Republican strategist Karl Rove is coming back to Minnesota.

Rove, who engenders admiration and some love from the right and admiration and some hate from the left, will address the Republican Party's Republican Midwest Leadership Conference in early October.

Other speakers, whose names the Minnesota GOP has been dribbling out for weeks, include Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad. The list may soon expand to include some other newsy names.