Jun 27, 2018
Labor Unions have been preparing for the inevitability that they will lose a substantial amount for their funding for political organizing and elections. Today, the US Supreme Court ruled on a 5-4 decision that employees cannot be compelled to pay union fees as a...
Jun 27, 2018
The Supreme Court’s upholding of Donald J Trump’s Travel Ban, which is now the law of the land, bans travel from five Muslim countries, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Libya, and Somalia, along with Venezuela and North Korea. It will likely further incent the opposition to...
Jun 27, 2018
As we listen to the migration problems in Europe where immigrants from war-torn countries are overloading boats to cross the Mediterranean Sea and the debate about protection of the southern borders from Donald J Trump (R) and Republicans an interesting thought comes...
Jun 19, 2018
Now that the state conventions are over, the field of candidates is set and the amounts of money they have to start with is known, it helps shape the next eight weeks until the Primary August 14th. As many expected the Party Endorsed candidates are significantly less...
Jun 17, 2018
5:00 pm Omar won the endorsement. 2nd Ballot Votes % Omar 123 68.33% Torres Ray 44 24.44% No Endorsement 13 7.22% Total Votes Cast 180 4:29 pm 1st Ballot Votes % Drake Dropped Omar 107 54.87% Torres Ray 59 30.26% No Endorsement 29 14.87% Total Votes Cast 195 We are...
Jun 16, 2018
Former Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher (D-MN05) announced this morning on her Congressional Candidacy Facebook page, she will not be attending tomorrow’s DFL CD05 Special Endorsing Convention. “As an organizer who learned from the late-Senator Paul Wellstone,...
Jun 15, 2018
An understanding of CD05 warrants a look back at the Primary of 2006. When Congressman Martin Olav Sabo (D-MN05) decided not seek reelection after 14 terms of office a field of seven candidates emerged to replace him. After a successful endorsement battle Rep Keith...
Jun 14, 2018
Whenever the word “Special” is used in politics people should be put on notice. Special is now becoming one of those words whose meaning has changed to the point where it is almost opposite of what it was originally intended. As people try to co-opt words and try to...
Jun 14, 2018
The MN Voters Alliance prevailed in the question to maintain freedom of speech privileges extended into the polling place in their case MN Voters Alliance v. Mansky. The efforts by Andy Cilek, Dan McGrath (The Republican one), Sue Jeffers, and Erick Kaardal against...
Jun 6, 2018
On Friday night at the DFL Convention in Rochester Attorney General candidate Matt Pelikan (DFL-MN) supporters were openly discussing the possibility of Attorney General Lori Swanson (DFL-MN) filing for Governor instead of AG. During the nominations process Swanson...
