The Bachmann campaign is going around warning people that recent legislation passed by Congress to save the jobs of teachers will ultimately be, in her words “laundered,” by those teachers to their respective unions. Her opponent, Tarryl Clark, has jumped on these offensive remarks with a new web ad featuring teachers in the district and [...]

Senator Franken speaks out in favor of net neutrality which would keep the internet free and open to all who use it.

A couple months ago I ran across a post from the conservative Minnesota blog, True North, that I decided to bookmark. The post, titled “Obama Admits He Is A Muslim,” basically chastises the media for not calling out Barack Obama as a Muslim.

Last week I wrote about a meeting at which Representative Steve Gottwalt lied right into my camera about his voting record on recent Green Acres changes and fixes. Mr. Gottwalt contended that he had opposed all efforts by the “DFL majority” to make these changes. Yet, when I checked into the voting record it was [...]

I attended a Republican event last week which was advertised as a “town-hall meeting” on changes made to the program known as Green Acres. The event was well attended as local farmers and property owners have legitimate concerns about changes to the program which will take effect in 2013. The biggest concern being that their [...]

Congressman Tim Walz speaks to the MN Farmers Union as its endorsed candidate for the 1st Congressional District.

Full video from The Uptake of Farmfest debate between Minnesota Congressional candidates.

A few days ago I reported that Tim Tingelstad, Republican endorsed judge for the Minnesota Supreme Court, is holding a fundraising event at a church in Bemidji, Minnesota.

In another literature piece from the Entenza for Governor Campaign, Tom Emmer is portrayed alongside Sarah Palin with “Seriously?” prominently displayed above their pictures. Emmer is quoted as saying that Palin is the “gold standard” and Entenza hopes that this connection to the 1/2 term Alaska Governor will be as toxic in Minnesota as it [...]

Matt Entenza, in his quest to win the DFL endorsement, is hitting Republican endorsed candidate Tom Emmer hard in a mailer received today. Rather than hit his DFL opponents directly, Entenza takes shots at Emmer and explains that he is the only candidate who can stand up to the Republican. Entenza quotes Emmer from a [...]

One of the candidates vying for a position on the Minnesota Supreme Court may be defying laws that prohibit churches from intervening in political campaigns. Tim Tingelstad, an extremely conservative court candidate who appears to have connections with groups who deny all existence of the separation of church and state is planning to have a [...]

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…

Talking Points Memo interviews Tarryl Clark at Netroots Nation Convention.

The Entenza for Governor Campaign is out with a new television ad touting his opposition to “No Child Left Behind” and promising to end Minnesota participation in the program.

Al Franken talks about the importance of the internet and citizen journalism during his ’08 election recount.

Tarryl Clark speaks at the Netroots Convention held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Earlier this morning I posted a story about Republican candidate, Scott Newman, who responded to a question about protecting special education funding by wondering out loud if we can really afford to teach special needs children in the first place. In the process, I emailed both campaigns in order to get comment. The Kimball Campaign [...]

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 [...]

Scott Newman, Republican endorsed candidate for the open state senate seat in SD-18 attended a debate back in February with the rest of the Republican candidates at the time. The event was sponsored by the ultra conservative organization known as Camp America Grassroots who you may remember as the organization that doesn’t know the difference [...]

Tarryl Clark, the Democratic candidate challenging Michele Bachmann in the 6th District of Minnesota, spoke to The Uptake at the annual Netroots Conference.

In 2008, Lisa Fobbe (DFL) was able to win the open state senate seat vacated by Betsy Wergin. Her win was due in no small part to the write in candidacy of conservative wife abuser, Mark Olson, that split the Republican vote. This year, however, she is going to have to win a one on [...]

The local college radio station, KVSC 88.1 FM, is doing a set of interviews with DFL and Republican candidates ahead of the primary elections on August 10th.

A letter to the editor fawning over the candidacy of Dan Severson for Secretary of State appeared in the St. Cloud Times today. The crux of the argument made by the writer is to claim that Dan Severson is honest and he believes in God so we should vote for him to run elections in [...]

During the recent kerfuffle over slashing wages and tip credits and all the other less than brilliant things Tom Emmer was trying to get across to Minnesota voters, I had the opportunity to sit down and have a drink with Nathan Hansen (R), the Republican endorsed candidate running against Leon Lillie (DFL) in House District [...]

Earlier tonight I received an interesting Twitter Direct Message from Ryan Lyk whose twitter page describes him as the Co-Chair of the University of Minnesota Duluth College Republicans. In the message he asked who I would be voting for in the upcoming DFL Primary. After asking why he wanted to know, Lyk appears to indicate [...]

Camp America Grassroots, an ultra conservative organization based in Central Minnesota sent out an invitation to a Republican fundraising event to be held this Wednesday. You may remember Camp America as the organization that doesn’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.