Mari Urness Pokornowski, of Cokato, president of the Board of Directors of the DFL Feminist Caucus, resigned Saturday because of the group’s endorsement of Al Franken over his opponent in the Democrat’s nomination battle in the U.S. Senate race.
Pokornowski was not immediately available Sunday morning.
Jackie Stevenson, 73, political director of the DFL Feminist Caucus, helped [...]
The DFL had an interfaith service at 9 a.m., and now the convention is looking at electing state directors. The female slate is up right now, and the 8 under consideration are:
Nimco Ahmed - CD5
Lori Bergland-Olson - CD7
Deb Hogenson - CD 1
Josie Johnson - CD 1
Grace Kelly - CD 4
Jeanette Martimo - CD 8
Shanti Shah [...]
Betsy Sundquist captured the spirit of last night’s event, including the fact that Mark Dayton
was beaming. Rumor has it that Dayton spent $100,000 on last night’s
party. He worked it hard, personally greeting and chatting with every
delegate who came through the door.
Worth
noting is that for many of these delegates, this is their [...]
I think Amy Klobuchar is cute.
That’s not satire, it’s not a joke, and it has nothing to do with whether I think the former Hennepin County prosecutor is a good U.S. Senator.
I just happen to think she’s good-looking. And for the record, I think it’s too early in her senatorial career to judge how effective [...]
This concludes the coverage by Politics in Minnesota and the Saint Paul Legal Ledger Capitol Report team at the 2008 DFL State Convention. The convention still has to digest a very large number of national delegate contenders because everyone wants to go to Denver. We will release the results of the DFL’s platform action agenda [...]
There are certainly more vendor and advocacy tables at the DFL convention than the GOP had. We spoke with a few more public policy advocates this weekend.
Minnesotans for Impartial Courts had a well-presented table, devoted to their message of keeping the money out of judicial elections.
Their motto is “Judges based on merit. Elections based on [...]
Right now, Al Franken and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer are talking about the big issues, but their nomination contest isn’t the only thing happening today. To reach out to people across Minnesota, the DFL has many ‘Constituency Caucuses.’ (Here’s the DFL’s website section about the groups.) These caucuses have tables at the front of the convention center, [...]
Convention goers hanging out in the Mayo Civic Center’s auditorium — where vendors had booths set up, and where Nelson-Pallmeyer’s and opponent Al Franken’s supporters had tables directly across the room from each other — hauled chairs in front of televisions to listen to U.S. Senate candidate Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer’s concession speech Saturday afternoon.
The auditorium crowd [...]
Just after the DFL Feminist Caucus announced they’d endorsed Al Franken, U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN4) stopped by the press area and said she is still concerned about Franken and the distraction some of his past writings on porn and violence against women are posing for Democrats.
"I am just speaking for myself," McCollum said, adding [...]
State Sen. Ellen Anderson, DFL-St. Paul, got some face time with DFL state convention delegates Saturday afternoon to plug the constitutional amendment proposal for increased environment and arts funding.
The delegates meeting in Rochester agreed to suspend the convention rules on a voice vote to let Anderson speak about the sales tax increase proposal that will [...]
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