Chief Justice Blatz, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. Taking this oath — and receiving this trust — is a true honor for which I am very grateful. I’d like to thank my family for their love and support. Thank you to Governor-Elect Pawlenty...
It is an honor to address you today, once again as Minnesota’s Secretary of State. I want to begin by thanking my husband, for his support and sacrifice (we’ve been married for 35 years as of today, by the way), my children for understanding the importance of being...
A few weeks after I was born, a young president stood in the bright sunshine of a Washington January afternoon and he said these words: “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation...
The Tim Pawlenty (R) inauguration is the start of a new Administration facing a steep budget deficit, but ripe with promise. In his speech, Pawlenty laid out a broad set of principles and goals long on rhetoric and short on specifics. The even only had one hitch and...
Thank you, Chief Justice Blatz. And it is an honor and a privilege to serve the people of Minnesota. It is an honor to follow in the footsteps of former State Auditors as Governor Arne Carlson, Senator Mark Dayton and Judi Dutcher. Each of them made significant and...
