Capitol View: October 25, 2010 Archive

Dayton postpones events

Posted at 10:25 AM on October 25, 2010 by Tim Pugmire
Filed under: Campaign 2010, Campaign 2010: Minnesota Governor

DFL gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton has postponed several campaign appearances today due to illness.

A campaign spokeswoman says Dayton has laryngitis. He was scheduled to tour a solar energy company in Bloomington and an organic dairy farm near Altura. Dayton also had a fundraiser tonight in Rochester.

Dayton is expected to be back in action Tuesday for some media interviews and the next gubernatorial debate in Mankato.

SCSU survey puts Dayton ahead by 10 points

Posted at 10:56 AM on October 25, 2010 by Tim Pugmire
Filed under: Campaign 2010, Campaign 2010: Minnesota Governor

Results of a new St. Cloud State University survey show DFL Mark Dayton with a 10 percentage point lead in the race for governor.

Dayton had the support of 40 percent of likely voters, followed by Republican Tom Emmer at 30 percent and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner at 19 percent. Five percent were undecided.

The statewide survey interviewed 628 Minnesotans between October 10 to October 21. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Pawlenty to campaign in eight states in final week

Posted at 1:04 PM on October 25, 2010 by Tom Scheck
Filed under: Campaign 2010, Campaign 2010: Minnesota Governor, Pawlenty travel, Tim Pawlenty

Gov. Pawlenty is scheduled to make campaign stops in Texas, New Mexico, Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota and Iowa in the final week of the campaign.

Pawlenty will be campaigning mostly on behalf of the Republican candidates for governor. Some of the events are closed fundraisers (Texas and Louisiana ). Other events are rallies for candidates (NM, OH, PA, IA).

Pawlenty, who campaigned for Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Emmer over the past two days, will attend a rally for Emmer on Saturday in Blaine. He will also spend the Monday before Election Day campaigning for Emmer.

Emmer raised $2.8 million for campaign

Posted at 5:37 PM on October 25, 2010 by Tom Scheck
Filed under: Campaign 2010

Republican Tom Emmer's campaign for governor reports raising $2.8 million. Emmer's campaign said in a news release that Emmer $2.58 million in 2010. He reports having $461,152 left in the bank when the books were closed on October 19th. The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board are scheduled to release the reports tomorrow at 8AM. Here's the full release from Emmer's campaign:

The Tom Emmer for Governor Campaign today released the summary of the Pre-General Election Finance Report. The campaign has brought in a total of $2.8 million this campaign, more than $1.7 million since the July report.

"Over the last sixteen months Tom Emmer has worked tirelessly to connect with Minnesotans from throughout this great state as he's campaigned for governor," said Cullen Sheehan. "He has spread a vision of government living within its means and spurring economic growth to put Minnesotans back to work. These fundraising totals affirm that his vision for Minnesota is one that resonates."

The fundraising total includes over $2 million from individual contributors in 2010. The campaign has collected $2.69 million in 2010 and $114,802 in 2009. The report will show $461,152 cash on hand.

Update: The Emmer campaign misreported the campaign finance figures by $108,000 to their advantage. Emmer campaign spokesman Carl Kuhl says there was a software glitch that prompted the computer to consider $108,000 as a receipt instead of a transfer.

The up to date numbers are:

total raised $2.589 million
Cash on Hand is $352,723.