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Who's Ahead?
Jim Ramstad
Keeping a Capitol Promise
06/26/08
A select few got to see the reality of a promise made to lawmakers at the Capitol many years ago. The promise was to keep one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in public hands: Lake Minnetonka's Big Island.
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( categories: Environment | 06/2008 | Barb Sykora | Clark Dyrud | Gen Olson | Jim Ramstad | Mark Stenglein | Mary's Page )
Meet Erik Paulsen (01/25/08)
He's the Republican who's running for Congress in the Third District (that's Jim Ramstad's seat).
Third District DFLers (01/11/08)
The three Democrats who want to take Jim Ramstad's seat in Congress are live on the Almanac couch as we bring you a conversational debate. Hopefuls Ashwin Madia, Jim Hovland and Terri Bonoff chat with Cathy and Eric.
DFLers Dive Into 3rd
11/14/07
So much for the race to replace Congressman Jim Ramstad being a two-person race. The DFL field has gotten complicated. State Senator Terri Bonoff was the frontrunner or the only DFL candidate for a while, but that's no longer true.
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Bonoff Battle
11/05/07
It's just hours after Terri Bonoff officially announced her campaign for the 3rd Congressional District to replace Congressman Jim Ramstad and the war of words has begun. In this district where a Democrat hasn't won in decades, but now appears in play, Bonoff will try to cast herself as a moderate.
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( categories: Defense | Health Care | Transportation | 11/2007 | Jim Ramstad | Terri Bonoff | Mary's Page )
The Panel (10/12/07)
This week's version of the panel talks about politics near and far. Republicans Sarah Janecek and Andy Brehm square off against DFLers Wy Spano and Jane Ranum.
CD 3 Frontrunners
09/24/07
The field is quickly being formed to replace Congressman Jim Ramstad. On the DFL side, Andy Luger is out and he was seen as a frontrunner. So Luger, Humphrey, Lillehaug, Ruud and Luther are all not running. State Senator Terri Bonoff is running and everyone I talk to sees her as the frontrunner.
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( categories: 09/2007 | Brian Sullivan | Erik Paulsen | Geoff Michel | Jim Ramstad | Joyce Peppin | Kurt Zellers | Melissa Hortman | Rich Stanek | Steve Kelley | Steve Simon | Terri Bonoff | Mary's Page )
The Monologue (09/21/07)
Dominic Papatola has some advice for two newly unemployed and prominent Twin Citians.
GOP to "Break a Sweat"
09/18/07
The Republican Party just held a press conference questioning Al Franken's fundraising, but what I'm more interested in is the Ramstad seat. Party Chair Ron Carey said they used to just check off the box, knowing the western suburbs were in safe Republican hands; now he says they'll have to "break a sweat" to keep the seat.
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Ramstad Replacement
09/17/07
I've known Jim Ramstad my whole life. When he was a state legislator struggling with alcoholism and woke up in trouble after a bad binge, he called my father, longtime AP reporter Gene Lahammer. Ramstad asked my dad's advice; my father told him to be honest, tell the world he had a problem and that he was going to get help.
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