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Reporting on State Politics and Government

Democracy for America, the political organization founded by Howard Dean, says money it raised recently for democratic State Senator Tarryl Clark against republican incumbent Rep. Michele Bachmann set a record: it was the most the group had pulled in for a democratic U.S. House challenger in a 24-hour period. It was not, as the Huffington…
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Eric Ostermeier, one of the sources in my story today about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s and State Senator Tarryl Clark’s fundraising, has analyzed how much of the two candidates’ funding is coming from current or past politicians–what he calls “political elites.” Ostermeier says that while Bachmann is slightly outperforming Clark in donations from Minnesotans overall, Clark…
Boehner will hold a fundraiser for Demmer on August 30th.
Dayton says the GOP is now trying to "intimidate him and the voters."
ABM says Emmer missed 142 votes in 2010.