The Politics of Fear and Familiarity

Our current state of political affairs is influenced by a fear factor. The fears are what may be lost as the economy changes, the population changes and what is familiar become foreign. As people age, they grow more resistant to change, but as the world ages, change...

DFL Party Scores Victory for Radinovich, But is There Enough Time?

The Minnesota DFL Party went to court on behalf of Congressional District candidate Joe Radinovich (DFL-MN08) petitioned the for the release of emails sent and received by St Louis County Commissioner and Congressional District Candidate Pete Stauber (R-MN08) from his...

A Retrospective View on Senate District 13

One of the most significant elections this year is the Special Election in Senate District 13 because it will determine the majority in the State Senate which is currently tied at 33-33 Republican majority. Stearns County Commissioner Joe Perske (DFL-13) is in the...

DFL Support Withdrawn from Anoka County Board Candidate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...

First Paid Political Advertisement Ran Here 21 Years Ago

There were a number of firsts that occurred in the 1998 Governor’s race besides the My Three Sons Primary and the election of third-party candidate Jesse Ventura, In 1997, the Ted Mondale for Governor campaign took out, what is known as the First Paid Political...