Minnesota
Illegal Immigration Issue Hits Minnesota While Bill Moves Through Congress
As Congress attempts to push a controversial immigration bill through Capitol Hill, the issue of illegal immigration came to the forefront in Minnesota this week. More than two-dozen individuals in a prostitution ring were indicted on Monday by federal…
Read MoreMinnesota House Gas Tax Increase In Step With Statewide Majority View
In the seven weeks since its initial House approval in late March, the DFL found 7 more votes in a bill passage earlier this week that would raise the state’s gas tax by a nickel per gallon to a potential…
Read MoreSmart Politics Exclusive: Interview with House Minority Leader Marty Seifert
Smart Politics recently conducted an exclusive interview with Minnesota House Minority Leader Marty Seifert (District 21A). Seifert was first elected to the legislature in 1996, and has been a formidable, vocal opponent of the House DFL agenda, becoming a…
Read MoreColeman Maintains Large Leads Over DFL Challengers
A new Minnesota Public Radio poll of 625 registered voters finds Norm Coleman maintaining 20+ point leads over both Al Franken and Mike Ciresi—the leading contenders for the DFL U.S. Senate nomination. The new poll numbers are virtually identical…
Read MoreLive Blogging: Senator Norm Coleman Event
9:45 a.m. Republican Senator Norm Coleman will be speaking on energy and politics at 10 am today at the Humphrey’s Cowles Auditorium. Coleman’s speech is entitled: “Building from the Center: Getting the Job Done on Renewable Energy.” This is the…
Read MoreRamstad Petitions Bush to Find Iraq Solution
Republican Congressman Jim Ramstad (MN-03) joined 10 of his fellow GOP Congressmen in a meeting at the White House earlier this week to discuss the war in Iraq with President Bush along with members of his cabinet (Defense Secretary…
Read MoreSmart Politics Live Blogging at Sen. Coleman Event
Smart Politics will be blogging live from the Humphrey Institute on Monday, May 14th, from 10:00 am to 11:15 am at Senator Norm Coleman’s speech on renewable energy. The talk, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics and…
Read MorePawlenty Wins Minor Battle in Fight Against Illegal Immigration
The DFL dropped provisions from a higher education bill—passed by the House and Senate—that would have allowed children of illegal immigrants in Minnesota to qualify for in-state tuition. The inclusion of the so-called “DREAM Act” would assuredly have been…
Read MoreWho Is Driving Upper Midwest Support of Edwards?
As discussed in the May 4th Smart Politics entry, John Edwards is faring much better than Hillary Clinton in head-to-head matchups against GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani across the nation, and in the Upper Midwest in particular (as measured by…
Read MoreKlobuchar & Coleman Still Get High Marks
Minnesota DFL Senator Amy Klobuchar continues to garner a strong approval rating—now four months into her tenure as junior senator from the Gopher State. The most recent SurveyUSA April poll found 58 percent of Minnesotans approve of her performance….
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