Capitol View: April 18, 2006 Archive

Pawlenty on Midmorning

Posted at 10:58 AM on April 18, 2006 by Bob Collins

Gov. Tim Pawlenty was Keri Miller's guest on Midmorning this morning. The audio will be available here. They'll talk about the various issues at the Capitol and maybe, if you listen really close, you can hear Keri's wistful thoughts of what might have been had she become a writer on Polinaut.

Peterson running again

Posted at 11:54 AM on April 18, 2006 by Bob Collins

Collin Peterson is running for re-election, according to a release from his office. Peterson is an interesting guy. His release today is no-nonsense, no-frills. In fact it's just an all-white piece of paper with typewriter-style font. Heck, for all I know, it was typed with a typewriter. No smiling picture of the candidate, no fancy stationery, no Web site address. Nothing.

Gravel '08

Posted at 12:54 PM on April 18, 2006 by Bob Collins

It's a ridiculously slow time of the year for politics -- the Easter break -- and Mike Gravel still couldn't get much coverage of his announcement he's running for president.

Tammy Lee in the 5th

Posted at 1:01 PM on April 18, 2006 by Bob Collins (9 Comments)

A business executive with a background in DFL politics has announced she's now an Independence Party candidate for congress in the 5th District.

Tammy Lee of Golden Valley is a vice president of corporate affairs for Mark Travel Corporation. In 1998, she worked as communications director for Skip Humphrey's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign. Lee says she joined the Independence Party because she believes there's a third way in politics.

Here's her campaign announcement (RealAudio).

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Money chase

Posted at 4:41 PM on April 18, 2006 by Bob Collins

I've been spending parts of the last couple of days updating all the candidate pages on Campaign 2006, and all the district pages to reflect the deadline for the quarterly financial reports from the FEC.

I tend to follow the FEC's lead, and not include candidate loans in the "amount raised" category.

Anyway, if you're interested in the money race, see the individual race pages. Don't have the numbers, that is to say: the FEC numbers, for Klobuchar and Kennedy.

Sixth District is certainly interesting.

Tinklenberg was stronger than I would've thought, although he didn't have a great quarter. Wetterling's numbers are misleading because she still has a pot of cash from her aborted Senate run to use.

Where's that T-shirt now?

Posted at 5:07 PM on April 18, 2006 by Bob Collins (7 Comments)

The blogger known as Norwegianity (he's a very funny writer) has the missing 30 seconds of a video posted on the Klobuchar Web site. Pretty funny stuff.

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