thank everyone that has helped make MDE a success over the [...]
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010A very special Happy Thanksgiving. America has much for which to be thankful. The unequaled freedom enjoyed by our citizens has provided a harvest of plenty to this nation throughout its history. In keeping with America’s heritage, one day each year is set aside for giving thanks to God for all of His blessings. On this [...]
GOP STRATEGISTS TALK ABOUT SENATE TAKEOVER
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010From Politics in Minnesota: Late last week, three of the principal architects of the Republicans’ Minnesota Senate takeover gathered in Sen. Amy Koch’s old office for one last time to talk about how they’d pulled it off. Next to piles of GOP election mailers and memos, Koch sat with Ben Golnik, a consultant with Golnik [...]
GOP ANNOUNCES COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AND CHAIRS
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Republican leaders in the House and Senate announced the names of the chairs of the redesigned committee structure in the Minnesota Legislature. And Senate after the jump
RECOUNT TO START NOV. 29
Monday, November 15th, 2010FIRST 2012 GOP PRIMARY DEBATE ANNOUNCED
Friday, November 12th, 2010Simi Valley, CA – Former First Lady Nancy Reagan today announced plans to invite all of the leading contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination to two debates at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. The Reagan Presidential Foundation plans to play host to both the first GOP presidential debate of the 2012 election [...]
PAGING DAYTON FAMILY: DFL OUT OF MONEY
Thursday, November 11th, 2010Jacob Littler, a Regional Field Director for the Minnesota DFL, took to his Facebook page today to complain about his employer being a week late in paying his salary. Things are not going well for Plato and Brian Melendez UPDATE: I missed this the first time but another former DFL staffer commented on Littler’s thread [...]
JUST HOW BIG WAS THE GOP SENATE TAKEOVER?
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Tom Scheck from MPR lists the DFL Senate Incumbents that lost on November 2: -Mary Olson, of Bemidji (district 4) – Dan Skogen, of Hewitt (district 10) – Lisa Fobbe, of Zimmerman (district 16) – Rick Olseen, of Harris (district 17) – Kevin Dahle, of Northfield (district 25) – Ann Lynch, of Rochester (district 30) [...]
RITCHIE: TAKE ALL THE TIME IF YOU NEED IF YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010In light of Mark Ritchie’s recent comments about the recount it’s important to note what he said in 2008: Ritchie: “We Don’t Care When This Is Done.” “‘We are not in any way guided by any Washington considerations (or) timelines,’ said Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, chair of the canvassing board. ‘Our top priority is [...]
FREEDOM FOUNDATION INVESTIGATES ISSUES WITH RAIL
Monday, November 8th, 2010The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota has done considerable work looking into the Northstar Rail Plans. Earlier this year the group looked into the ridership on the Northstar Link (bus system). Northstar Commuter Rail has been running from Big Lake to Downtown Minneapolis since November 2009. While ridership has been on par with projections by Metro Transit, [...]
ON EVE OF ELECTION CLARK BREAKS THE LAW – PART 2
Sunday, November 7th, 2010As I wrote the day before the election Tarryl Clark illegally held a Tele-Town Hall with voters in CD6. MDE has obtained part of the audio of the call. Click Here to listen to the pre-recorded message from Clark followed by the first few minutes of the Town Hall. State law strictly prohibits these calls from being [...]
ELECTION’S BIG WINNERS
Sunday, November 7th, 2010This week I posted the election’s biggest losers. Today I line up the biggest winners. Speaker of the House – elect Kurt Zellers Kurt Zellers, State Representative from Maple Grove, is in line to become the next Speaker of the House after Saturday’s GOP House Caucus meeting. Zellers led the Republican caucus to huge victories [...]
NEW REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY PRESS CONFERENCE
Friday, November 5th, 2010Live at 6:00 PM. Watch by clicking the image.
KIFFMEYER CALLS ON RITCHIE TO DISAVOW INAPPROPRIATE PARTISAN COMMENTS
Friday, November 5th, 2010Per release from RPM: Former Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer today called on Secretary of State of Mark Ritchie to disavow deeply inappropriate and highly partisan writingswhich appeared on his official Twitter account concerning the Emmer-Dayton canvass and recount proceedings. In addition, former Secretary of State Kiffmeyer called on Ritchie to add a Republican lawyer to [...]
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