Hennepin County caught illegally staffing ballot board. Just weeks before the 2024 election, Hennepin County was exposed by the Minnesota Voters Alliance (MVA) and the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC)…
The 94th Minnesota Legislature will convene on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. And when that happens, it appears that Republicans will hold a slight, if temporary, advantage in both houses. Two…
Results from the Thinking Minnesota post-election poll show that having “favorite son” Tim Walz on the national Democratic ticket did not influence most Minnesota voters. Only 23 percent said having…
Back in 1973, when Time magazine ran a story titled “The Good Life in Minnesota” and put our state’s governor, Wendell Anderson, on the cover, the article stated: “Politics is almost…
That’s according to the outgoing U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Andy Luger. And he should know. Luger, a Biden appointee, announced that he will step down next month and sat down…
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy should have checked with his agencies’ customers in Minnesota and North Dakota before giving himself an “A” at a congressional oversight hearing last week in Washington.…
News outlets (AlphaNews and KSTP) have obtained the settlement document between sitting state Rep. Bianca Virnig (DFL-Eagan) and her former outside employer, BrightWorks. KSTP reporter Tom Hauser posted the document…
The long-time, forthcoming mayoral candidacy of state Sen. Omar Fateh finally came forth on Monday, with the posting of a 1 min. 35 sec. introductory video on social media. The…
As expected, Republican Aaron Paul, the challenger in the House 54A (Shakopee-area) election last month, filed a court challenge to the published result. Officially, the Democratic incumbent state Rep. Brad…
Last January, I wrote a post titled “12 things for state legislators to do.” None of them got done, but, as an eternal optimist, here, slightly amended, is my list…
The website fatehformayor.com has gone live and Blois Olson reports that the state senator has a city hall press conference scheduled for tomorrow (Monday). We had earlier reported that Sen.…
In a Thanksgiving-eve, pre-holiday, afternoon news dump, officials in Scott County admit that 20 ballots were destroyed in this year’s election. The county attorney issued a two-page report, summarizing the…
Yesterday, a recount of ballots from three precincts located in Sherburne County (St. Cloud) was conducted. One vote shifted from the incumbent Democrat state Rep. Dan Wolgamott (14B) to his…
Alert readers will recall that I’ve written several times about the federal immigration court located at Ft. Snelling. Officially it’s the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review.…
Yesterday, Scott County completed a recount of ballots in the race for State House of Representatives District 54A. The headline from the Minnesota Star Tribune: DFL Rep. Brad Tabke picks…
2025 will be an election year in Minneapolis, with the mayor and the entire city council on the ballot. Incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey appears ready to run for a third…
The weirdness just keeps piling up. You’ve probably seen the latest headlines: Felony charges: Hubbard County election judge allowed 11 unregistered voters to cast ballots You read that correctly, a…
Minneapolis Ward 6 council member Jamal Osman is back in the news over his links to the sprawling free-food scandal. But he isn’t answering any questions. The latest round of…
That’s the apparent situation in Shakopee, MN, where the incumbent DFL state Rep. Brad Tabke leads his Republican opponent, Aaron Paul, by 14 votes out of nearly 22,000 votes cast…
Election Day was Tuesday, November 5, 2024. At least that’s what we used to call it. Now it’s just a day where Minnesota begins the process of collecting and counting…
I guess we’ll find out for sure once the new legislature convenes in January. In the meantime, we search for signs and portents. As for trends, I’ve been pointing to…
Notes from the day after the night before. Election 2024 saw the end of Democratic party (DFL) monopoly control at the state capitol. Trump did not prevail in Minnesota, but…
Steve Sviggum was first elected to the Minnesota House in 1978, arriving in St. Paul as a wide-eyed farmer and teacher from Kenyon, Minnesota. The blatant abuse of power he…
The massive changes in election laws enacted by Minnesota Democrats over the past two years inspired us at the Center to undertake a four-stop “election integrity tour” last month. We…