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MN Senator: The GOP Isn’t Bigoted Against “Polacks”
The Independent reports: A Minnesota state senator’s defense of the Republican Party was complicated when he used a derogatory term for Polish people. State Sen. Mark Johnson was arguing in a speech on...
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Far-Right Ex-Sheriff David Clarke Floats Run For Senate
The Daily Beast reports: Over his controversial years in politics, David Clarke has worn several hats: Milwaukee sheriff, right-wing firebrand, prominent Donald Trump surrogate, cowboy. (Literally.)...
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MN Rep Votes Against Free Lunches For Poor Students Since He’s “Yet To Meet A...
NBC News reports: A Republican state senator in Minnesota said Tuesday he was voting against a bill to provide free breakfast and lunch for school students in part because he’d never encountered anyone...
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Minnesota Rep: Ex-Gay Torture Bans Enable Pedophiles
“If the person is struggling with some of those behaviors and desires, we want to insert government and say to the counselor or therapist, you cannot try to tell him that what he’s doing isn’t right....
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Minnesota Derailment Sparks Fire And Evacuations
CBS News reports: An early morning train derailment in the small town of Raymond in west-central Minnesota started a large fire and resulted in evacuations, authorities said. BNSF Railway said in a...
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GOP Megadonor Guilty Of Sex Trafficking Underage Girls
CBS News reports: Anton Lazzaro, a former GOP operative, has been found guilty of sex trafficking underage girls. Lazzaro was charged with seven counts involving “commercial sex acts” with five minors...
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Feds: Man Set Fires At Mosques, Graffiti’d Omar’s Office
From the Justice Department: Jackie Rahm Little, aka Joel Arthur Tueting, has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with arson following fires at two Minneapolis mosques, announced...
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MN Becomes 23rd State With Legal Recreational Weed
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: Minnesota became the 23rd state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana for adults after Gov. Tim Walz signed the measure into law on Tuesday. The bill...
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Politico: Battleground GOP State Parties Have Collapsed
Politico reports: Michigan’s Republican party is broke. Minnesota’s was, until recently, down to $53.81 in the bank. And in Colorado, the GOP is facing eviction from its office this month because it...
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GOP Megadonor Gets 21 Years For Child Sex Trafficking
The Associated Press reports: A formerly well-connected GOP donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in prison on sex...
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New Lawsuit Seeks To Bar Trump From Minnesota Ballot
Talking Points Memo reports: Groups pushing to disqualify Donald Trump from 2024 ballots struck again Tuesday, filing a lawsuit in Minnesota Supreme Court to bar him from the state’s presidential...
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Minnesota Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges
Minnesota Public Radio reports: A former youth pastor at a Duluth church was jailed Tuesday and charged with sexually abusing five teenage girls. St. Louis County prosecutors said that Jackson M....
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WSJ: Dem Rep To Launch Biden Challenge On Friday
The Wall Street Journal reports: Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota is preparing to formally announce a long- shot Democratic primary challenge to President Biden, offering himself as a next-generation...
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Arguments Begin In Trump Minnesota Ballot Case
ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s legal battles continue to mount as oral arguments begin on Thursday in Minnesota, where the state’s Supreme Court will decide whether or not the case...
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MN Supreme Court: Trump Can Stay On Primary Ballot
CNN reports: The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt to block Donald Trump from the state’s GOP primary ballot next year based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause” but...
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The Cult Melted Down Over New Minnesota State Flag
Media Matters reports: After a Minnesota commission unveiled its finalist pick for a new state flag to replace a racially offensive design, right-wing media insisted that the new design resembled one...
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Rioter Arrested After FBI Tip By High School Classmate
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: A tip from a high school classmate led the FBI to arrest a Lakeville man who has been charged with invading the U.S. Capitol during the violent and destructive...
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Harris To Make History With Abortion Clinic Visit
NBC News reports: Vice President Kamala Harris plans to tour a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota that provides abortion services Thursday, according to three sources familiar with the planning....
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Court: Pharmacist Illegally Refused To Sell Birth Control
Minnesota Public Radio reports: The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that an Aitkin County pharmacist’s refusal to give a woman emergency contraception in 2019 was illegal sex discrimination...
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MN GOP Rep: Gun Law Increases Risk Of Killer Cows
Heartland Signal reports: While arguing against a proposal for safe storage requirements for firearms, Minnesota state Sen. Warren Limmer (R-Maple Grove) contended that rural citizens need guns readily...
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