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DFL Party mounts Wolf hunt in SD 37
Pam Wolf is not easily deterred. She first ran for the Legislature in 2004, losing a House race to incumbent DFL Rep. Connie Bernardy by 13 percentage points. Two years later, Wolf took on DFL Sen. Don Betzold, losing that time by 9 percentage points.
Business PACs spend to defend GOP frosh
The campaign finance reports released last week show that political action committees large and small have been funneling lots of money into legislative races.
GOP Sen. Pam Wolf, author of ‘LIFO’ bill, loses teaching job
Freshman Republican Sen. Pam Wolf, who spent much of her first term at the Capitol working to repeal a seniority-based teacher layoff law, was one of 29 teachers in Anoka County that recently lost their job.
Dayton vetoes bill to repeal LIFO
As promised, Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed a key GOP education bill to repeal the state's so-called "last in, first out" law, which protects teachers with the most seniority when school districts are hit with layoffs.
Redistricting pitted a disproportionate number of female legislators against their male counterparts
It was one of those votes no one wanted to take. The state’s new maps dropped DFL senators and allies John Marty and Mary Jo McGuire into Senate District 66, forcing activists in the area to pick between them at a recent endorsing convention.
Former Rep. Alice Johnson to run for state Senate
Johnson will challenge first-term GOP Sen. Pam Wolf, who in 2010 won in the current Senate District 51 with more than 52 percent of the vote.
Marty/McGuire contest, 14-person scrum in District 59 among races to be settled
Minneapolis DFLers lost another legislator last weekend. Freshman Rep. Marion Greene, who replaced former DFL House Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the chamber, fell in an endorsement contest against DFL House colleague Frank Hornstein.
LIFO repeal appears headed for veto
A year after Republican legislators joined forces with DFL Gov. Mark Dayton to enact changes to state education policy, the GOP’s 2012 K-12 agenda is foundering.
Senate approves ‘Last In, First Out’
A bipartisan majority voted to send the bill to conference committee. Teachers have blasted the bill as an attack on tenure.
Legislative map: All shook up
The most anticipated political event of the year at the Capitol — the unveiling of court-drawn state legislative and congressional districts that will be used for the next decade — arrived at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
DFL files campaign finance complaint against Sviggum, 15 senators
The complaint filed with the Office of Administrative Hearings says Senate Republicans used public funds to print partisan literature that was distributed at Republican precinct caucuses last week. State law prohibits using taxpayer money for any campaign purposes.
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