Good Thursday Morning Fellow Seekers,
Guest Poster Karl Bremer of Stillwater, a marketer and free-lance journalist, considers himself U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s least favorite constituent. He has attempted to ask her questions by phone, email and letter and has never received an answer, including his queries relating to this piece.
Looking at Bachmann’s financial disclosure statement, he […]

Good Wednesday morning Fellow Seekers,
After state Sen. Terri Bonoff’s announcement event Monday morning, I wrote a bland, neutral piece. Bonoff, whom I had never seen before, didn’t blow me away with her eloquence, but competently delivered a well-constructed script that, as these things do, roamed freely among biography, philosophy, issue positions and tributes to the […]

James Hovland, the mayor of Edina who recently became a Democrat and has been exploring running for Congress from the Third District, told me Monday that he expects to make up his mind this week, that he is “strongly leaning” toward getting into the race, and that if he does so, he will seek the […]

To the surprise of no one, state Sen. Terri Bonoff, D-Minnetonka, officially officially entered the race for the Third District congressional seat currently held by Republican Jim Ramstad.
Surrounded by friends and family, in a well-staged event at Hopkins High School, Bonoff paid tribute to Ramstad, described herself as a fiscal moderate/conservative and social liberal, and […]

Good Saturday morning,
I linked Thursday to John Edwards first TV commercial, a sentimental piece making the non-controversial case that ordinary people are the real heroes of America.
On Friday, he released a tougher piece. (My thanks to commenter Peder, who called attention to it in the thread under the previous post.) This one, titled “The Politics […]

Your humble and obdt. ink-stained wretch will participatie in a panel at the downtown Mpls. main libary Saturday morning. The panel, titled “The Future of News: What Role for Journalists?” is part of a longer day of programss under the overall title of “Life After Newspapers.”
It’s the Annual Citizens Media Forum of the twin Cities […]

Good Friday morning Fellow Seekers,
Pres. Bush’s nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to be attorney general is scheduled for a Judiciary Committee vote Tuesday. The nomination, which was considered a sure bet for confirmation before the committee hearings, has run into problems with several Democratic senators because Mukasey wouldn’t say whether he believes water-boarding is a […]

Good Thursday noon, Fellow Seekers,
The John Edwards presidential campaign is up today with its first TV ad in Iowa. It’s a likable 60-second spot, without much substance, in which former Sen. Edwards tell people not to look to him as a hero (was there such a great danger of that?) but to look to ordinary […]

Good Thursday morning Fellow Seekers,
DFL U.S. Senate candidate Mike Ciresi has been on the attack lately against his chief rival for the DFL endorsement, Al Franken, over Franken’s early support for the decision to invade Iraq. Ciresi has said that he opposed the war from the beginning.
But it is apparently the case — and the […]