Senate District 11 Special Election Update 01/09/2019

Minnesota Report Last night, the Republican Senate District 11 Central Committee met and endorsed Rep Jason Rarick (R-11B, Pine City) for the Senate 11 seat with 64%. This also cleared the field of opposition candidates, because his challengers are withdrawing their...

Other Convention Related Items

The contest for the positions on the Democratic National Committee should prove to be interesting especially in the contest for National Committeeman. There is an interesting competition underway between the current incumbents, Ken McGinnis and Greg Knutson and two...

Union Political Organizing

Checks & Balances has been hearing about a Union organizing project in Anoka County for some time and now we are starting to see signs of real activity. The Anoka 2000 Project was started in response to the significant Union support seen in 1998 for Jesse Ventura...