House Minority Leader

Nov 10, 2010

Thissen: Balanced approach vital to budget fix

Nobody expected Rep. Paul Thissen to end up leading the DFL House caucus. Majority Leader Tony Sertich seemed poised to take the speaker's gavel when the Legislature reconvened in January.

Nov 10, 2010

Committee buzz: House GOP tries to juggle geography, seniority

When members of the new House Republican majority met last weekend to pick their top two leaders, they selected a slate dominated by the party's suburban strongholds: Speaker-designate Kurt Zellers of Maple Grove and soon-to-be Majority Leader Matt Dean of Dellwood.

Nov 3, 2010

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.

Jun 29, 2009

Overheard at the Capitol: Dems on Zellers? Personable, sincere, not Tom Emmer

Nobody expected Rep. Paul Thissen to end up leading the DFL House caucus. Majority Leader Tony Sertich seemed poised to take the speaker’s gavel when the Legislature reconvened in January. But that was before last week’s GOP electoral landslide. In the wake of that rout, all assumptions about caucus leadership and the looming legislative session ...