Apr 28, 2011
Ben Golnik is quite a smart man. He helped orchestrate the GOP’s victory in last year’s Senate races. Earlier this year he combined forces with Greg Peppin in a company called P2B Strategies. Yesterday, he launched a tweet tool where people can follow people utilizing...
Apr 28, 2011
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN6) is scheduled to appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. This will one a good opportunity to listen to her rhetoric and hear what she wants to say to the nation. Tune in KMSP Channel 9 at 8:00 am…. This content is for...
Apr 28, 2011
Rep Peggy Scott (R-49A, Andover) has waded into a political quagmire and is proving herself to not be a friend of organized labor. She is the Chief Author of HF 1469 a bill to change the current structure for determining prevailing wages and changes in the definition...
Apr 26, 2011
Prior to the start of the legislative session, the Republican Senate Caucus met and have agreed to support a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage. There is a 2:30 pm press conference scheduled for which other members of the press have speculated incorrectly on...
Apr 25, 2011
It has not started as of yet, but we now understand better the process for removal of state employees appointed by past administrations. We have been the only source discussing the existence of these Republican holdovers and have not understood why they have yet to be...
Apr 14, 2011
We at Checks & Balances pride ourselves on the coverage we give to internal political party activity. This weekend Republican Central Committee members will gather at the Thunderbird Hotel to select the party leadership for 2011-12. Chairman Tony Sutton is...
Apr 14, 2011
Governor Mark Dayton (DFL-MN) told legislators he wanted the entire budget completed before he would take action, but with the Agriculture and Rural Development Omnibus Bill heading to his desk, with early indications he will sign it, this may not be the case. The Ag...
Apr 11, 2011
The members of the House of Representatives ended debate on a number of bills on Thursday morning around 3:30 am. The bill seeing one of most the contentious of the debates being SF760; the Health and Human Services Omnibus Bill. This issue which raised the hackles of...
Apr 11, 2011
This morning on the floor of the Senate, Majority Leader Amy Koch (R-19, Buffalo) named the initial Senate appointees to the respective budget bill conference committees. In the early lists, only four DFLers are sitting on the various spending bill conference...
Apr 5, 2011
Is it only irony or is it blatant hypocrisy to see Republicans take jobs in state government? Turning on TPT’s coverage of the Minnesota House and seeing David Strom, former head of the Minnesota Taxpayers League sitting as a staffer in a House Committee strikes...
