Oct 16, 2017
Supporters of gubernatorial candidate St Paul Mayor Chris Coleman are visibly helping former City Council Member Melvin Carter III (DFL) in his bid to replace Coleman. It is thought the reason for the support is intended to ingratiate Coleman with AFSCME and hopefully...
Oct 16, 2017
There is one benefit of the Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) system and that is the improved quality of voting machines purchased by Ramsey County in 2015. These new machines will be taking a picture of every ballot cast in the St Paul elections and later will be made...
Oct 16, 2017
St Paul Mayoral candidate Elizabeth Dickinson (GR) has resurrected an old campaign mechanism. She may have gotten the idea from the old campaigner Roy Magnuson. They are calling the piece the “Dickinson Dispatch” in it are a series of articles intended to introduce...
Oct 6, 2017
Voters in St Paul are receiving additional information in the St Paul Mayoral race from an Independent Expenditure group called Building a Better St Paul. Since the Supreme Court ruling on Citizen’s United v. FEC (2010) political campaigns have been supported and...
Sep 29, 2017
We have been strong in our criticism of Ranked Choice Voting, and our experience in the way voters are being informed this election is a prime example of the problems with the system. Saint Paul voters are left with little information other than candidates literature...
Sep 13, 2017
Ward One City Council Member and mayoral candidate Dai Thao (DFL) has had the dark cloud removed from his campaign. Yesterday, he was cleared, as we have expected all along, of the allegations of soliciting a bribe, by the Scott County Prosecutor’s office. Deputy...
Sep 13, 2017
The campaign finance reports for the St Paul Mayoral race were due today at 12:00 pm. As of this report, we are posting the information available from the Ramsey County Election’s website. We were on-hand at the office right before it closed and this is the only...
Sep 7, 2017
If the State Supreme Court decides to support Governor Mark Dayton (DFL) in his powers as prescribed in the Minnesota Constitution, they will be acting as strict constructionists. If they side with the legislature they will be acting as judicial activists. The...
Sep 7, 2017
The problem with Ranked Choice Voting is the lack of differentiation between the candidates. The fact each candidate is seeking to be the 2nd choice for voters, after their 1st choice is no longer in the field, is only available if the voter selected someone who fails...
Sep 7, 2017
We learned of the passage of Rick Stafford as many of us now do, on Facebook. The man who was small in stature had a significant impact on party politics both here in Minnesota DFL and at the DNC. He was the first openly gay DFL Party Chair, DNC National Committeeman,...
