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4 Minnesotans file papers to begin campaign season
ST. PAUL – The official campaign season started with bipartisan smiles Tuesday, even if no one expects it to end that way.
Minnesota Political Notebook: New purple politicos learn legislative lessons
ST. PAUL - It was easy to tell Capitol regulars from those who do not hang out under the marble dome so much as the 2012 legislative session came to an end: One group wore purple paint and jerseys.
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Delegate decries lack of unity within party
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Their party faces a $1.3 million debt, ideological differences and lingering questions about a sex scandal, and Republicans leaving their state convention Saturday both acknowledged the problems and kept their chins up.
Minnesota GOP Convention Notebook: Paul backers win delegate majority
St. Cloud, Minn. - Ron Paul supporters will dominate the Republican National Convention Minnesota delegation.
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High school teacher from Rosemount wants to take ‘Economics 101’
message to Washington
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Kurt Bills is ready to teach economics to Washington.
Backing his theme of “taking Economics 101 to Washington,” Minnesota Republicans on Friday handed Bills a second-ballot endorsement for U.S. Senate to run against Democrat U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Notebook: Ron Paul feels the love at Minnesota GOP convention
ST. PAUL – Minnesota Republicans endorsed a U.S. Senate candidate at their state convention Friday but saved their biggest reaction for Ron Paul.
RELATED CONTENTUPDATED: Minnnesota Republicans pick Bills to run against Klobuchar
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – First-term state Rep. Kurt Bills is the Minnesota Republican Party’s pick to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Ron Paul adds mystery to Minn. GOP convention
ST. PAUL – Minnesota Republicans gather in St. Cloud this morning, with the official main event picking a candidate to face Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Dayton vetoes $119 million bill to cut Minn. business taxes 
ST. PAUL - Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a smaller tax-relief bill than Republicans wanted, saying Monday that it would cost $119 million over three years, mostly to cut business taxes.
AUDIO: 'We did it,' Lanning says as Dayton signs Vikings stadium bill
ST. PAUL – Minnesota Rep. Morrie Lanning knows how to win elections and football championships, and says getting a new Vikings stadium is much the same.
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Budget debate becomes fodder for campaign platforms
ST. PAUL – Minnesota lawmakers from both parties signal they plan to use last year’s rough budget debate as foundation for this year’s legislative election campaigns.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: Bakk demands open decision on fliers
ST. PAUL - The Senate’s top Democrat does not believe literature some Republicans handed out at the Feb. 7 precinct caucuses cost just $47. And Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, demands that the Senate Rules Committee take up the matter.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: Attention to turn to state government reform
ST. PAUL - The new year could be one of government reform. Minnesota legislative Republicans and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton agree reforming is a top priority, but they may differ on just what that means and how to get there.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: Democrats make property taxes an issue, again
ST. PAUL - Democrats make it clear they blame Republicans for rising property taxes, and will do that even louder in next year’s campaigns.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: Shutdown, stadium mean abnormal summer, fall
ST. PAUL - Many around the Capitol don’t quite understand why temperatures are dipping into the 30s: It can’t be fall already. With the July government shutdown and now the increasingly frantic stadium debate, this has been a strange and busy non-election year.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: Lawmaker says property tax change will be fixed
ST. PAUL - A Minnesota House Republican promises that a property tax change that especially hurts rural Minnesota will be repaired next year.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: Two bright spots in otherwise nasty political time
ST. PAUL – This year will go down as one of the most contentious in Minnesota government history, so exceptions to that attitude are notable. The first exception started out as yet another controversy.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: Job creation back on politicians’ radar
ST. PAUL - This year started with Minnesota political leaders emphasizing the need to create jobs, but the state’s deficit problem sidetracked much of that talk.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: DFL goes after Pawlenty’s presidential campaign
St. Paul - Democratic-Farmer-Laborites aren’t taking it easy on Tim Pawlenty just because he’s from Minnesota.
RELATED CONTENTMinnesota Political Notebook: New legislators create new end-game questions
ST. PAUL - Fifty-four Republicans serving their first year in the Minnesota Legislature face their first end-of-session circus, and no one knows just how they will react.
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