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Mark Dayton
Welcome to Denver!
The image is just about what you'd expect: guy in a cowboy hat, lots of signs saying welcome, multitudes of media and lots of sunshine. Denver is busy and exciting. Delegates, media a politicians are everywhere. David Gillette's essay on it all is hilarious, check it out! We've seen plenty of Minnesotans too. DFL Party Chair Brian Melendez is pictured below riding on the airport tram with delegate Ralph Remington.
Sen. Mark Dayton was also on our plane and eager to invite everyone to his luncheon. I chatted with Buck Humphrey in the airport. Vice President Mondale was on my crew's flight out and he will be part of the Minnesota breakfast at the delegation hotel this morning. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is on the list of podium speakers this afternoon. So look for more coverage of our Minnesotans in Denver later today!
A Guv Race Preview (06/13/08)
Yeah, the 2010 election is a long ways off. But you couldn't tell that at the DFL State convention where a number of governor hopefuls were working the floor. Mary Lahammer reports.
1998 to 2002 (12/28/07)
Jesse Ventura "shocks the world" with his gubernatorial upset. Mary Lahammer records the governor's first international trade mission, to Japan. Ventura announces that he won't seek reelection. And tpt begins a series of candidate personality profiles with a look at Senator Rod Grams and his challenger, Mark Dayton.
2008 Revisited
My Monday entry for the Brain Trust (Republicans Unlikely to Take Back House in '08) prompted a quick reply by the GOP leadership. House Minority Leader Marty Seifert offered a thoughtful rejoinder (Democrats Unlikely to Retain House in '08) to my historical analysis demonstrating the rarity of turnover in party control in consecutive elections for the Minnesota House.
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