The email sent by Rep. Michael Paymar (DFL – 64B, St. Paul) to identify know tobacco lobbyists has met with some reprisals from his colleagues. Rep. Dave Bishop (R – 30B, Rochester) criticized the disparaging comments about the names listed in...
Rep Michael Paymar (DFL–64A, St. Paul) sent around the following e-mail to members of the legislature: Dear Members: I will have a letter ready for your signature this week that will be sent to the Minnesota firms that have contracts will the tobacco industry. Several...
We have simplified the election contest in the city of St. Paul down to a simple calculation: the first two candidates to achieve 8000 votes in the primary will be the likely candidates on the general election ballot. We come to this assessment based on the results...
The endorsement fight for the DFL 4th Congressional District may have been the smoothest ever seen in a multi-candidate field, but that doesn’t mean it is time to rest on one’s laurels. By all indications, that is far from endorsee Rep Betty McCollum’s (DFL-55B,...
If Checks & Balances were giving out an award for Mr Indecisive that title would go to Sen Dick Cohen (DFL-64, St Paul). The reason is that he is now talking about getting back into the 4th Congressional District race. His rationale is that the field is weak and...
