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Mark Buesgens

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    MNGOP report reveals "inadequate transparency and oversight" of party finances

    An internal review committee formed to look into the Minnesota Republican Party's finances found no "theft" at the MNGOP but uncovered evidence of mismanagement. The committee's members -- Pat Anderson, Scott Dutcher, Kelly Fenton, Randy Gilbert, Jeff Johnson, Terry McCall, Bron Scherer, Rick Weibl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Rep. Mark Buesgens has a month to redeem his foreclosed home

    ​Former Tom Emmer campaign chief and current state representative Mark Buesgens has a month to redeem his foreclosed home or lose it, records show. Buesgens purchased the home, a Jordan mansion, in 2004, from Washington Mutual Bank. The mortgage was over $644,000. It was foreclosed on this spring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Ben Foster, Pawlenty staffer, arrested in Iowa for drunkenness

    facebookBen Foster, the Pawlenty operative arrested for drunkenness this morning in Iowa.​When Tim Pawlenty hired 24-year-old Ben Foster in September, it made headlines: Foster was the first full-time Iowa staffer for any of the nascent 2012 presidential campaigns. Today, Foster's making hea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Rep. Mark Buesgens, on probation for DWI, pulled over again

    Buesgens in his September mug shot.​Rep. Mark Buesgens is already on probation for a drunken driving conviction last year that embarrassed Tom Emmer's gubernatorial campaign, and led to Buesgens giving up a House leadership role. Now he's been pulled over again. Buesgens was stopped on Wedn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Tom Hackbarth files bill to bring back smoking in bars

    Rex RoofReturn of the smoky bar?​Smokers haven't been able to light up in Minnesota bars since 2007, but a group of state representatives want to bring us back to those heady days of barside cigarettes. A bill filed today would allow smoking in bars, provided the bars install a ventilation system ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Mark Buesgens quits House leadership post

    Buesgens gives up his gavel.​A DWI conviction won't keep you out of the state Legislature, but it can get you booted from your committee chairmanship. Mark Buesgens, the Jordan state representative busted for drunk driving this summer, has resigned his chairmanship of the House State Government a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Rep. Mark Buesgens sentenced in DWI charge

    Buesgens's probation should wrap up in time for reelection.​A judge sentenced Minnesota Rep. Mark Buesgens to 60 hours of community service today for his September DWI charge. Buesgens will also serve two years of probation, meaning he'll be free and clear at about the same time his next leg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    Mark Buesgens pleads guilty to DWI three days after reelection

    Rep. Mark Buesgens has had a week full of ups and downs.​When State Rep. Mark Buesgens drove into a ditch and was captured on a police dash-cam spectacularly failing a field sobriety test in September, it seemed like consequences might never be the same. After all, Buesgens was listed as the chair ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Mark Buesgens resigns as GOP consultant after DWI arrest

    Image courtesy Wright County Sheriff's DepartmentRep. Mark Buesgens steps down as GOP consultant.​State Rep. Mark Buesgsens resigned as a GOP consultant today after being arrested Saturday night in Wright County on suspicion of drunken driving. Buesgens was listed as the chairman of Tom Emmer's gu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Tripp Emmer drank illegally at a strip club the night of his arrest

    Tripp Emmer told police he was drinking illegally at a strip club named Lookers in Alexandria.​Tripp Emmer and a bunch of his hockey-playing buddies got drunk at a strip club on July 10. Then they got nabbed for underage boozing, and managed to help drag Republican Rep. Tom Emmer's drunken dri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Tom Emmer campaign alcohol problems keep getting worse

    Mark Buesgens: Part of a booze problem in the Emmer campaign.​This is starting to look like a pattern. Following state Rep. Mark Buesgen's arrest Saturday on drunken driving charges, Tom Emmer now has to deal with four separate stories involving members and former members of his campaign, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Tom Emmer's former campaign chief Mark Buesgens nabbed for DWI

    Mark Buesgens: Out of the ditch and into trouble.​Republican state Rep. Mark Buesgens tried to drive his car out of a ditch Saturday night and steered right into a pile of trouble, both for himself and Tom Emmer's campaign for governor. A Wright County deputy said a field sobriety test showed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Tom Emmer jabbed for missed votes

    Kelliher and Dayton jabbed for missing votes​Gubernatorial candidates Tom Emmer and Margaret Anderson Kelliher are both taking jabs for missing votes this week at the Legislature. Mark Dayton, one of three candidates vying for the DFL primary, called out Republican-endorsed Emmer this morning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Steve Drazkowski introduces Arizona-style anti-immigrant bill

    No Mexicans need apply, as far as Steve Drazkowski's concerned​He threatened he'd do it, and now he has: Republican state Rep. Steve Drazkowski has introduced a bill in the Minnesota House he says is modeled after the hardline anti-immigration law just passed in Arizona. "The Democrats won't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Twitter backlash: Republicans file ethics complaint over DFL tweets

    Watch what you tweet! One DFLer learned the hard way.

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2005

    Anti-Tax Talk Is Cheap. Education Isn't

    Watch what you tweet! One DFLer learned the hard way.

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