Mar 16, 2020
Minnesota Report On Sunday, the following statement was released by the legislative leadership regarding their response to the Covid-19, coronavirus and its affects on legislative procedures. Statement from House & Senate leaders regarding legislative...
Mar 16, 2020
Minnesota Report On Sunday, Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) declared peacetime emergency and he with Commissioners of Education Mary Catherine Ricker¸ Health Jan Malcolm and Employment and Economic Development Steve Grove held a unusual Sunday Press Conference broadcast...
Mar 16, 2020
Minnesota Report Ever since our inception on December 8, 1995, Check & Balances has encouraged lobbyists and lobbying effort to construct web-based lobbying campaigns. The reason being, another mechanism to express the various points of an organization, group,...
Mar 10, 2020
Minnesota Report As the number of reported cases increases to two the legislature takes action. Yesterday, the State Senate acted quickly on SF3813 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health response planning and preparation appropriation, authored by Sen Jerry...
Mar 10, 2020
Minnesota Report The State Government Finance and Policy and Elections Committee Chair Mary Kiffmeyer (R-30, Big Lake) will hear Sen Mark Koran’s (R-32, North Branch) bill SF3385 Ranked-choice voting local government adoption prohibition on Wednesday evening at 6:00...
Mar 4, 2020
Minnesota Report 9:19 am Michael Bloomberg (D-NY) is out of the Democratic Presidential contest. When people looked at the Vice-President Joe Biden (D) campaign last week, it was on life-support and people were ready to put a fork in it. The field of candidates was...
Mar 4, 2020
Minnesota Report The DFL Party is reporting the allocation of delegates to the DNC Convention, effecting the 75 apportioned and the 10 PLEO’s (Party Leader and Elected Officials). https://www.dfl.org/primary/ Vice-President Joe Biden-38 + 5 PLEO US Sen Bernie...
Mar 4, 2020
National and Minnesota Report When we attended the US Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rally at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium we chewed on the line about receiving money from billionaires as a logical fallacy. It is a both an appeal emotion and an appeal to poverty Billionaires...
Mar 3, 2020
National and Minnesota Report Tonight, it will be hard to fully access the depth of US Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) support in the Primary election, because the results will roll-in sporadically, but we believe watching the early returns will be the best indicator,...
Mar 3, 2020
National and Minnesota Report Last night, US Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stood in center stage at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium as a victor. He came on a prescheduled appearance to challenge US Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on her home turf and because she ended her campaign...
