The federal Office of Special Counsel is investigating allegations that Rachel Paulose, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, mishandled classified information, decided to fire the subordinate who called it to her attention, retaliated against others in the office who crossed her, and made racist remarks about one employee.
Paulose did not return phone calls seeking her comment. Black […]

Good Thursday morning.
At earlier stages of his U.S. Senate candidacy, Mike Ciresi had indicated that his pledge to abide by the endorsement process was conditional.
He told me back then that while he planned to abide, and had a strategy to get the endorsement, if the calendar changed and he didn’t have time to execute his strategy, he would revisit […]

Gov. Mitt Romney Monday announced his presidential campaign’s Minnesota Steering Committee.
The State Co-Chairs are lobbyist/consultant Jack Meeks, who used to be Minnesota committeeman on the Republican National Committee; Brian Sullivan, businessman, former gubernatorial candidate and current Minnesota National Committeeman; Evie Axdahl, the current Minnesota National Committeewoman; and Tony Sutton, a restaurateur and Secretary/Treasurer of the Minn. GOP.

Okay, Pres. Bush and U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar didn’t directly address these comments to one another, but they might as well have, and although Bush’s complaints about Congressional pork projects may have been a mere excuse to oppose domestic spending, Oberstar is one of the kings of the House where earmarks for roads and bridges […]

Michele Bachmann has a mean streak.
On May 6, 2006, the day she was endorsed by the Sixth District Republican Party for the nomination to become a U.S. Representative, she threatened to retaliate against a woman who had opposed her nomination.
“You will pay, you will pay,” Bachmann said to the woman in front of a dozen […]

Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. attorney for Minnesota, suffered through an awkward moment Tuesday when a retirement party for a long-serving prosecutor in her office turned into a thunderous ovation for several of Paulose’s severest critics. Word of the incident has buzzed through the Twin Cities federal legal community and become the latest symbol of […]