Political Note #258 Collin Peterson MN CD 07

December 15, 2019
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Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website. President Clinton's trial in the Senate. 2020 General Election There is a row of counties along Minnesota’s southern border. If the three counties in that row in the southwest corner of the state were part of MN 07, then Collin Peterson’s http://www.petersonforcongress.com/ MN 07 would cover the entire western border of Minnesota – three counties deep or more. Collin Peterson’s MN 07? He doesn’t own that district. Maybe Donald Trump owns it. Trump carried it by 30 points. Or GW Bush. Bush carried the district by 14 against Al Gore, by…

Political Note #244 Dan Feehan MN CD 01

October 20, 2019
Federal Elections / General Election / 2020 / US Congress / Year / US Congress 2020 / State / Type of Election / Political Notes / Minnesota

Check out the website: Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website. Countries Separating. Joining. Marrying. Divorcing; They want out. 2020 General Election A Democrat can win MN 01. Tim Walz did. Tim resisted the effect of the changing population in the district. The district was turning R. Tim Walz resisted successfully. Walz 53-47 in 2006 Walz 62-33 in 2008 Walz 49-44 in 2010 Walz 57-42 in 2012 Walz 54-46 in 2014 Walz 50.4-49.6 in 2016 In 2018, Tim Walz ran for governor. And won. In 2020, Dan Feehan https://www.danfeehan.com/ ran for MN 01. And lost. By a little more than 1300 votes…

Political Note #228 Tina Smith MN US Senate

August 2, 2019
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Tina Smith is a solidly liberal Democratic Senator. She is pro-choice, in favor of action against climate change, for progressive criminal justice reform, opposed to e-cigarettes, in favor of gun safety efforts, in favor of financial support for Central American countries to reduce emigration to the US, and in favor of a single payer health care system. The more money she raises, the more she can be sufficiently dominant to scare serious opponents away from running.

Political Note #160 Joe Radinovich MN CD 08

September 6, 2018
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Joe Radinovich has been a state legislator, campaign manager, labor advocate. He is running for an open seat in the US Congress in a district that ranges from the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities to the iron range.

Political Note #122 Dan Feehan MN CD 01

May 13, 2018
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On September 11, 2001, Dan Feehan was in Washington, DC. His public service goal became joining the military. He signed up for ROTC, graduated, and served two combat tours in Iraq from 2006 to 2009. Next, he joined Teach for America and got an internship in the White House. The internship brought him back to the military. After some civilian experiences with the military, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readines

Political Note #121 Angie Craig MN CD 02

May 9, 2018
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Angie Craig has been head of human resources for a large corporation. Her most recent non-political job was head of communications for St. Judes (a familiar name to those who give to medical charities). The divide in the Democratic Party has largely to do with economic issues, how to work with corporations. Angie Craig, like others who share her perspective, is comfortable with large corporations. She lost a close race in 2016 and is trying to unseat the freshman incumbent who defeated her.

Political Note #115 Tina Smith MN US Senate

April 13, 2018
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Tina Smith has been involved in Minnesota politics for a long time. She came to Minnesota from Arizona to take a marketing job at General Mills. She later worked on her own as a marketing consultant. She also worked for the Planned Parenthood office serving Minnesota and the Dakotas. She worked as chief of staff for mayors and governors, ran political campaigns for governors. Now she is running for the US Senate, seeking to get elected on her own.

Political Note #87 Dean Phillips MN 03

December 23, 2017
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Dean Phillips is a candidate of Minneapolis' western suburbs. A wealthy CEO, a frequent Democratic donor, he has almost as frequently declined to run for office. HIs father, Artie Pfeffer, died fighting in Vietnam when Phillips was six months old. His widowed mother married into the wealthy Phillips family. Adopted son of the family, Dean Phillips was educated for business and was a successful CEO. He says the real family business has been philanthropy. He looks like a pretty good politician, too.

Political Note #33 Rick Nolan MN CD 08

June 8, 2017
Federal Elections / General Election / Lose / State Elections / Lt. Governor / US Congress / Withdraw / Primary / 2018 / Year / Result / State / US Congress 2018 / Type of Election / Political Notes / Minnesota

Rick Nolan is an unusual man and an unusual politician. In his seventies, his current stint as a Congressman is his third career. His first career was also as a politician and Congressman. A young aide to Walter Mondale, after a brief stint as a teacher, he ran for Congress in 1972, lost in a close race, but won handily in the next three elections. In between his stints as a Congressman, Rick Nolan was a politically connected businessman. He was President of the US Export Corporation, then became head of the Minnesota World Trade Center.