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2010 campaign finance reports: State lege races
Today's 2010 campaign finance reports indicate some state legislative races were spendy affairs. We survey some of the marquee races.
Senate Republicans release committee rosters
Lobbyists who have been waiting on pins and needles for the House and Senate to release their committee rosters got an early holiday present on Wednesday, when the Senate GOP sent out a final list of Republican names that will make up the majority in the chamber's 16 committees next year.
This old house: extreme falling-down edition
Minnesota's Capitol is crumbling - a fact that won't change any time soon - while this month brought more bad news for the 105-year-old building.
Meet the freshmen: Senate GOP, part II
As the Minnesota Legislature prepares for a transition that will see 60 freshmen join the rolls of the state Senate and House, PIM continues with our series of post-election portraits of the 2011 class. In this latest edition, we look at seven more members of the incoming Senate Republican majority.
Senate committee buzz: GOP signals right turn
The restructuring of the caucus and its chairs by a new leadership team is widely expected to produce a decidedly conservative shift on the part of Senate Republicans, who in recent years have built a more centrist track record than their increasingly conservative House colleagues.
How the lege was won
In many cases, DFLers simply got caught in an undertow in districts that are fundamentally split in their political allegiances; in some, like rural Senate District 16, they handed back control of districts no one had expected them to win in the first place; in others, it appears, they failed to take steps to protect incumbents who faced discernible pockets of Republican opposition.
Legislature sees a DFL drubbing for the ages
Republicans pummeled DFLers in the suburbs and greater Minnesota on Tuesday night to take control of both chambers of the Legislature for the first time since the modern partisan era started in the early 1970s.
Legislative candidates begin final push
Political action committees and legislative caucuses have already done mailings assailing the opposition. But now that the campaign has entered the final month, the rough-and-tumble race for the Legislature is kicking into high gear.
Would trimmed DFL majority mean fewer committees? Probably not
Many Capitol habitués with and without election certificates complain that the committee structure of recent years has created a more frenzied process that stretches legislators too thin and is too hard for lobbyists to follow.
Capitol restoration funding an issue
Tuesday’s 2010 campaign finance reports demonstrate that some state legislative races were spendy affairs. While direct spending by campaigns reflects only a portion of the total spent in an election year, campaign figures are a leading indicator of political competition. The following includes some of the Legislature’s marquee races. (Note: Amount of money raised includes ...
MN's DFL party's success at the polls surprises some
Tuesday’s 2010 campaign finance reports demonstrate that some state legislative races were spendy affairs. While direct spending by campaigns reflects only a portion of the total spent in an election year, campaign figures are a leading indicator of political competition. The following includes some of the Legislature’s marquee races. (Note: Amount of money raised includes ...
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