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Gubernatorial Elections

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Wisconsin wife runs husband over with SUV following Scott Walker recall argument

    Modern American politics is divisive, sure, but who knew it could be this bad?Chippewa Falls resident Jeffrey Radle, 36, found himself in the hospital yesterday after a political argument with his wife, Amanda Radle, 30. The verbal dispute culminated in physical violence when Amanda ran over her hus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    MN GOP is $2 million in debt

    Former GOP Party Chair Tony Sutton is batting 2 million.​According to new figures released today by the Republican Party's own Internal Finance Review Committee, the GOP is up to its neck in debt -- about $2 million worth. "The debt number is honestly higher than any of us wants it to be," said c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 30, 2011

    Kinky Friedman

    Former GOP Party Chair Tony Sutton is batting 2 million.​According to new figures released today by the Republican Party's own Internal Finance Review Committee, the GOP is up to its neck in debt -- about $2 million worth. "The debt number is honestly higher than any of us wants it to be," said c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Tom Emmer's new gig: KTLK radio jock

    KTLKBut seriously, this was his third choice.​In this tough economy, sometimes we have to settle. This seems to be the case for Tom Emmer, former Republican gubernatorial candidate, who has taken a job as a drive-time talk show host on Fox News-affiliated KTLK-FM. This is great news for all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Mark Dayton accepts $120,303 salary after all

    Dayton's spokeswoman couldn't say if he'll continue to accept the salary for his entire term.​Up until today, Mark Dayton hasn't been able to decide if he would accept the $120,303 governor's salary. After all, Dayton is an heir to a department store fortune and had millions of his own money ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Minnesota led nation again in voter turnout

    Minnesota, where all the voters are above average.​While state Republicans slag on Minnesota's election process, some new numbers suggest we have a lot to be proud of: No other state's voters went to the polls in greater numbers than us. On the downside, that means the recount in the governo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Constitutional ban on gay marriage hits the fast track

    Unemployment? Foreclosures? Massive budget deficit? Take a number.​Remember how Republicans kept telling us this election was supposed to be all about jobs, jobs, tax breaks and more jobs? The crappy economy gave conservative Christians cover from having to talk too much about over-sharing the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Mark Dayton vs. Tom Emmer: The recount timeline

    The goal: Dec. 14.​Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has published his proposed timeline for the recount process in the governor's race. Hopefully he ran all this by Heidi Collins over at Fox9, just to make sure she's OK with the planning. Wouldn't want her going off again.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Tom Emmer's seven mortgages unearthed by blogger

    Who's a regular Minnesotan?​Score one for the blogosphere. Last month, Sally Jo Sorensen posted on her Bluestem Prairie site that Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer had taken out seven mortgages on his Delano home since 2002. Today, the Minnesota DFL gave that tidbit a much bigger m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Mark Dayton rumor: The Documents

    Mark Dayton rumors: Where's the beef?​Here's the essence of the mysterious documents that suddenly landed in the hands of a select batch of Minnesota journalists' mailboxes last week: A phantom author relaying an unproven rumor from an anonymous source, based on a third unidentified source, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Dayton sex assault rumor knocked down with old-fashioned reporting

    Mark Dayton was the victim of a smear campaign​The smear campaign against Mark Dayton began bubbling up last week--just in time, a callous political strategist might reason, to tip a tight Governors race.Last week Fox9 dedicated a segment to the scurrilous allegation--simultaneously sent to mult ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Mark Dayton, Tom Emmer and Tom Horner pledge new Vikings stadium

    Horner's wit earned the biggest applause and laughs last night at the expense of his opponents.​Gubernatorial candidates Tom Emmer, Mark Dayton and Tom Horner don't agree on much. And with Election Day fast approaching, none wasted much time with pleasantries at last night's debate. Independe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Arne Carlson & Star Tribune bless Tom Horner's credibility

    Tom Horner gets an almost-endorsement from the Strib​In a swipe at his own party, former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson threw his support behind Independence Party candidate for governor Tom Horner today, calling GOP candidate Tom Emmer, and Democrat Mark Dayton, "too extreme" to seriously tackl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    The Facebook photos Tom Emmer doesn't want you to see

    The acorn doesn't fall from the tree​Minnesota's Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer put his family front and center in his first television ad, his 20-year-old son Tripp making the pitch that his father is "always talking about cutting taxes and reforming government." But City Pages has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    GOP trackers: "I'm with stupid"

    Not a doctored photoArtist's representation of proposed GOP tracker t-shirts​Minnesota Republicans unveiled a very odd response to DFL gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton's recent whining about "trackers" showing up at his rallies brandishing Flip videos.The Grand Old Party is using Ye Olde Gag T- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Tom Emmer and Tom Horner see a Land Of 10,000 Springfields

    There will be more work in Minnesota for Homer Simpson if Emmer or Horner get their wayMinnesota might start looking a bit more like Springfield if two of our candidates for governor get their way. Both Republican Tom Emmer and Independent Tom Horner want to lift Minnesota's moratorium on nuclear po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2010

    Human Rights Campaign calls out Target, Best Buy in full-page ad

    Target CEO​When Minnesota's big-box behemoths Target and Best Buy contributed six-figure donations this month to a committee called MN Forward, they likely had no idea what kind of controversy would follow. Now they're dealing with boycotts by nice grandmas, bad press nationwide and most recently, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Mark Dayton, Matt Entenza spend and barely lift a finger

    Matt Entenza just wrote his campaign a check for a cool $4 million​Remember a few months ago when Matt Entenza and Mark Dayton said they would be willing to spend millions of dollars from their own fortunes on their gubernatorial campaigns? Looks like they weren't kidding. This week's campaign ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Slug endorses Matt Entenza for governor

    The Matt Entenza gubernatorial campaign has been full of WTF moments. Remember, this is the guy who picked a FOX 9 news anchor/jewelry entrepreneur to be his running mate. Then there was that false report that the Minnesota faction of the National Organization for Women endorsed Entenza over Marga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Margaret Anderson Kelliher tax disclosure follows Dayton

    Photo: Nick VlcekThe Kellihers pulled in $143,968 last year​Following Mark Dayton's lead, DFL-endorsed gubernatorial candidateMargaret Anderson Kelliher released her 2009 tax records yesterday afternoon. Filing jointly, Kelliher and her husband, David Kelliher, earned $143,968 in adjusted gros ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Tom Emmer goes after food server wages

    Emmer plans to go after the rich...servers?​Based on his statements yesterday, it seems Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Tom Emmer has never worked in the restaurant business. At the Eagle Street Grille in St. Paul he proposed that restaurant owners should pay a lower minimum wage (ofte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Mark Dayton earned $166,889 last year without lifting a finger

    Mark Dayton dropped big donations on Planned Parenthood and MinnPost​Mark Dayton, one of three candidates running in the DFL primary election, released his tax records to reporters today. Dayton earned $172,475 in 2009, according to the records. The overwhelming bulk of the income -- $166,88 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Republican campaign complaint against Tom Horner tossed

    The poll that piqued Republicans showed their candidate for governor losing ground​The Republican Party of Minnesota has failed in its effort to nail IP-endorsed gubernatorial candidate -- and former Republican -- Tom Horner for shady politicking. An administrative law judge ruled yesterday t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Susan Gaertner endorses Matt Entenza for governor

    Sisterhood only goes so far​So much for the sisterhood. When DFLer Susan Gaertner dropped out of the governor's race, she said that one of her reasons was to try and clear a path for rival Margaret Anderson Keliher to make some history. "This is the closest Minnesota has yet to come to elec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    GOP complaint against Tom Horner nixed by board. (That was fast)

    ​Who says the government isn't efficient? It took the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board just a day to consign a Republican complaint against IP gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner to the "out" box. The complaint alleges that former Republican Horner received an illegal cam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Matt Entenza's St. Paul campaign office burglarized

    ​Sometime between late Wednesday and early Thursday, burglars broke into DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza's campaign office on University Avenue and made off with laptop computers, still and video cameras valued at about $3,000. St. Paul police said there are no suspects. Entenza spo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2010

    Tom Horner wins IP endorsement

    The man in the middle​Tom Horner took home the Independence Party gubernatorial endorsement Saturday, officially securing the businessman and former Republican's place in the middle. And the middle is just where Horner wants to be. He's told reporters many times that he's in it to win it, no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Tom Emmer wins GOP endorsement

    Tom Emmer, hockey dad​Sarah Palin picked a winner: Republican state Rep. Tom Emmer won the his party's endorsement for the Minnesota's governor's race on Friday. Palin, who quit her own job as Aaska's governor after a failed shot at the vice presidency, had chimed in just before the conventio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Sarah Palin endorses Tom Emmer for governor

    Palin endorses Emmer. Does it matter?​She bailed out on her own first term as Alaska's governor, but Sarah Palin has become a full-blown Tea Party celebrity since then, and today she endorsed Tom Emmer in his race for the Minnesota GOP gubernatorial race from her Facebook page. "A patriotic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Margaret Anderson Kelliher accepts DFL nod (video)

    Margaret Anderson Kelliher accept the DFL endorsement to run for governor of Minnesota in 2010.

  • News

    March 3, 2010

    Drinking Liberally pairs progressive politics and a social hour

    Minnesota's chapter meets weekly and launched in 2004

  • News

    January 20, 2010

    "Vampire King" Jonathon Sharkey running for Minnesota governor

    Would the alleged blood drinker truly suck for Minnesota?

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Norm Coleman says he's not running for governor

    The former senator used his Facebook page to tell supporters the timing isn't right for a run for governor.

  • News

    January 13, 2010

    Star Tribune asks guv candidates for mental health records

    Amid layoffs and a new publisher, the paper finally hits bottom

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Star Tribune launches modern-day Inquisition

    The email ominously promises, "The response - or the absence of a response - will likely be used in a future news story."

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    Rybak, Coleman sworn in for new terms today

    R.T. Rybak has one eye on the governor's race as he takes the oath of office today.

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Forget naughty or nice, Santa is more concerned with swine flu

    Plus: Minneapolis mayor wins election, immediately pursues higher office

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Shocker: Rybak running for governor

    Just two days after winning reelection as Minneapolis mayor, R.T. Rybak appears to have his sights on higher office.

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Busted: Rybak used mayoral campaign funds for gubernatorial run

    Rybak used mayoral campaign funds in May to conduct a poll about his strength to run for governor.

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Rybak still pretending he isn't running for governor just yet

    During a short debate on Minnesota Public Radio today, Rybak acknowledged that it would be tough to run Minneapolis while also campaigning for governor... IF he decides to run.

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2008

    Stephen Evans

    During a short debate on Minnesota Public Radio today, Rybak acknowledged that it would be tough to run Minneapolis while also campaigning for governor... IF he decides to run.

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