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Here are your predictions for Minnesota's Republican Party caucus vote

Posted by: Rachel E. Stassen-Berger Updated: February 7, 2012 - 6:43 PM

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Minnesotans weighed in on their guesses for the winner of Tuesday night's Republican Party caucus vote over the last few days and the results are below.

The person who gets closest to the actual results will get bragging rights and a mention in the Star Tribune's Morning Hot Dish political newsletter. To sign up, go to StarTribune.com/membercenter, check the Politics newsletter box and save the change.

 

Mark Kennedy has a new job

Posted by: Paul Walsh Updated: January 17, 2012 - 6:52 AM

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Former U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy has a new job as director of the Graduate School of Political Management and professor of political management in George Washington University’s College of Professional Studies.

Kennedy, a Republican who ran and spectacularly lost the 2006 U.S. Senate race to Amy Klobuchar, has an M.B.A from the University of Michigan and worked as a senior business executive at Accenture, Department 56 and Federated Department Stores.

He told Hot Dish that he is looking forward to joining a school that is the first of its kind and is focused on applied politics.

“As we look at the world today, the biggest challenges aren’t that we don’t have policy solutions. It is that we haven’t figured out the politics for getting it done,” he said.

As to his epic loss to Klobuchar, he quoted John F. Kennedy, who once said, “The mysteries of politics all become clear to you after you lose an election.”

Added Mark Kennedy: “Based on that I should be an expert.”

He said he and his wife will keep their place in Watertown, but will spend most of their time in Washington.

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DFL joins in Democratic campaign against Mitt Romney

Posted by: Rachel E. Stassen-Berger Updated: November 28, 2011 - 10:42 AM

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By Baird Helgeson

The Democratic National Committee is unveiling a new advertising campaign today targeting GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Local DNC officials are holding a Capitol news conference to release the ad, which will air in six battleground markets, but not Minnesota.

The ad is a trailer for a four-minute video at the DNC’s new website, mittvmitt.com. Democrats are trying to highlight what they say are Romney's conflicting statements on issues from immigration to abortion to workers' rights.

The news conference is 11 a.m. at DFL headquarters in St. Paul. Check the Hot Dish blog for up-to-the minute updates.

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Another tax push coming?

Posted by: Rachel E. Stassen-Berger Updated: November 10, 2011 - 1:25 PM

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From the Morning Hot Dish newsletter. If you're not already getting Morning Hot Dish by email, it's easy to sign up.  Go to StarTribune.com/membercenter, check the Politics newsletter box and save the change.

Gov. Mark Dayton said in an interview Wednesday he doesn’t know if he will again push an income tax increase on wealthier Minnesotans next year.

He said he will have to see what the Dec. 1 forecast says about the state’s economic situation.

“I’m not going to borrow trouble. I’ve got enough on my plate right now," Dayton said, "I’ll think about it quite a bit more. I haven’t come to any decision.”

 

Zellers, Dayton, guns and dogs

Posted by: Rachel E. Stassen-Berger Updated: October 11, 2011 - 7:35 AM

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One sign that the vitriol of the shutdown left no hard feelings between Republican House Speaker Kurt Zellers and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton: “We can be trusted with small firearms right next to each other,” said Zellers.

Zellers will join Dayton’s hunting party at the First Annual Governor’s Pheasant Opener this weekend. Also along: Zeller’s 7-year-old black lab, Garske.

Zellers said he and Dayton have become “quite good friends” and besides, he said, he’ll take “any excuse to go hunting.”

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