With Brodkorb gone, new GOP Senate style emerges
The dust-up over the state Senate Republicans’ distribution of pamphlets at caucuses, while not Watergate, has allowed the DFL to draw the first blood of the legislative session.
Minnesota is in the midst of redrawing its legislative and congressional districts.
This begins as a partisan process, with representatives of the state DFL and GOP submitting plans that they hope will give an edge to their party in the next elections.
Check out our interactive where you can view the DFL and GOP proposed plans layered onto demographic maps. When the districts are finalized by the courts next week, we’ll post those, too.
I’m not sure what it would serve to talk openly about what happened, not the people who sent me here, the people whom I work with, and my family.
It involves people who didn’t put their names on a ballot, and I’m just never going to talk about that.
Every phrase of this run-on sentence was spoken by Newt Gingrich in the debate last night.
After Bachmann’s exit, nomination schedule might put Minnesota caucuses in the spotlight
Minnesotans caucus on Feb. 7. In most years, the state’s caucuses have received little attention because they either were held late or were overshadowed by bigger primaries.
But this time around, Minnesota pops up seventh on the list of states in the nomination process.
An alternative take on last week’s scandal, from MinnPost web editor Corey Anderson.
Print headlines - hilarious! (Hat tip: Practical Obscurity)
Sources: Amy Koch Had Inappropriate Relationship With Senate Staffer
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch resigned her post Thursday after she was confronted by GOP Senate leaders about allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a Senate staffer, according to high level State Capitol sources.
If allegations are true, the GOP has some big hurdles ahead.
Michele Bachmann tried to inject herself into Tuesday night’s debate as she continues to slip in the polls. Here, she goes the grade-school route, hoping to get Anderson Cooper’s attention during a moment of crosstalk.
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Romney's foreign policy message: God is on our side
The Romney message boiled down to this: Obama, “feckless;” America, great and beloved by all right-thinking nations; God, on our side; the rest of the world, lucky to have us, unless they piss us off, in which case we might just have to kill them.
But the TRAIN Act is, if nothing else, predictive of things to come from Congress, and leads one to ask again the question: Is the vote for loosening regulation of polluters a vote against children’s health?
After taking into account all the facts, it would seem the answer is, regrettably, yes.
“Michele Bachmann, meanwhile, was lost in the fray. The Minnesota Congresswoman, who’s seen her support dwindle since her Iowa straw poll victory six weeks ago, fielded only half a dozen questions over the course of the two-hour debate, at one point interrupting the moderators to make a point after a long period of silence.”
- Devin Henry
Six ways of decoding Obama’s tax-increase-deficit-reduction speech
“For political-horserace lovers, it’s important to note that now Obama is adopting a version of the Republican definition of ‘compromise.’ He’s given up on the adult-in-the-room approach, which wasn’t leading to much progress on the things he cared about and was making him look like ineffectual.”
Congressman Keith Ellison responded to our story about Reince Priebus, and started quite the discussion on Twitter.
