Around convention time in the spring, Senate Minority Leader Dave Senjem, R-Rochester, boasted that his caucus would retake the chamber’s majority in November. Considering Senate Republicans’ 38-year stranglehold on minority status, and the 13 seats that his troops will need to gain to make good on the pledge, it amounts to a tall order.

Embattled state Sen. Satveer Chaudhary's fortunes took another turn for the worse with a report this morning uncovering a massive unpaid tax bill. Chaudhary said he's worked out an agreement with the IRS to pay the taxes.

In its rundown of 2010 state legislative races, the national magazine Governing predicts the DFL is poised to retain control of both houses of the Minnesota Legislature. But the state-by-state analysis leaves open the possibility for the GOP to return to power, particularly in the House.

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The power divide between DFLers and Republicans in the Minnesota House may look daunting on its face, but not so long ago the GOP held a similarly imposing majority.

The Voices of Conservative Women political action committee (VOICESPAC), based in Maple Grove, has endorsed eight candidates for the Minnesota state Legislature, three in the Senate and five in the House.

On Monday night, DFLers in Senate District 50 took away their endorsement of Sen. Satveer Chaudhary. He says he'll run in the August 10 primary against the candidate now endorsed in his place, former state Rep. Barb Goodwin.

Former state Rep. Barb Goodwin said during an Almanac interview she won't campaign in the Senate District 50 DFL primary if the incumbent Sen. Satveer Chaudhary holds on to his endorsement. SD 50 DFLers will meet Monday to consider revoking Chaudhary's endorsement over a controversy in which the three-term senator had special fishing regulations inserted into legislation that apply to a lake where he owns a cabin.

Minnesota state Rep. David Dill, who has suffered from kidney disease for more than four decades, expects to undergo a kidney transplant soon, according to a report on Timberjay.com.

The differences between the Republican and DFL gubernatorial candidates are so divergent when it comes to taxation issues that the conservative Taxpayers League of Minnesota is opting to focus on legislative races instead.