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Politics in Minnesota: The Directory

The playbook of Minnesota politics.

The book includes biographies of Minnesota's constitutional officers, state department commissioners and members of Congress, leadership and legislative committee rosters, and hundreds of names and numbers for key staff. The with nearly 800 pages, The Directory provide a navigational guide to Minnesota government.

There's a reason sports lovers refer to it as "the playbook of Minnesota politics" and political junkies refer to it as "the Bible of Minnesota politics." It is, indeed, both.

Politics In Minnesota: The Directory is the book on Minnesota government and politics. The Directory helps both political novices and experts alike understand what drives decision-making at the Minnesota Legislature. Features biographies of Minnesota's 201 state legislators, maps and profiles of each legislative district, contacts in the press, Capitol staff, committee rosters and staff, detailed maps of the Capitol, election results, demographics and more.

The most current edition (2007-2008) of The Directory is available for purchase. Use your credit card or PayPal account. Generous volume discounts are available.

Here's what you get in the 2" thick book:

Legislative Membership

Indices of senators and representatives, including room and phone number.

Senate Leadership & Staff

Contact information for leadership and legislative assistants, the whips, caucus research personnel, and nonpartisan officials.

House Leadership & Staff

Contact information for leadership, partisan communications, committee administrators, nonpartisan fiscal analysts, clerks, documents distribution, constituent services and other House Capitol folks.

Legislative Districts

Nearly 500 pages of indispensable data on each of Minnesota's 67 Senate districts and 134 House districts. To understand each legislator, one needs to know about their legislative district. District profiles include:

• A description of each district's culture and history
• The best district maps available
• Statistical breakdowns of election results, the political competitiveness index, and key demographics like unemployment, education, per capita income and poverty
• Lists of towns and counties within each district

Detailed biographies for each of Minnesota's 201 current legislators include:

• Political and civic history
• Professional and life experience beyond politics
• Legislative accomplishments, interests and goals
• Fun facts & trivia: Who has an Egyptian sarcophagus in their office? Six types of granite? A stuffed turkey?
• Complete legislative election histories

Senate Committees

Each Senate committee has counsel, assistants, fiscal analysts and administrators. You probably couldn't find them without this guide. But we will not tell you where they hide the gavels. Includes phone and fax numbers, and the committees' scheduled meetings.

House Committees

A handy index to the many committees of the House. Includes phone and fax numbers, and contacts for assistants and administrators.

Constitutional Officers

Contact information and biographies of Minnesota's elected constitutional officers: Governor Pawlenty, Lt. Governor Molnau, Attorney General Swanson, Secretary of State Ritchie, and Auditor Otto. Also has phone numbers and email addresses direct to their many staffers, and their election statistics.

Department Boards & Agencies

Biographies and contacts for 21 of the state's departments and agencies, including the Metropolitan Council. You too can find out where Lt. Gov. Molnau went to high school. Also features names and contacts for legislative liaisons and communications directors. Information for the Metropolitan Airports Commission, the State Lottery, the Capitol Area Architectural & Planning Board, the Public Utilities Commission, and more. You even get the phone numbers of all seven Supreme Court justices, so you can let Justice Alan Page know he plays the tuba at the Twin Cities Marathon like a pro.

Legislators by City & County

How many times have you been driving around and wondered, who represents this slice of Minnesota? With these indices, you will know right away. Impress your friends and scare your enemies with an unnatural sense of political geography.

United States Congress

Minnesota's eight congress-people and two senators have a great impact on life here, and serving constituents is their primary task. Here you'll find D.C. and Minnesota phone and fax contacts, biographies, election histories, and useful district profiles, including demographic information.

Capitol Press Corps

From the Associated Press to WCCO, when you need to e-mail, fax or call the state's top media, this index will help you get the word out.

Lobbyists

Who are those people around the Capitol all day, hovering at the entrance to the House chamber? The lobbyists, of course, the keepers of the people's right to petition for a redress of grievances. The state's online lobbyist database is helpful, but it doesn't show you what they look like. We do. (Our Weekly Report keeps you up to date on who's working for whom)

Maps

Of course, we have maps of the legislative districts, counties, the Capitol area government complexes, and even floor maps of the Capitol so you can find its many well-hidden offices. And even the secret Capitol porches.

Frequently Called Numbers

Finally, on page 769, the myriad general phone numbers, for the chief clerks and Senate secretaries, the Capitol's periodicals, the Revisor of Statutes, the tour desk, security, TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) access numbers, and of course, the Sergeants at Arms.

Indices

The directory also features a phonetic index, so you don't mess a legislator's name like Ann Lenczewski, and a senority index so you can wow your friends with the knowledge that Speaker Keiliher is 13 terms behind Rep. Phyllis Kahn.