The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board has released the pre-primary fundraising data for candidates across Minnesota. Here are the reports from some of the Central Minnesota races that I have been following or keeping an eye on…

Yesterday, in another episode of Gross Inaccuracies, I wrote about a post by Gary Gross that turns out to be a complete pack of lies. That didn’t stop Gross from repeating the lies and then blaming President Obama for the imaginary incident. This morning I clicked on the post to discover that rather than issue [...]

Tarryl Clark, who represents Minnesota Senate District 15, gives her final speech on the floor of the Minnesota Senate. She is leaving the seat to run for congress against Michele Bachmann.

I went to my Senate District 15 Convention today as a delegate from the February 2nd caucuses.

Tonight I got word that St. Cloud School Board member, Bruce Hentges, will be running as a DFLer to replace Tarryl Clark in Senate District 15.  At a caucus convener training Hentges announced that he is running because he believes he “can provide a service to the residents of Senate District 15 at the state [...]

Well that didn’t take long. Only days ago I felt the need to write a post agreeing with local conservative, King Banaian, that the rhetoric of an SCSU Professor calling those people who voted for Michele Bachmann racist because some idiot was putting up disgusting posters of Muslims around St. Cloud. Now I find myself [...]

As I was perusing my twitter stream I noticed a question posed by local St. Cloud tweeter, Judy C. Foster. A simple question, she asks who the DFL should run to replace Tarryl Clark in Senate District 15. I haven’t really thought a lot about this race and I haven’t really heard any names floating [...]

With the advent of twitter has come an interesting new dynamic between those in public office and those whom they serve. For those elected officials using twitter we have what amounts to an instant messaging service between us and them or at the very least to someone close to them. Each official uses the service [...]

A couple of weeks ago over at Bluestem Prairie, Sally Jo Sorensen took a look at potential birtherism within the ranks of the Republican Party in the 6th Congressional District. In particular, Sorensen questioned whether a member of the Executive Committee here in SD15, Leo Pusateri, was in fact a birther. I deciding to spend [...]

Senator Tarryl Clark makes clear this week that the budget put forward by the Senate DFL is the more responsible method for dealing with the current budget crisis facing the state. Through relatively deep cuts across the board and through increased taxes, the Senate plan leaves no one untouched while the plan laid out by [...]

In her almost daily youtube update today, Assistant Majority Leader Tarryl Clark provided some pointed criticism of Tim Pawlenty and his continued media onslaught against the Obama Administration while at the same time ignoring many of the problems we have here in Minnesota. In an email Clark sent out yesterday, she touts the Senate budget [...]

Senator Tarryl Clark has created a youtube page and will be providing legislative updates via this account. In her first update she addresses the recent idea she and Representative Haws and Hosch put forward to combine three counties into one large county. Also, in Tarryl Clark news, there is an LTE in the St. Cloud [...]

Earlier this week we learned that conservative blogger, Leo Pusateri, was elected as secretary of the Senate District 15 Republican Party: Dan Ochsner was elected to be the HD-15A vice-chair while Barbara Banaian, King’s wife, was elected to be the HD-15B vice-chair. Leo Pusateri is our new secretary. Darlene Thompson was re-elected to a third [...]

A Tarryl Clark press release yesterday puts our current economic situation into a weather related analogy: When it comes to the state’s finances, we are in the first day of the storm. This storm has already gone from rain to sleet and ice to snow. The snow is falling and it’s going to keep coming [...]

While some might accuse me of having an unhealthy obsession with taking down Michele Bachmann, I have always tried to be intellectually honest in my criticism. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of local right wing echo chamber, Gary Gross. His obsession is DFL Senator Tarryl Clark and he will advance any meme no matter [...]

H/T to Larry Schumacher at his blog, Political Quarry: Joanne Dorsher (DFL), candidate for House District 15A against Steve Gottwalt, will be teaming up with Tarryl Clark (DFL) for a discussion about education at Caribou Coffee this Saturday (8 am). I have some things going on this weekend but I am going to make every [...]

A couple days ago I reported on the first candidate, Alison Weaver Krueger, to throw her hat in the ring for the open Senate District 16 seat. I sent off an email to Krueger but she has not returned that email. Now, a second Republican has filed for the open seat: Much like Mrs. Krueger, [...]

Last night I headed over to Waite Park for the Senate District 15 DFL Picnic in the Park. In between eating some delicious food, I was able to get some video of our House candidates as well as Anna Richey from the Tinklenberg Campaign. Joanne Dorsher spoke to use about her experiences on the school [...]

Over in Senate District 14, the DFL endorsed Larry Hosch and Rob Jacobs for the Minnesota House of Representatives. For Jacobs, it took two ballots to achieve the required amount of support for the endorsement while Hosch cruised to a unanimous endorsement. Having met both these men, I can say with no uncertainty that they [...]

I will have some more information regarding the District 15 Convention (with corresponding youtubing) but for now there is only time for a quick update. From two fairly reliable sources, I can say with some certainty that Elwyn Tinklenberg comes out of this convention with 11 committed delegates while Bob Olson comes out with 2 [...]

Today, Tarryl Clark put out a press release discussing the budget shortfall and the proposal put forward by Governor Pawlenty. While she agrees with Pawlenty about the need to close loopholes and cut administrative costs, she also takes him to task for once again putting the bulk of the difference onto the backs of students [...]

Tarryl Clark put out a press release (in italics below) just recently discussing the current economic outlook in Minnesota and advocating for an increase in “green” jobs. Jobs in renewable energy A useful element in rebuilding Minnesota’s economy Minnesota’s economy isn’t doing too well these days. Our state lost 23,000 jobs in the last half [...]

It takes a special kind of nerd to get excited about a public forum in which community members have the opportunity to share their stories and demand changes in our current health care system. Well, I happened to be that nerd sitting in the Whitney Senior Center this evening listening to ordinary citizens discuss with [...]

Tonight I will be attending a listening session on Health Care hosted by Tarryl Clark and Jon Marty. If you are unable to attend you can check back later and I will try to put up some video of tonight. Senators to hold Community Listening Session in St. Cloud on Affordable Health Care for all [...]