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FREE SPEECH ZONE | SW suburban legislators
Tim O’Brien and Minnesota Progressive Project bloggers Tommy Johnson and Joe Bodell take measure of Representative Steve Simon’s compelling testimony against anti-gay legislation on the current edition of Democratic Visions. The trio of well known, southwest suburban Democrats also put Republican local legislators through the grinder for their bad behavior during the current session.MORE »
Senate rebuffs Pawlenty's health care veto
The Minnesota Senate will meet in session Thursday morning with one big item on its potential agenda: overturning Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto of a bill that would save public health insurance for the poorest Minnesotans.MORE »
Specter switches, making 60 Democrats in Senate — with Franken
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter announced today that he is switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party and will run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010. That means Minnesota’s empty U.S. Senate seat could become the Democrats’ sixtieth — the number needed to break a Republican filibuster.MORE »
Pawlenty hems, haws on if he’ll OK new senator after state high court rules
Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he might not sign an election certificate to seat Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman in the U.S.MORE »
Franken attorney: "I think we are done"
The danger of paper cuts was greater than the chance that Al Franken would lose his 225-vote lead to Norm Coleman today as Minnesota officials ripped open 351 more ballots from last year’s U.S. senate race in front of the state’s election-contest court.MORE »
Coleman faces “serious damage” to political future if contest drags on
Norm Coleman is not going down without a fight. That much is clear from his actions in the wake of this week’s ruling from the three-judge election contest panel that only 400 additional ballots will be considered for inclusion in the final vote tally.MORE »
Ruling further diminishes Coleman’s election contest prospects
Norm Coleman’s already grim prospects for prevailing in the ongoing U.S. Senate contest were dealt another significant blow this afternoon. The three-judge panel hearing the case ruled that only 400 rejected absentee ballots should be considered for inclusion in the final vote tally.MORE »
Clock runs out on Franken-Coleman trial as legal teams’ stars take final shots
The last day of Minnesota’s Senate election trial played out like the closing minutes of a Final Two basketball game. In front of the courtroom’s wooden bleachers packed with fans and reporters, Al Franken and Norm Coleman each gave the ball to the guy on their legal team they figured had the best shot making closing arguments.MORE »
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