Capitol View: October 25, 2012 Archive
The Daily Digest (Wellstone remembered, Rape an issue in POTUS race, Ads & Votes an issue in 8th)
Posted at 6:24 AM on October 25, 2012
by Tom Scheck
Filed under: Daily Digest
It's the 10th anniversary of a plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, their daughter and several campaign staffers. A memorial service will be held in Eveleth today.
8th District
Republican Chip Cravaack and DFLer Rep. Rick Nolan are sparring over ads and voting records.
Proposed Constitutional Amendments
The St. Cloud State Survey says voters are poised to defeat the attempt to ban same-sex marriage but pass the Voter ID amendment.
Voter ID
Charges fly over military voting in the proposed Voter ID amendment.
Amendment to Ban Same-Sex Marriage
A Hastings minister's Hitler reference draws an outcry.
The Star Tribune has stories on the internal debate that families are having over the amendment. In one instance will the family follow their church or the Bible's teaching. In another story, the focus is on a family's shift away from the Catholic Church for its stance on the amendment.
Economy
New home sales jumped 5.7% in September.
The U.S. is suing Bank of America over mortgages.
Best Buy shakes up its leadership lineup.
Imation plans to cut hundreds of jobs.
Under the Dome
Finance and Commerce says a change to property tax law meant to garner job creation but evidence of the new jobs is spotty at best.
Ranchers back the wolf hunt but say it won't save livestock.
Congress
U.S. e-mails offer a glimpse of what the U.S. knew in the hours after the embassy attack in Libya.
Race for Legislature
Gov. Dayton says he'll reimburse the state for half of the cost of the state plane to Bemidji. The announcement came as Dayton ramps up his campaign efforts for candidates. He was in Bemidji to rally students and campaign on behalf of DFL legislative candidates.
Voters are being led astray in an open state house race that features Republican Stacey Stout and Democrat Peter Fischer.
Race for Congress
MPR has a profile of Democrat Jim Graves, who is challenging GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann.
The Star Tribune profiles the race between GOP Rep. John Kline and Democrat Mike Obermueller.
The PoliGraph says Obermueller's ad claims hold up.
The son of a Democratic Congressman resigned after video revealed that he was discussing how to cast fake ballots.
Race for Senate
Republican Kurt Bills is readying his first ads of the campaign.
Race for President
President Obama will again push for a "grand bargain" with Republicans to fix the national debt. The news comes as he lays out his second term agenda (if elected).
Republican Richard Mourdock's comments on rape have increased the furor over social issues in this country. Mourdock is in a tight Senate race in Indiana.
Mitt Romney's campaign said he disagrees with Mourdock's assertion but will continue to back him.
President Obama said on NBC's Tonight Show that "rape is rape."
Mitt Romney says he's upbeat about his chances but the electoral college math is still the same.
Polling shows the national race tied but swing state polls continue to favor Obama.
Romney will deliver an economic speech on Friday.
Low-budget, 'local' group poised to run anti-Cravaack ad in 8th
Posted at 12:26 PM on October 25, 2012
by Mark Zdechlik
(2 Comments)
Filed under: Campaign 2008, Campaign 2012: U.S. MN CD8
A group calling itself "Regular Folks of the Range" says it will air an ad at least 1,600 times on regional cable channels throughout northeastern Minnesota. Duluth-based construction worker and documentary producer Tom Selinski produced the anti-Cravaack spot.
"Part of what irritated me, got me to do this, was the amount of money being dumped in here and it's not from around here," said Selinski.
Selinski's said his ad features Iron Range miners. Among other things, they criticize Cravaack for a being a friend of businesses not workers.
Selinski said he produced the ad at his own expense and that he's close to raising the nearly $10,000 cost of airing it.
Outside groups have spent more than $ 6.3 million on the race in Minnesota's 8th District with spending opposing Cravaack outpacing spending opposing Nolan by about $1 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
(2 Comments)Cravaack continues to lead Nolan in fundraising
Posted at 7:00 PM on October 25, 2012
by Mark Zdechlik
Filed under: Campaign 2012: U.S. MN CD8
Eighth District Congressman Chip Cravaack's campaign says it raised $227,000, October 1st through October 17th. The Republican incumbent ended the latest reporting period with $904,000 in campaign cash on hand.
The new numbers put Cravaack's fundraising total for the 2012 election cycle at $2.16 million.
Cravaack's Democratic challenger, former Congressman Rick Nolan has not released his latest fundraising numbers. But for the year through September, Nolan had raised $814,000.
Although the two candidates bring millions to the race, spending by outside groups is far greater. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, outside spending on Minnesota's 8th District stands at more than $6.3 million. The center's analysis finds spending against Cravaack is outpacing spending to oppose Nolan, by about $1 million.
UPDATE:
Cravaack's DFL challenger, former Congressman Rick Nolan raised $198,000 during the latest reporting period, putting Nolan's running total at a little more than $1 million. Nolan had $477,000 cash-on-hand as of October, 17, 2012.
The Daily Digest (Bills ad widely rebuked, Romney to buy MN ad time, Human Rights Commissioner says amendments 'discriminatory'
Posted at 10:57 PM on October 25, 2012
by Tom Scheck
(3 Comments)
Filed under: Daily Digest
Republican Kurt Bills is running an ad that alleges DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar declined to prosecute Tom Petters because he was a campaign contributor. MPR says Klobuchar, the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the case, the Hennepin County Attorney's office and the trustee for Petter's victims all say the allegations lack credibility.
Amendment to Ban Same-Sex Marriage
The group backing the amendment started running an ad raising the specter of teaching same-sex marriage in schools.
Former GOP state Rep. John Berns says he'll vote no on the amendment.
Voter ID Amendment
MPR says Human Rights Commissioner Kevin Lindsey is openly campaigning against both amendments saying they're discriminatory. Republicans are criticizing him for making the comments.
The New Yorker writes about the Republicans who are pushing Voter ID nationally.
Congress
A new report says the threat of the fiscal cliff is already costing the U.S. jobs.
A Senate report says Medtronic failed to disclose the company's role in editing and writing medical journal articles to downplay the risks of the bone growth product.
Race for Legislature
The state's budget troubles are a major issue in the campaign.
Gov. Dayton will hold a rally in St. Cloud for DFL legislative candidates.
Fox9 takes a look at GOP Sen. David Hann's employment as a health insurance agent and wonders if it creates a conflict of interest. Hann chairs the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. The story was first reported by the liberal blog, MN Progressive Project.
The DFL Party is complaining that a HRCC staffer posed as a Democrat in a letter to the editor.
Meanwhile, House Republicans say a DFL mailing manipulates a photo of GOP Rep. King Banaian, who is of Armenian dissent.. The mailing darkens his skin and puts a crown on his head.
Former Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale and former GOP Gov. Arne Carlson are backing Melisa Franzen in her Minnesota Senate bid. She's challenging GOP Rep. Keith Downey in the open seat in Edina.
Race for Congress
GOP Rep. Chip Cravaack continues to lead Democrat Rick Nolan in fundraising.
The Star Tribune reports Cravaack disclosed that his son's autism played a role in his family relocating to New Hampshire.
Larry Sabato shifted the 8th District race to "Lean Democratic."
A local group known as "Regular Folks of the Range" will start running anti-Cravaack ads.
MPR has a profile of GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann.
The St. Cloud Times has a story saying Bachmann's comments about the "Muslim Brotherhood" have not been validated in light of a recent attack on Libya.
MPR has a look at the race between DFL Rep. Betty McCollum and Republican Tony Hernandez.
Race for President
AP is reporting that Mitt Romney will start running TV ads in Minnesota to widen his path to get to 270 electoral votes.
The presidential campaign has surpassed the $2 billion mark.
President Obama did a round the clock campaign tour. He also cast his early ballot in Illinois.
Romney is offering "Big Change" as an alternative to Obama.
Former Secretary of State Collin Powell is backing Obama's campaign.
Romney adviser John Sununu said Powell is backing Obama because he's black.
An Obama video compares voting to losing your virginity.
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