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In Ward 5, incumbent Jeremiah Ellison prevailed over a Chamber-backed MAGA/forced-birther in North Minneapolis. In Ward 7, if the younger anti-stadium subsidy candidate Katie Cashman defeated her realtor/landlord opponent in a highly competitive race....
by hatch2006
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 01:14 PM PST
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I retired as a blogger late in the George W. Bush administration. I came out of retirement yesterday to provide a rundown on the stakes in today’s Minneapolis City Council elections. Here are the races to watch. Current Minneapolis Council makeup Wards...
by hatch2006
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 06:03 AM PST
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Tomorrow is City Election Day in Minneapolis. All 13 wards are on the ballot in a first-of-its-kind election. After serving a two-year term since 2021, the city made modest revisions to the ward maps, keeping most of the same neighborhood, political,...
by hatch2006
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on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 05:22 PM PST
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With less than a month until the Midterm Elections, Jeanne Hendricks looks ahead with confidence given the impressive list of endorsements at her back. While these endorsements vary widely in nature, they all have one thing in common: Supporting Jeanne...
by hendricks2022
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on Thu Oct 20, 2022 at 07:01 AM PDT
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Minneapolis Star Tribune: (Democratic) Gov. Tim Walz tests positive for COVID. The governor, his wife and son are in quarantine. His son, who is in ninth grade, tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, Walz's spokeswoman said. He and his wife Gwen took...
by A Citizen
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on Tue Dec 21, 2021 at 09:24 AM PST
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For years, disability advocates have worked to try and change a long-standing policy that allowed the employment of disabled workers at sub-minimum wages. The use of sub-minimum wages was offensive on many grounds, not the least of which is that it in...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 08:51 AM PDT
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MN-Sen Amy Klobuchar’s name has whispered around as a potential Biden administration figure, perhaps a cabinet member (AG would be a nice fit), although she is personally downplaying any discussion about it. The MN-GOP held control of the...
by Canid Micturate
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on Tue Nov 17, 2020 at 10:59 AM PST
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Like many Democrats, I am worn out and disgusted by the Senate Impeachment trial, grinding to a venial halt. The Republican Senators collectively put their fingers in their ears and cry lalalala, I don’t hear you as they refuse to actually hold a trial...
by murrayewv
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on Fri Jan 31, 2020 at 06:51 AM PST
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GOP legislators won’t represent rural minorities, so big city and rural dems are! It’s a nice fall Saturday in Worthington, a majority-minority Minnesota meatpacking town. Despite the nice weather outside, the church cafeteria is full of local minority...
by SassyDemocrat
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on Sat Nov 02, 2019 at 12:43 PM PDT
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While back I wrote about the GOP’s scheme to turn Minnesota red by organizing in rural areas, and I had to admit that they had a workable plan… But was the GOP serious? Since then the GOP even though we’re over a year out from the 2020 elections has...
by dyna
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on Mon Sep 23, 2019 at 11:33 AM PDT
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Half the fields out here are usually corn and the other half soy beans, flipped each year in an attempt at crop rotation aided by hefty helpings of nitrogen. In this spring of wet fields and Trump induced low bean prices mosta the corn got planted and...
by dyna
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on Wed Aug 07, 2019 at 08:28 PM PDT
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What can we learn about elections from Stacey Abrams? A talk in Minneapolis explores lessons learned On November 16, the hopes of Democrats in Georgia (and around the country) were dashed when Stacey Abrams ended her bid for governor—announcing in a speech that, while she wasn’t conceding the race, she acknowledged that Republican Brian Kemp would...
by Kelly Macias
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on Wed Dec 05, 2018 at 10:04 AM PST
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And online fundraising, and voter reg on the rez for the 2020 cycle too!
CD7 DFL Outreach Officers report for November 2018:
It’s almost over… For a few months at least!
The election is less than a week away and the pollsters and...
by dyna
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 07:00 PM PDT
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It’s the last weekend before the election and your e-mail and feeds are filling with requests for you to campaign for too many candidates in too many places. Problem is there’s only one of you and you gotta sleep and maybe look after family and work...
by dyna
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on Tue Oct 30, 2018 at 05:46 PM PDT
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Beneath the high profile races for congress or governor is where the real battles for long term control of the government are waged, a fact the republicans took advantage of by taking control of redistricting and gerrymandering the country. We need...
by dyna
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on Fri Oct 19, 2018 at 06:48 PM PDT
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The republican have a problem: They’re really a minority party, and if every eligible voter gets to vote and their votes get counted, they lose. That’s why they lost the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections. But they’ve managed to...
by dyna
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on Mon Oct 15, 2018 at 07:19 PM PDT
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(crossposted from my Sassy Democrat blog.)
We democrats brought ourselves to the brink of permanent minority party status by competing in politics without first reading the rulebook. In politics the rulebook is the constitution, which grants...
by dyna
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on Fri Oct 12, 2018 at 07:11 PM PDT
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When Senate Republicans teamed up with Brett Kavanaugh to turn a Supreme Court confirmation into a political battle, it set the tone for the rest of the party. The GOP’s lost any claim it might have had to abiding by legal ethics. The latest...
by RebeccaPilarBuckwalterPoza
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on Fri Oct 12, 2018 at 01:42 PM PDT
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At a candidate forum in Rochester, Minnesota this past Monday, a state representative running for re-election literally grabbed the shared microphone out of the hands of his female opponent, drawing audible gasps from the audience. State Rep Duane...
by FlannelGuy
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on Wed Oct 10, 2018 at 06:27 AM PDT
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Been blogging since 2012 on auto, motorcycle, and logistics issues over at my Gearhead Grrrl blog. Cut my teach in political writing over at the old democrats.com then moved over to Kos for the Dean campaign and have been their ever since. Used to make...
by dyna
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on Tue Oct 09, 2018 at 08:49 PM PDT
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