Monday, February 6th, 2012

Winona County Republicans

In a new ad by Minnesota Majority, they illustrate candidate Dayton, versus Governor Dayton. Governor Dayton told Tom Hauser, in a televised debate, that he would not shut government down over a tax increase. See the ad here.

During this session’s budget debate, it’s time to get the other side. Watch here.

Follow this link to watch freshman Senator John Howe on the “Your Legislators” TV show that aired on April 28th

State economists shared an updated budget forecast with lawmakers this week, and the initial numbers are positive. Minnesota has collected $984 million more than expected over the past few months, meaning our previous projection of the state budget deficit of $6.2 billion has now fallen to $5.1 billion. Why the change? The analysts tell us [...]

Fist up is Senator Miller. Greetings from the Capitol! Until this week our committee meetings were taken up with overviews by Senate Counsel and Research and by major stakeholders in our areas of responsibility, but now we have begun to consider our first bills. Legislating is a great responsibility: we are writing laws that will [...]

On Thursday, July 15th, all interested citizens in southeastern Minnesota are invited to participate in a town-hall style listening session in the Community Room at the St. Charles City Hall building, beginning at 7:00 pm. This listening session in St. Charles is part of the Emmer for Governor Freedom and Prosperity Tour.  The meeting will [...]

Today Republicans from all over the state showed up at the State Office Building to file their respective offices.  Over 100 of the Party’s best and brightest attended a press conference and stopped in the Secretary of State’s office to fulfill the legal requirement for showing up on the ballot in November. The mass filing [...]

Someone at the NRSC has a great sense of humor. Check out their new ad.

Earlier this week, the Minnesota House took up their form of the bonding bill.  As posted here earlier, the Senate has passed their version last week, totaling $999 million.  The House version tops a whopping $1.1 billion on the State’s credit card. During debate on the Floor, the Democrat Majority used a rare parliamentary maneuver [...]

The Minnesota House Republican Caucus, led by Rep. Zellers have a plan. Check out this post from Freedom Dogs http://www.freedomdogs.com/news-archive-mainmenu-2/72-minnesota-news-and-topics/4281-i-like-what-im-seeing-from-the-house-republicans.html.