Polinaut: October 18, 2007 Archive

Daily Digest 10-18-07

Posted at 9:03 AM on October 18, 2007 by Mike Mulcahy
Filed under: Daily Digest

More news to sort through today than yesterday, so let's get started:

State

Has the Star Tribune found the cause of the 35W bridge collapse? Only unnamed sources know for sure.

MNDot Commissioner Carol Molnau appears to making the rounds of the TV stations. Last week she spoke to WCCO. Now she talks to KARE.

More bad news on the job front. MPR has news on job cuts related to the housing slump, and the medical device industry.

The AP has a good story following up on the money drug companies have been paying to doctors.

Congress

The House is set to vote on an override of the president's SCHIP veto, but it's clear that the votes aren't there. The Washington Post includes the issue in a piece about President Bush's press conference yesterday.

Pat Kessler does a reality check of the ad that targets Rep. Michele Bachmann on the SCHIP issue.

It seems like everybody is angry at their cell phone company, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar is getting a lot of press for her bill to change the industry's billing practices. The Star Tribune has a story about a hearing on the measure Wednesday, and MPR talked to Klobuchar about it.

2008

Rudy Giuliani is in Minneapolis Thursday morning, and the Fargo Forum takes a look at presidential fundraising in North Dakota and Minnesota. The former New York mayor was the top fundraiser among Republican presidential candidates here during the last quarter.

And it looks like Giuliani may soon have one fewer GOP rival.

Finally

This one is guaranteed to make you cringe.

Adios to Brownback

Posted at 12:28 PM on October 18, 2007 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

Sam Brownback is leaving the race for president. It's believed he'll run for governor in 2010 in Kansas.

I'm deleting him from Select A Candidate. But I hope to have a tool on the page soon so that those who take the "quiz" can see all candidates, or just the ones who are still in the race. FYI, he garnered very few "matches" among those taking the Select A Candidate survey. About the same as Ron Paul, and miles ahead of Mike Gravel, who has actually articulated very few positions.

Duncan Hunter remains the most-often-matched candidate in the race. 76,182 people had taken the survey as of this morning.

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani was in Minneapolis today. Listen to what he had to say (RealAudio).

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SCHIP override vote

Posted at 1:57 PM on October 18, 2007 by Bob Collins

Here, courtesy of the AP are the votes on the override (which failed) of President Bush's veto of the kid's health care bill.

IOWA
Democrats - Boswell, Y; Braley, Y; Loebsack, Y.
Republicans - King, N; Latham, Y.

MINNESOTA
Democrats - Ellison, Y; McCollum, Y; Oberstar, Y; Peterson, Y;
Walz, Y.
Republicans - Bachmann, N; Kline, N; Ramstad, Y.

WISCONSIN
Democrats - Baldwin, Y; Kagen, Y; Kind, Y; Moore, Y; Obey, Y.
Republicans - Petri, Y; Ryan, N; Sensenbrenner, N.

NORTH DAKOTA
Democrats - Pomeroy, Y.

SOUTH DAKOTA
Democrats - Herseth Sandlin, Y.