Two DFL candidates in the 3rd Congressional District, Ashwin Madia and Terri Bonoff, announced today that their campaigns have raised impressive amounts in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Bonoff raised $213,000 and Madia raised $161,000, figures that confirm the emphasis that this race will receive from Democrats.
Bonoff, who is considered the front-runner, entered the race 10 […]

Yesterday, I reported that Dennis Kucinich has asked his Iowa supporters who find themselves in caucuses where he doesn’t have enough support to be declared “viable” under Iowa’s unusual rules to support Barack Obama. (I’m not claiming a scoop here; Kucinich put out a press release on it.)
Today several blogs and even the online New […]

The National Intelligence Estimate on the subject, representing the consensus of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, is that Iran halted weapons development in 2003, probably couldn’t process enough fuel for a bomb until the middle of the next decade, if it were to resume efforts to make such a weapon.
I don’t want to get ahead of […]

Former Minnesota Transportation Commissioner Elwyn Tinklenberg (at right on the phone) was endorsed Thursday by the Minnesota AFL-CIO in his race for the U.S. House from the Sixth District. If he wins the nomination, Tinklenberg will challenge first-term Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Stillwater.
Tinklenberg, who is also a former mayor of Blaine, and banker Bob […]

Good Wednesday morning Fellow Seekers,
Four DFLers seeking their party’s nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman debated Tuesday evening before an audience of several hundred that filled the Roosevelt High School auditorium in South Minneapolis.
The four — comedian Al Franken, attorney Mike Ciresi, attorney Jim Cohen and Professor Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer — agreed in general […]

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 Friday noon, Fellow Seekers,
My buddy Tom Hamburger of the L.A. Times broke a verrrrry interesting story this morning about a curious source of campaign cash that has been flowing to the Hillary Clinton for pres. campaign.
Clinton has raised hundreds of thousands (and when the full tale is told, I expect it will break […]

Good Thursday noon (and happy MEA weekend to those of you with school age kids):
Strategic Vision just released a poll, taken last weekend, of 600 likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers and 600 likely Republican caucus-goers. They’ve got presidential horserace numbers, of course,which I’ll provide below. But here’s the question that caught me by surprise:
Strategic vision asked […]

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to former Vice President Al Gore and to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its work to alert the world to the threat of global waarming.
Nice goin’ Al. 

Father Dennis Dease, president of St. Thomas University, regrets his earlier decision to block a campus appearance by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and is now inviting him. Here’s his statement. Dease had made a bad decision, but I give him credit for knowing how to acknowledge as much, apologize and try to make amends.
More coverage by my […]

The Republican Party must really have offended the political gods. Now six-term U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-New Mexico, is expected to announce today that he will not seek a seventh term. Health reasons.
Domenici was already in some political trouble (involvement in the scandal over the firing of New Mexico U.S. attorney David C. Iglesias) but would […]

Wow. Every time I’m told someone has a really good shot at the Dem. or Repub. nomination, they take themselves out of the running the next day.
Here’s the full text of State Sen. Geoff Michel’s (Republican of Edina) email:
“Last week a great Congressman announced that he would not run for reelection next year.  Jim Ramstad […]

I claim not the tiniest portion of the scoop on this one, but in case you read it here first, Sullivan sent out an email unequivocally removing himself from the race, citing both family and business reasons. My former colleague Mark Brunswick has the text on my former blog, the Big Question.
Sullivan may have been […]