Emmer adds former Coleman staffer to communications team
Tom Emmer's gubernatorial campaign has a new head of media operations. Public relations executive Carl Kuhl recently joined team Emmer as communications director.
View ArticleEmmer’s uncompromising politics, style have alienated some House GOP colleagues
Emmer, now the GOP nominee for governor of Minnesota, has earned a reputation over his three terms at the Legislature as an abrasive lawmaker, even with members of his own caucus.
View ArticleTea Party activism: MIA in MN?
On a Saturday afternoon in July, a dozen or so locals sat under a gazebo in Central Park in downtown North Branch. "Wanted: Karl Marx" posters were stapled to the gazebo, and a welcome sign and a...
View ArticleEmmer struggling in greater Minnesota
A late September poll from the Star Tribune found Emmer and Dayton running neck-and-neck in outstate Minnesota with 35 percent apiece, but a mid October KSTP/SurveyUSA poll put Dayton ahead in all...
View ArticleMarriage fight heats up suburban races
It was one of the first questions a voter asked of two suburban Minnesota House candidates at a recent forum: How were they planning to vote on the two proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot...
View ArticleGay marriage poses dilemma for GOP
For Branden Petersen, the past week has been, in his words, “unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.” It all started when the 27-year-old Republican senator from Andover told the Star Tribune...
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