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			  <title><![CDATA[Quam quits gig to help husband Entenza run for governor]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Quam says: "I realized that I needed to let the business spread its wings and expand. At the same time, I'm deeply committed to being alongside Matt as he campaigns for governor." ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Pawlenty has own backdrop - and more travel plans?]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota governor does the usual on Fox News -- in front of a backdrop for his PAC ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Pawlenty has sports on the Twitter]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The governor tweeted about Mauer's MVP selection and about the Vikings game recently ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[DFL governor candidates to debate in Hopkins tomorrow]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[All eleven candidates slated to attend ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 23, Nov 2009 12:4:11 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Bipartisan duo pushes more nuclear power in Minnesota]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Congressmen Walz and Paulsen want to repeal the state's moratorium of new nuclear power plants ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 23, Nov 2009 12:9:35 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Bachmann: "I wish I could be more artful in the way that I say things"]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[In a Q & A with the St. Cloud Times, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, says she is not trying to be a national voice and that she stands for the same values her Democratic parents did ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[More Vikings stadium sizzle -- or not?]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Two Minnesota House committees tour Metrodome this morning, but one committee chair cautions about reading too much into it ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 23, Nov 2009 10:21:25 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[GOP's Charlie Weaver opts out of governor's race]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The executive director of the Minnesota Business Partnership said he decided not to run because, "life is short" ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Oberstar: "Send Larry Summers back to Harvard"]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Rep. Jim Oberstar took a fresh swipe at the Obama administration this weekend over their attempts to delay his sweeping transportation reauthorization bill ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Klobuchar looks ahead to health care debate]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Senator says she is working on several amendments ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Franken restates support for HC bill, acknowledges it will change]]></title>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Klobuchar disagrees with new breast cancer guidelines]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a sponsor of breast cancer legislation in the Senate, said this afternoon that she disagrees with new breast cancer detection guidelines issued this week by a government-appointed panel. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Minnesota House files brief in unallotment suit]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Read the House's legal brief, which says Gov. Tim Pawlenty tried to make complete law when he single-handledly slashed the budget earlier this year.  ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Then there were three: Kelliher gets another union nod]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[AFSCME 65, a union of outstate Minnesota local government and other workers, endorsed  House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, in her bid for governor ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 20, Nov 2009 13:50:32 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[In tweets and bills, MN liberals speak out on Afghanistan]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Reps. McCollum and Ellison engage on the war debate this week ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 20, Nov 2009 13:3:49 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Pawlenty: Democrats' health care ideas would "trample on the rights of states"]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[At the Republican Governors Association meeting, the Minnesota governor continues his bashing of health reform proposals in DC ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 19, Nov 2009 16:23:13 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Gubernatorial candidate Pat Anderson:  No public money for Vikings stadium]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[In the wake of Thursday's clash between the Metrodome's owners and the Vikings over extending the team's lease, Anderson said the state has higher priorities than public subsidies for a new stadium  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 19, Nov 2009 15:13:27 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[They'll party like they don't hate each other]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[DFL, GOP, Independence and Green Party leaders will get together Saturday for a nonpartisan party ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 19, Nov 2009 13:32:26 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Ali govorite slovensko? Oberstar breaks into his ancestral tongue]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Transportation Committee Chairman commemorates Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution on the House floor.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 19, Nov 2009 12:2:1 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Kelliher gets her second union nod in the 2010 governor's race]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[A week after getting the endorsement from a public employees union, House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, was endorsed by engineers' local 49 ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 19, Nov 2009 8:48:31 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Watch Pawlenty in Texas]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota governor is in Texas at the Republican Governors Association annual conference.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 18, Nov 2009 15:14:41 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Franken asks supporters to help Clark's campaign]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The senator wrote an e-mail this afternoon urging people to donate to Tarryl Clark's campaign to unseat Sixth District Rep. Michele Bachmann. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 18, Nov 2009 12:8:11 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[In first big speech, former Sen. Coleman praises "center right"]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[At Harvard, former Republican U.S. Sen. Coleman says Americans are looking for consensus and posited he would have won his seat if the economy hadn't collapsed. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Franken a "sparkling personality?"]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[He and Paul Begala will headline a Dem fundraiser ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 18, Nov 2009 9:28:49 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Paulsen's bill aims to stop TARP program]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Republicans sense anti-bailout sentiment ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 18, Nov 2009 15:44:32 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Pawlenty criticizes Recovery.gov errors]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Governor responds to story about non-existent congressional districts on stimulus website.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 17, Nov 2009 16:11:34 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA["The Body" jumps back in the ring]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Former Governor Jesse Ventura to host WWE's "Monday Night Raw" ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 17, Nov 2009 15:6:19 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Rybak shakes up city staff and hires a campaign manager]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[City communications director Hanson to become chief of staff; current chief of staff to manage Rybak's 2010 run for governor; St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman's re-elect campaign manager to become Rybak's city communications director. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Contractor will challenge Kline in 2nd District]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Dan Powers is making his second bid for the congressional seat. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 17, Nov 2009 10:45:16 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Bachmann's health care rally questioned -- again]]></title>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Hackett in as Paulsen challenger ]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Psychiatrist announces her candidacy for Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District and pledges to 'revive the American dream.' ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 16, Nov 2009 19:41:8 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[In poll, Norm Coleman top GOP 2010 pick; Rybak and Dayton top DFLer picks]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Rasmussen poll included just a selection of folks running for governor and two folks who aren't running (yet) ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[T-shirt business growing for Liberty Maniacs]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[A self-described libertarian from St. Cloud is making a tidy – and growing – living by churning out t-shirt designs. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 16, Nov 2009 16:10:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Democrats take aim at 32 Republicans in districts Obama won ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 16, Nov 2009 15:1:55 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty takes his call for constitutional curbs in state spending to a broader audience. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 16, Nov 2009 16:40:41 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[In a letter to Senate leaders, Franken and Klobuchar ask for a different carbon credit calculation.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 17, Nov 2009 7:36:51 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[We're traversing the amazing convergence of print, web and television ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 13, Nov 2009 10:18:39 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[House Speaker Margaret Kelliher, a DFL gubernatorial candidate, wants special panel formed to discuss new Vikings stadium ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 12, Nov 2009 19:45:56 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The great English byline-free magazine says: "Mr Pawlenty is coy about his ambitions, but he is plainly looking beyond Minnesota’s borders....All this is supposed to build a base of support. But there is also room for disaster. " ]]></description>
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			  <pubDate>Thu, 12, Nov 2009 17:13:20 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Bachmann backs off from Holocaust images]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Says images of victims were 'inappropriate' at her health care rally ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 12, Nov 2009 14:56:57 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota governor will speak at the Alabama Republican Party's winter meeting in February ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 12, Nov 2009 12:21:12 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The nod from the state employees union is the DFL gubernatorial candidate's first labor endorsement ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 12, Nov 2009 10:18:18 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Rep. Kahn gets kudos]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Magazine names her one of its "Public Officials of the Year." ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 12, Nov 2009 8:1:46 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[For the second straight night, Jon Stewart takes aim at her ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 12, Nov 2009 7:31:53 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[A spokesman for Gov. Tim Pawlenty's political action committee said this afternoon that the governor will be traveling to New Hampshire in December to fundraise for some local Republican politicians. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[House Web sites cannot "include grassroots lobbying or solicit support for a Member's position." ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 11, Nov 2009 10:54:42 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[State Republican chairman on Veterans Day: "Today we come together to proudly honor and express our heartfelt gratitude to our nation's armed forces veterans for their heroism, courage and commitment to country." ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Washington Post reporter assesses Pawlenty's recent moves, finds some wanting. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 11, Nov 2009 10:23:57 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[DFL Party chairman: "Today, we honor the courageous and faithful men and women who have served our country in uniform, who have defended our values and won the freedoms that we enjoy." ]]></description>
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			  <pubDate>Wed, 11, Nov 2009 8:42:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Tarryl Clark announces top campaign staff in her race for Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 10, Nov 2009 17:1:35 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Ventura stopped by the Capitol to get a new identification card from the State Patrol and shared a few thoughts ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 10, Nov 2009 15:6:23 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA["If we want to govern and be a majority party, we need folks there," Coleman says in an interview. "If it is just us being angry, if it just a part of our party, then we are going to find it really challenging to actually be in office ." ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Former DFL coordinated campaign staffer and recent law school grad Dave Griggs will lead Bakk campaign ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 9, Nov 2009 16:45:3 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty will head to moneyed Naples, Florida this week to talk to the Forum Club ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 9, Nov 2009 16:13:10 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Democrats go on the offensive ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 10, Nov 2009 8:37:55 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[In letter to Verizon Wireless CEO, Senator says she is "disappointed" with decision to increase early termination fees. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 9, Nov 2009 20:46:44 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Congresswoman to honor slain St. Paul soldier ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 9, Nov 2009 14:30:45 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Tonight's 2010 candidates forum will be streamed live on the Web ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 9, Nov 2009 14:21:37 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Brian Sullivan, a Republican National Committeeman and 2002 candidate for governor, is still not running for governor in 2010. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 9, Nov 2009 13:51:43 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Rep. Jim Oberstar spoke on the floor urging his colleagues to support the health care bill, likely because a key amendment regarding abortion is expected to pass.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 7, Nov 2009 19:55:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Transportation committee chair is waiting to see the outcome of an amendment regarding abortion.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 7, Nov 2009 19:31:13 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Hours before a do-or-die vote on health care, the last of the Minnesota votes is still falling into place ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 7, Nov 2009 18:32:3 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Congressman held out because he wanted public option to be more robust ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 7, Nov 2009 16:8:21 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minneapolis Mayor Rybak was dinged by the state campaign finance board for using his mayoral campaign to pay for a gubernatorial poll. Read on for the questions he asked. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 7, Nov 2009 20:22:35 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann held D.C. rally to aid health care companies that have bankrolled her campaigns, challenger's staff says. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 6, Nov 2009 17:14:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Slams 'Pelosi government takeover' of health care ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 6, Nov 2009 17:22:58 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minnesota Senate Taxes Committee chair and gubernatorial candidate Tom Bakk had suggested a quick session to pass an early borrowing bill  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 6, Nov 2009 15:48:4 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Fri, 6, Nov 2009 7:37:37 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Thu, 5, Nov 2009 12:31:11 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The governor had said the Maine Republican may have a problem if she disagrees with the GOP too much ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 5, Nov 2009 17:54:8 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Thu, 5, Nov 2009 8:27:59 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[According to the university's events schedule he'll give an address there this month ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 5, Nov 2009 8:34:25 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Actor Jon Voight and author Mark Levin are expected to attend in addition to Republican House leadership.  ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Governor schedules press conference Thursday, but provides few details ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Michelle Marston, credited with raising the Minnesota Republican's profile, gives no reason why ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 4, Nov 2009 15:16:16 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Former state Rep. Allen Quist says he sees himself in the model of former U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht or former President Ronald Reagan more than U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 4, Nov 2009 15:27:17 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The ex-Gov. tells Larry King politicians should wear racing suits with their sponsorship logos ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 4, Nov 2009 12:7:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[DFLer Hackett has set up committee to run for 3rd District Congressional seat. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 4, Nov 2009 11:29:14 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The governor predicted yesterday that two Republican wins would be a "pretty good shot across the bow" of the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 4, Nov 2009 11:17:45 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Former state Rep. Quist appears to be gearing up to run for Congress in 2010 ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 4, Nov 2009 8:33:22 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer to support Pawlenty at his Minneapolis fundraiser ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 3, Nov 2009 18:16:47 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Political fact-checker finds U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's recent statement about the proposed health care overhaul to be less than truthful. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Snowe in reaction to Pawlenty's comments: "I've been a lifelong Republican -- I haven't changed, I don't know what the problem is -- I really don't."  ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Old Mondale hand calls it quits after 17 years at the helm of the National Trust for Historic Preservation ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 3, Nov 2009 16:7:36 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expressing concern about reports that detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be offered H1N1 vaccinations.
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			  <description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar and El Tinklenberg will hold a fundraiser for Tarryl Clark in her effort to unseat U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Five thousand vehicles from the federal stimulus Cash for Clunkers program have ended up in the Blaine salvage yard owned by the father of a prominent DFL legislator ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA["We want Olympia Snowe in the big tent but she can't say she's a Republican and then vote against the Republican position much of the time," Pawlenty said.  "If she disagrees with everything, that's a problem." ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The former governor will "tell us how this election night might change the political landscape," on Larry King Live. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 2, Nov 2009 18:21:49 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Campaigns and Elections' Politics magazine has a two-page spread on Republican Governors Association's 26-year-old chair Nick Ayers in which TPaw's name -- and geographic attractiveness -- came up. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Pundits and politicians have been lifting the nearly 2,000 page health care proposal on television for days, but Rep. Erik Paulsen wants Minnesotans to see it for themselves. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[And someone was there with a video camera ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 2, Nov 2009 16:6:5 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Rep. Kahn Wins Award]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[She's honored for being "a force in state government for more than 35 years." ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 2, Nov 2009 13:58:47 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Mon, 2, Nov 2009 12:57:38 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Where in the world has Pawlenty been?]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has traveled the world as governor and has two more foreign trips planned this year. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Klobuchar, Franken and Peterson the only Minnesotans to make the cut during Obama's first six months ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 31, Oct 2009 14:32:27 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The law requires police to report seizures to lend transparency to a process open to abuse. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The governor didn't give an inch on a publicly financed stadium and says gaming money probably won't get the Vikes a new home ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 30, Oct 2009 11:57:27 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Thu, 29, Oct 2009 16:38:29 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[State Sen. Tarryl Clark of St. Cloud is racking up supporters in her effort to unseat U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann.  ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Star Tribune's newest political writer, Baird Helgeson, starts work covering the state budget, elections and other Minnesota issues. ]]></description>
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			  <pubDate>Wed, 28, Oct 2009 10:39:51 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty will speak to NRSC fall meeting next month ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 27, Oct 2009 17:25:14 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Tue, 27, Oct 2009 14:41:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Keith Ellison read a statement saying allegations smack of McCarthyism.  ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The president of the conservative Taxpayers League of Minnesota, who generally frowns on big government spending programs, makes an exception for a provision that helps his own company ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Republican governor endorsed the Conservative Party candidate today. He'll contribute cash to him, too.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 26, Oct 2009 17:57:12 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[In a New York Times profile, Democrat Mike Griffin says he is contemplating running for the Legislature. Kahn herself asked the Times an election question seven years ago. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 26, Oct 2009 17:47:40 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minnesota governor's pick aligns him against his party's pick but with the favorite of the right ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 26, Oct 2009 17:33:37 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Rep. Matt Dean, R-Dellwood, says before news broke that 50-inch plasma TVs were bought for sex offenders at a treatment facility, he tried to eliminate a provision that pays them wages when they work.
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minnesota governor piles on the criticism of Obama in NewsMax interview ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 26, Oct 2009 13:46:53 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Senior Editor for Online Opinion at The Washington Times says Gov. Tim Pawlenty fumbled by not letting conservative media into DC fundraiser ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 24, Oct 2009 22:22:5 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Voices on the left say it could be. But a key Democrat says he supports it. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 23, Oct 2009 15:33:54 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The first-term congressman supports the governor's message, says a presidential bid will "keep Minnesota on the map." ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 23, Oct 2009 16:48:52 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[As a presumed presidential candidate, he's asked to take sides in a special congressional race that is splitting the party.
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			  <pubDate>Fri, 23, Oct 2009 14:15:59 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Fri, 23, Oct 2009 13:17:11 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Fri, 23, Oct 2009 9:59:14 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Sen. Al Franken's first piece of legislation, attached to the massive defense authorization bill, now awaits Obama's signature. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Deal on Medicare may pave the way for a 'yes' vote on public option ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 22, Oct 2009 13:36:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher adds nine more names to her list of DFL super-delegate endorsements ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 22, Oct 2009 15:7:33 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty holds his first PAC fundraiser in Washington DC tonight. He'll have a high-dollar party in Minneapolis next. ]]></description>
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			  <pubDate>Thu, 22, Oct 2009 9:41:56 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Assistant Minneapolis Police Chief came out publicly on the front page of the Star Tribune in 1993.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 21, Oct 2009 15:37:6 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The 6th District hopeful is vying to take on Michele Bachmann ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 21, Oct 2009 14:34:43 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Pawlenty's calling all governors: Let's sell each others' health insurance]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty today wrote to all 49 states' governors to pave the way for inter-state health insurance purchasing ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Secretary of State hosts confab of female senators at the State Department ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 20, Oct 2009 17:12:47 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Democrats are frustrated with GOP amendments ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 20, Oct 2009 13:21:49 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[No H1N1 shot for Pawlenty - yet]]></title>
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			  <pubDate>Tue, 20, Oct 2009 17:47:39 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[DFLer's campaign for governor gets a boost ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 20, Oct 2009 13:3:41 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[2010 session talks to start tomorrow ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 19, Oct 2009 14:25:21 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty "went to great lengths to emphasize his conservative credentials" according to a report from his Western CPAC speech; he hopes to cash in on them in Washington, DC later this week ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 19, Oct 2009 14:8:24 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[State Sen. Tarryl Clark gets cash endorsements from three current members of congress ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 16, Oct 2009 17:4:16 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Vikings Stadium:  Three yards and a cloud of dust]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[When it comes to a new Vikings stadium, the signs of movement at the State Capitol may be deceiving. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 16, Oct 2009 17:13:44 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Republican blames the mortgage crisis on anti-discrimination measures in the Community Reinvestment Act.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 16, Oct 2009 16:11:1 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Detroit Lakes congressman plays guitar in Washington with Chuck Leavell.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 16, Oct 2009 17:19:52 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty is the preferred choice of just four percent of Republicans polled and comes in top as the potential candidate they would "least like to see win" ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 16, Oct 2009 13:45:15 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Fri, 16, Oct 2009 11:37:32 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Shot over Biden's bow ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 15, Oct 2009 11:44:40 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart devoted a segment of his show last night to Sen. Al Franken's recent amendment targeting defense contractors.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 15, Oct 2009 11:43:35 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Norm Coleman on Pawlenty: "I think he'd make a great president"]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The former senator also says he is now on the board of directors at the Republican Jewish Coalition  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 14, Oct 2009 14:20:56 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gov. Tim Pawlenty's speech to the RJC in Washington, DC was closed to the press but Twitter gives a glimpse of what happened inside ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 14, Oct 2009 12:22:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[At the Minnesota Business Partnership dinner tonight, Gov. Tim Pawlenty painted a bleak portrait of automobile giant General Motors and the state of government in Minnesota and in the United States. In doing so, he began to sketch out what may be a theme he'll sound as he explores potentially running for president in 2012. ]]></description>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Seifert, Rybak, Kohls, Kelliher, Weaver, Emmer, Bakk... Oh My! ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 14, Oct 2009 11:37:54 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Sen. Al Franken will travel to Cambridge, Mass., next month to speak at a fundraiser for Massachusetts state treasurer candidate Steve Grossman, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 13, Oct 2009 18:43:2 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The governor will be in Washington, D.C. Wednesday and California Thursday and Friday ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 13, Oct 2009 17:21:51 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Tue, 13, Oct 2009 15:26:59 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minneapolis cop Sharon Lubinski has experience on a terrorism task force. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 13, Oct 2009 14:57:26 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minnesota governor says it is not ideal that he was talking health care on the same day there's a big health care vote in the U.S. Senate ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 13, Oct 2009 13:14:36 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minnesota's liberal Jewish Senator and conservative Christian governor will both address Jewish organizations in Washington within the next week. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 13, Oct 2009 12:39:19 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Report says 2008 presidential nominee John McCain loyalists are flocking to Pawlenty and some conservatives are expressing doubts about TPaw ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 13, Oct 2009 10:12:26 CST</pubDate>
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			  <pubDate>Mon, 12, Oct 2009 18:35:51 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Peterson offers latest proposal for regulatory overhaul]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Rep. Collin Peterson released draft legislation on Friday which will could eventually be incorporated into the final congressional effort to regulate a key area of the financial sector. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 12, Oct 2009 17:40:46 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Ten candidates to talk about hunger and poverty this Wednesday ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 12, Oct 2009 16:49:50 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Reed and Clark report the money they've raised in their attempts to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 12, Oct 2009 13:39:4 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[DFLers travel to Washington to urge flexibility for Minnesota in health care legislation.
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			  <pubDate>Mon, 12, Oct 2009 12:50:51 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Kelliher: Governor's office or bust]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher will not run for re-election for her House seat. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 12, Oct 2009 12:29:55 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[A Minnesotan close to the the president's ear ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 9, Oct 2009 17:13:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[St. Paul's Coleman said no to a 2010 run for governor, what will Minneapolis' Rybak do? ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 9, Oct 2009 16:50:52 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Candidate says the more than decade old gun possession charge should be a misdemeanor; prosecutor says things are more complicated. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 9, Oct 2009 15:57:42 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Pawlenty says Obama deserves congratulations for the prize but that he is "struggling" with question over whether it was won for "process or results." ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 9, Oct 2009 9:48:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[She gave a remarkable performance two years ago when questioned about the firings of U.S. Attorneys ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 8, Oct 2009 17:24:32 CST</pubDate>
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