Anne Nolan formally announced her bid for Minnesota’s 6th-district House seat on March 9. The following Monday, she was still her own campaign manager and press secretary, a one-woman-show without an official website. This level of organization places her in a very different league from her competition: Rep. Michele Bachmann, the incumbent and former presidential candidate seeking a fourth term.
The morning after his three-state sweep of Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, Rick Santorum is finally getting a bit of credit. But for a guy who’s now won more nominating contests than any other Republican presidential candidate (if you charitably count Missouri’s meaningless pageant), Santorum stands to reap few rewards for his efforts. Botched counts, party rules [...]
For the candidates vying to claw their way back into the Republican nominating fight, there are no symbolic victories. But Rick Santorum’s clean sweep of three non-binding contests in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado on Tuesday night was nonetheless a major triumph that bolstered his case to be the chief conservative challenger to front runner Mitt Romney and revived lingering questions about Romney’s appeal to the party’s base.
It’s drawn none of the hype lavished on the early GOP primaries, but more delegates are technically on the table in the Tuesday, Feb. 7, nominating contests than on any other day so far this cycle. For the first time, the spotlight will be shared among multiple states, when Republican voters head out to caucus [...]
“We will not saddle our children and grandchildren with mounds of debts, with promises for funding levels that will not be there in the future,” said the Republican House Speaker, publicly feuding with the Democratic executive over how best to trim yawning deficits. “This is debt that they can’t afford. It’s debt that we can’t [...]
Adam Serwer writes today about a state mortgage program set up in Minnesota during Tim Pawlenty’s tenure that structured loans to avoid interest payments barred under Islamic law. He speculates it could become a problem for the ambitious Pawlenty among conservatives who “believe Sharia-compliant finance is part of a ‘stealth jihad’ to subvert the Constitution.” [...]
For presumed GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, health care is a signature cause. The former Minnesota governor hopes to use the topic against opponent Mitt Romney, who supported health reform in Massachusetts similar to the national plan. Pawlenty has also garnered attention by spearheading the effort to resist the Affordable Care Act on the state [...]
Today, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who’s apparently trying to build GOP party cred by bucking the Affordable Care Act, said he will take about $260 million in Medicaid funds approved by the Obama Administration. Last week, Pawlenty signed an executive order banning state agencies from applying for grant funding provided by the new law. This [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty hasn’t announced he’s running for president, but his recent actions regarding health care reform certainly seem to suggest he is. Today, the governor signed an executive order prohibiting state offices from applying for voluntary federal grant programs created by the Affordable Care Act – unless they get permission from the governor’s [...]
Today’s Tuesday and that means voting. Colorado, Connecticut and Minnesota are holding primaries and Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial races holds a run off. By tonight we’ll know if another incumbent scalp, that of Colorado’s Michael Bennet, has been claimed or if the throw-the-bums-out mentality this cycle is abating somewhat. Here’s a primer on today’s fun from [...]
