(Video) Anti-abortion activist challenging Ellison launches anti-Islam ads
Gary Boisclair, an anti-abortion activist running in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District as a Democrat, launched an anti-Islam ad last weekend. Boisclair works for the Society for Truth and...
View ArticleMinnesota Senators Franken and Klobuchar vote to repeal DOMA
Minnesota Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar voted in a Senate committee hearing Thursday to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Both testified that DOMA hurts same-sex couples who are legally...
View ArticlePolling on marriage amendment fluctuates wildly a year from vote
Four polls have been released this week showing different results among Minnesota’s electorate a year before the the 2012 vote on the controversial amendment to add a ban on same-sex marriage to the...
View ArticleBachmann interrupted by Occupy Wall Street activists in South Carolina
Source: Still from an MSNBC video of the event. During Michele Bachmann’s unveiling of her foreign policy plans in South Carolina, the presidential candidate was protested by Occupy Wall Street...
View ArticleSierra Club comes out against anti-gay marriage amendment
The North Star chapter of the Sierra Club is the latest statewide group to come out against a 2012 ballot question that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. The...
View ArticleBachmann’s campaign manager says CBS employee suppressed conservative message
Michele Bachmann’s campaign and CBS News clashed over the weekend when her campaign was accidentally included on an email chain with CBS News’ John Dickerson explaining that Bachmann would not get as...
View Article(Video) Bachmann lashes out at opponents with ‘No Surprises’ campaign
Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign released a video this weekend targeting virtually all of the Republican presidential front-runners for flip-flopping. The “No Surprises” campaign promises that...
View ArticleWalz bill to curb congressional insider trading gets national attention
A little-noticed bill by Rep. Tim Walz is gaining national attention this week after CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an expose on insider training by members of Congress. Walz, along with Rep. Louise Slaughter...
View ArticleClaims that LGBT community harassed same-sex marriage opponents not supported...
Photo: Opponents of Proposition 8 in California protest. Source: Dannyman, Flickr The Minnesota for Marriage coalition, a group that is is urging voters to pass a constitutional amendment banning...
View ArticleSeveral members of Minnesota delegation are millionaires, none are the 1 percent
Though none qualify as the “one percent,” at least three of Minnesota’s members of Congress are millionaires, a study by the Center for Responsive Politics released on Tuesday shows. The study averaged...
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