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Boehner Bailout of the Clown Car: NRCC Going Into Hock To Waste Money Against Tim Walz, Among Others

By nelsonjs on | From seminal.firedoglake.com
No matter how much the corporate GOP-friendly media tries to cover for Republicans, it’s kinda hard to project the appearance of an unstoppable juggernaut when you have to go into hock to do it. Yet, according to The Politico — and a hat tip to Bluestem Prairie for the link — that’s exactly what the National Republican Congressional Committee is planning: POLITICO has learned that the National Republican Congressional Committee will take a bank loan of at least $6.5 million — but likely...Read Full Story

Friday digest: small towns talk economic stimulus edition

By whyfame on | From hotfeeder.com
Many of the district's papers are reporting about area leaders' hopes that Obama's proposed economic stimulus package might take some of the sting out of state budget shortfall. In Lawmaker warns businesses that state might target taxes, the Post Bulletin's Heather Carlson writes:The Senate Tax Committee chairman issued an ominous warning to Rochester-area business leaders today: Lawmakers and the governor might look to property taxes to solve the state's massive budget deficit...Read Full Story

Demmer challenges Walz and Dems’ ‘culture of dependency’

By topstoriesstpaul on | From topstoriesstpaul.com
As expected , state Rep. Randy Demmer announced this morning that he’ll be challenging U.S. Rep. Tim Walz for the First Congressional District seat. In a call with the Minnesota Independent, he said he’s a clear alternative to second-termer Walz, who he says supports a “culture of dependency, entitlement” and the “idea that government is supposed to provide for everybody.” A farmer for 18 years, the Hayfield Republican is taking aim at Walz’s seat for the second time: In 2008, he vied for...Read Full Story

DFL calls on Quist to apologize for terrorism comment

By topstoriesstpaul on | From topstoriesstpaul.com
Rep. Tim Walz and Allen Quist The state Democratic party called on Republican candidate Allen Quist to apologize on Tuesday for statements he made at a Wabasha Republicans Christmas party that called the battle against Democrats bigger than the battle against terrorism. Quist told the Minnesota Independent over the weekend that his comments were taken out of context by liberal bloggers. “Mr. Quist is backtracking and saying that his comments were taken out of context,” said DFL chairman...Read Full Story

GOP’s Demmer to challenge Walz

By topstoriesstpaul on | From topstoriesstpaul.com
State Rep. Randy Demmer (R-Hayfield) will be challenging U.S. Rep. Tim Walz in the First Congressional District, according to an email obtained over the weekend by Bluestem Prairie . The email states that Demmer, who was elected to the state House in 2002, will announce at a Tuesday morning press conference in Rochester that he’s in the race. It’s his second shot at the seat; he ran for the GOP endorsement in 2008, but lost to Brian Davis. Walz won with more than 62 percent of the vote...Read Full Story
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Tim Walz's STOCK Act approved by House, Senate
Walz's STOCK Act was a bipartisan hit, but House GOPers stripped out a key provision.​Today, the U.S. House followed the Senate and passed a Congressional insider trading ban originally introduced by  
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Walz happy to see STOCK bill pass the House
MANKATO — A bill prohibiting lawmakers and their staffs from using inside information to enrich themselves passed the House Thursday — a dramatic change of fortune for a piece of reform that Mankato Congressman Tim Walz, the chief sponsor of the bill ...  
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Tim Walz one of 20 most vulnerable incumbents, Democrats say
Tim Walz is vulnerable​Representative Tim Walz is vulnerable to a Republican challenge in his fall re-election campaign, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. That much  
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Walz raises $1 mllion in 2011
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA - Minnesota 1st District Democratic incumbent Rep. Tim Walz fundraised significantly higher in the fourth quarter than his Republican challengers Sen. Mike Parry (R-Waseca) and Allen Quist, according to Tuesday's FEC repor.  
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Podcast: Interview with 1st District Congressman Tim Walz, D
Listen to the Jan. 6, 2012 interview with 1st District Congressman Tim Walz. Free Press Editor Joe Spear and Free Press political reporter Mark Fischenich spent 30 minutes with Walz.  
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Walz looks to force House action on the STOCK Act | Devin Henry
WASHINGTON — The sponsors of the STOCK Act, a bill to ban lawmakers from using nonpublic information they receive in their official capacities to profit off of the stock market, will use a rarely successful procedural maneuver called a “discharge petition” to try forcing the House of Representatives to vote on the bill. Rep. Tim Walz, a Minnesota Democrat who is the author of the bill, announced ...  
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Slaughter and Walz Say Stop Obstructing the STOCK Act
Jan 31, 2012 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- WASHINGTON-- Today Reps. Louise Slaughter, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, (NY-28) and Tim Walz (MN-01) said that obstruction to the Stop Trading on ...  
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