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The Capitol Note: MNsure board to hold final pre-launch meeting
The MNsure Board will hold a final pre-launch meeting, which is scheduled to include a progress update from interim CEO Scott Leitz.
Emmer’s out of the gate with big haul
Tom Emmer has established himself as the clear front-runner to replace U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in the 6th Congressional District by raising far more money than his opponents for the GOP nomination.
Politician of the Year: ‘Vote No’ campaigns defied the odds in constitutional referendums
On the night that House Republicans voted to place an amendment prohibiting gay marriage on the ballot in 2012, Sen. Scott Dibble stood outside the chamber and vowed that Minnesota would become the first state in the country to defeat such a proposal.
Defeat of voter ID was team effort
Broad coalition led by TakeAction Minnesota won by making the most of modestly funded drive.
Amendments: From anxiety to elation at ‘Vote No’ parties
Frenetic early-morning celebrations capped an historic Election Day in which Minnesota voters defeated two ballot initiatives that were a hallmark of the GOP-controlled Legislature that swarmed to victory two years ago on a national wave.
Anti-Voter ID amendment group trails in polls but leads in cash
ProtectMyVote.com, the outside spending organization dedicated to passing the Voter ID amendment, has been consistently ahead in the polls, but consistently behind in fundraising compared to its opposition.
Voter ID ballot campaigns struggle
As adversaries in the battle over a proposed same-sex marriage ban continue to raise and move around six-figure sums on a regular basis, the forces arrayed on both sides of the voter photo ID ballot question are going begging.
Amendment groups sit on cash, bide their time
Despite the continuing legal drama surrounding the two constitutional amendments headed for this fall’s ballot, the groups formed to support or defeat the amendments to outlaw gay marriage and mandate voter ID are in something of a holding pattern
DFL third-party and anti-amendment groups still winning the fundraising wars
A trio of DFL third-party groups -- comprised of Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Win Minnesota and the 2012 Fund -- are still significantly out-raising a slew of independent expenditures groups on the right. And in the battle of the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment -- the most high profile fight this cycle and drawing the most donations -- groups opposing the amendment are still pullin[...]
The top 25 Minnesota political donors of the past decade
Matt Entenza and his wife, Lois Quam, aren’t exactly the first names that pop up when Minnesota politicos talk about heavy-hitter political donors.
Minnesota’s top donors skew DFL
DFL candidates and causes have received a disproportionate share of contributions from the state’s biggest political givers over the last decade
VOICES of Conservative Women wants a counterbalance to left-leaning political funds
In May 2009 Jennifer DeJournett, Lisa Belak and a handful of other Republican women from Minnesota attended a seminar in Washington, D.C. focused on the role of women in politics. What they learned was distressing: Virtually all of the advances made by female politicians over the last two decades had occurred on the Democratic side of the aisle.
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