DFL Support Withdrawn from Anoka County Board Candidate

Infrequently, candidates receive DFL support outside of Hennepin, Ramsey and St Louis counties. This election both  Anoka County Board seat 4 candidates, Sean Broom (DFL) and Mandy Meisner (DFL), were given letters of support from the Anoka County DFL. On October...

Served By the Same Attorney

Here is an interesting side note. Both Keith Ellison (DFL-MN05) and his replacement Rep Ilhan Omar (DFL-60B, Minneapolis) have the same divorce attorney Carla Kjellberg. Guess Michael Avenatti wasn’t available or wouldn’t take the case.  ...

Minnesota: That Was Then This Is Now. (1978 & 2018)

The last time Minnesota had two US Senate seats up for consideration was in 1978. The election widely referred to as the Minnesota Massacre, because of the long-standing victories by the DFL Party candidates for offices up and down the ticket came to a crashing halt....

Calling Balls & Strikes on Campaign Ads

With the World Series just getting underway we thought the metaphor apt because if media outlets truly did call campaign ads correctly, then, ones that fell below a certain level would be called out, or a clarifier would be displayed on each ad run on that particular...