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BREAKING: COLEMAN LEADS MONDALE BY 3 POINTS IN MINNESOTA, A LIBERAL STRONGHOLD.

Ventura Appoints Barkley SenatorGovernor Ventura has named the Independence Party's Dean Barkley to fill the Senate seat of the late Senator Paul Wellstone His announcement was timed to happen at the exact same time Norm Coleman and Walter Mondale began their first and only U.S. Senate debate. Ventura says he is angry that debate organizers excluded Independence Party's Jim Moore from the debate. Moore has polled in single digits, and organizers say he doesn't have enough support to merit inclusion. Ventura said last week that he would wait until after the election to make his appointment. After Wellstone was killed...

The ENEMY forged the stolen steel Delighted at the pain we would soon feel A hot branding iron to burn a 9 and 11 In the hearts of all righteous under Heaven The demons smiled and admired their work Then dedicated it with an unholy curse The plans were laid well, the deceptions intact With stooges called "martyrs" they began the attack They boarded the planes with thin, tight-lipped smiles Politely nodding to each small child - In a short time they’d know TERROR too real When their KILLERS captured the pilot’s wheel May the TWIN TOWERS of bright beacon...

Press Release Source: Pioneer Press St. Paul Pioneer Press - Minnesota Public Radio Poll Shows Former V.P. Walter Mondale Trailing in Volatile Senate Race Sunday November 3, 2:05 am ET ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- With 10 percent of voters still undecided, former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman has a 6-percentage-point lead over former Vice President Walter Mondale in statewide poll results for Minnesota's U. S. Senate race. With voter volatility making measurements of the state's public opinion a difficult task, results show Coleman, a Republican, with 47 percent, and Mondale with 41 percent. The poll, conducted for...

The ENEMY forged the stolen steel Delighted at the pain we would soon feel A hot branding iron to burn a 9 and 11 In the hearts of all righteous under Heaven The demons smiled and admired their work Then dedicated it with an unholy curse The plans were laid well, the deceptions intact With stooges called "martyrs" they began the attack They boarded the planes with thin, tight-lipped smiles Politely nodding to each small child - In a short time they’d know TERROR too real When their KILLERS captured the pilot’s wheel May the TWIN TOWERS of bright beacon...

Claiming that a Star Tribune Minnesota Poll this week has unfairly influenced the campaign for governor, an Independence Party leader has filed a complaint against the newspaper with the Minnesota News Council. Following a one-day poll conducted Monday, the newspaper reported on Wednesday that IP gubernatorial nominee Tim Penny had fallen well behind Republican Tim Pawlenty and DFLer Roger Moe. Peter Tharaldson, IP chairman for the Fifth Congressional District, said Friday that the poll should not have been conducted at a time when all campaigns were shut down during the period of mourning for U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone. "This haste...

<p>Coleman: 'We have a chance to make it a positive event'</p> <p>ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Responding to a request from U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has decided to pull an ad attacking Coleman's Democratic opponent in Minnesota, Walter Mondale.</p>

(Excerpt): [Coleman's] campaign received an unexpected flood of contributions from people who were offended by the Wellstone memorial service -- $150,000 on Wednesday alone, Republican officials say. Now, Coleman must draw distinctions between himself and the opposition while not appearing insensitive to Wellstone's memory or overly deferential to Mondale's stature.

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Some political failures just can’t seem to stay away from Washington. It’s like a magnet for power hungry fat cats. This is true for ex-democratic Vice-Presidents. Walter Mondale lost in 1984 and Gore lost in 2000. Why can’t they take the same road as Dan Quayle? At least Mr. Quayle was smart enough to know he didn’t have a chance. It’s apparent they couldn’t do their jobs as Vice-President, so why did they think that Americans could trust them as The President? Both failed attempts have led them to crawl back to the DNC for another chance. Although they were...

A couple of new generic House polls just released are pointing to what a lot of the little, individual CD polls are saying: the GOP is going to hold the U. S. House of Representatives. In fact, most of the polls are showing momentum in the GOP direction. Here's a quick summary: ABC News poll (conducted Oct. 24-27) shows GOP leading 49% to 47%, where the dems led 49-47 last time. Newsweek poll (Oct. 24-25) shows GOP leading 46-43% where dems led 46-43 last time. CNN/Time poll (Oct 23-24) shows Dems leading 47-43, BUT they led 46-40 the previous time...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The family of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone has asked that Vice President Dick Cheney not attend Tuesday night's memorial service in Minnesota, sources told CNN. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, the former governor of neighboring Wisconsin, will represent the White House at Wellstone's memorial service instead. Wellstone, D-Minnesota, was locked in a neck-and-neck race with former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman when he was killed in a plane crash Friday. Wellstone's wife, daughter, three campaign aides and two pilots also died in the crash. Cheney's wife, Lynne, had been scheduled to go to Minnesota...

The instant conventional wisdom, formed before he has even formally entered the race for the late Paul Wellstone's Senate seat, is that former vice president Walter Mondale has it in the bag. Stories over the weekend helpfully suggested that Republican candidate Norm Coleman essentially pack it in — that he go through the motions of campaigning and live to run another year. A closely related piece of conventional wisdom has it that Wellstone would probably have won the race had he not been tragically killed, along with his wife, his daughter, and six others, in a plane crash on Friday....

Signed by 1.65 million Japanese citizens, the petition was presented to President Clinton on November 22, 1993 by the parents of Yoshihiro Hattori, who had just finished a year-long gun control campaign throughout the United States. The Brady Bill, which mandates a five-day waiting period and background check for those who want to buy a handgun, was enacted by the U.S. Congress just days later. At a December 3, 1993 meeting in Nagoya, Ambassador Mondale thanked the Hattoris for their efforts in America which he said had contributed to the bill's passage. The ambassador gave them a copy of the...

Patricia Lopez, Rochelle Olson and Eric Black Star Tribune Published Oct. 28, 2002 COLE28 While U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman was saying Sunday that it was "too soon" to resume talk about politics, state GOP chairman Ron Eibensteiner said that as of Wednesday, Republicans would be back in business and that campaigns should resume with "full vigor." And if former Vice President Walter Mondale emerges as the new Democratic candidate, Eibensteiner said, the party will not be shy about pointing out the differences between him and Coleman. "Voters will be looking at someone who was a vice president and senator...

Received this in my email box tonight http://www.rnc.org/flash/bushsavestheday.html

We are a little over two weeks away from the election. So I ask you the same question I asked myself. Who is going to win the battle for the senate? I have done extensive research and watched the trends for a while now, just like many of you. I finished a week ago a statistical analysis of voting trends in Georgia. Let me also state that most elections are referendums on the incumbents. Candidates have to expose the incumbent. Dole failed to do this in 1996. So here are my predictions. GA- Max Cleland is in trouble. Do not...

Cyberprotesters President Bush's visit to Rochester Friday included a new cyberspace protest. It marked the unveiling of http://www.bushboy.com, which attempts to paint Norm Coleman as a tool of big business and as being beholden to Bush. "We're entertaining ourselves and figure if we make ourselves laugh, we can make others laugh, too," said Rob Davis, of Minneapolis, one of the Web site's creators. "We're trying to make a joke out of Norm Coleman's indebtedness to Bush."

Socialist Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) is accused of inciting "union thugs" to rough up a GOP cameramen at a 'Fair Trade' Rally. The cameraman said he was punched and shoved after Wellstone pointed him out. The Senator did nothing to stop the assault but can be heard continuing his speech in the background saying "keep on marching and keep on fighting" three times. Steelworkers' Union members were responsible for 'security'. See the video at bureaucrash.com.

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Oct 18, 2002 3:30 pm US/Central (AP)-(Rochester, MN)- President Bush took the stage before a roaring crowd of about five-thousand people today in Rochester. It took 30 seconds for the applause to die down enough for him to announce that he came to town to support the Republican ticket. He rattled off the names of all the G-O-P candidates for statewide office as U-S Senate candidate Norm Coleman and gubernatorial candidate Tim Pawlenty stood at his sides. Bush told the crowd that Pawlenty had proved that he knew how to get the job done. Then he said he needed Coleman...

<p>NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — President Bush yesterday hit fund-raisers in Georgia and Florida for embattled Republicans — including his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush — kicking off a money drive that will culminate with 14 straight days of campaigning before the Nov. 5 elections.</p>

Freepers.......time is almost GONE to help Republicans WIN BACK the Senate! We need to contribute money NOW in order to help. I just gave $100 by credit card today to the National Republican Senatorial Committe. Please match my challenge, or at least contribute something.. Click here to visit the NRSC to help. If you prefer to give to individual campaigns, here is a GREAT site with discussion of the Senate races, including the 7 seats that are up for grabs. This site also has a link to each of the Senate campaign websites. One of the states will SURPRISE you!...

Predictions?

Send A Student To Minnesota! DSA’s national electoral project this year is the Minnesota Senate Election. Together with YDS, DSA’s Youth Section, we are mobilizing to bring young people to Minnesota. Minnesota is one of the few states that allow same day voter registration. We will therefore focus our energy on registering young people. Wellstone will need a high percentage of young people to register and vote for him if he is to stave off the campaign that Bush, the Republicans and the Greens are waging against him. He is the Right’s Number One electoral target. Because we are focusing...

PIONEER PRESS/MPR POLL: Race for governor is in near 3-way tie BY PATRICK SWEENEY Pioneer Press Tim Penny, Tim Pawlenty and Roger Moe are locked in a statistical dead heat in their campaign for Minnesota governor, a new public opinion poll shows. But there are significantly more voters who hold a favorable view of Penny, the Independence Party candidate, than there are who view Pawlenty or Moe positively, the poll shows. It also suggests Moe, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate, would have a significant lead over Republican Pawlenty if they were the only two candidates in the race. The statewide poll, which...

<p>The reelection campaign of Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone tried to address one of its most nagging criticisms Tuesday: that Wellstone, the cage-rattling, arm-waving populist, is antibusiness.</p> <p>Flanked by U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. -- a former vice presidential candidate and possible 2004 presidential contender often considered to be one of the most probusiness, protrade Democrats -- Wellstone talked to the newly formed Business Leaders for Wellstone. It's a title that even its organizers acknowledge might be hard for some to swallow.</p>

<p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn — A statewide poll shows support remains virtually equal for Senate candidates Paul Wellstone and Norm Coleman in one of the nation's more closely watched races.</p> <p>After months of campaigning, Wellstone, the two-term Democratic incumbent, is favored by 47 percent of likely voters surveyed in the Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Forty-three percent favor Coleman, a Republican and former St. Paul mayor. A February Minnesota Poll showed Wellstone a Green Party candidate Ed McGaa drew 3 percent, while 5 percent had no opinion. The poll of 812 Minnesotans was conducted June 20 to 24 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.</p>

Luther vs. Kline III: Will the Result Be Different This Time? Earlier this month, Leonard Joseph, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's director of financial services, distributed a memo to political action committees that had contributed to Republican John Kline in his 1998 or 2000 challenge to Rep. Bill Luther (D-Minn.). Joseph's goal, stated forthrightly in the communication, was to "lead you to the conclusion that you should either throw your support to Congressman Luther or decide to spend your resources somewhere else." The memo, which sets forth six points explaining why Kline can't win in 2002 (and is therefore a...

<p>Democratic Rep. Bill Luther avoided a November showdown with a well-financed GOP incumbent by announcing he would switch to a new district in search of a fifth term in Congress.</p> <p>Luther currently represents Minnesota's 6th District, but he said Monday he would run in the 2nd District rather than face Rep. Mark Kennedy, who was bumped into the 6th by post-census redistricting.</p>

<p>The two GOP candidates for governor revealed some differences on environmental issues in a debate Monday night sponsored by the Minnesota League of Conservation Voters.</p> <p>Entrepreneur Brian Sullivan said that only when the market doesn't function is it time for government to get involved in regulation. House Majority Leader Tim Pawlenty said that it's not a good idea to rely on market forces when dealing with the environment.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In his 2001 book "The Conscience of a Liberal," Sen. Paul Wellstone said he felt as though he has spent 80 percent of his time in recent years "playing defense" -- blocking legislation, not passing it.</p> <p>"Sometimes I win, often I lose," the Minnesota Democrat wrote.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Until recently, it seemed that Democrats could count on lopsided financial support from all 11 of Minnesota's American Indian tribes.</p> <p>Of the tribes' $367,501 in donations to federal campaigns from 1993 through 2000, Republicans got only $15,201.</p>

<p>Enthused by their capture of official major-party status through Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential showing, the Minnesota Green Party is on a mission to eclipse Gov. Jesse Ventura's Independence Party (IP) as the dominant "third party" in the state.</p> <p>Political experts and leaders of other parties say it could do just that, and inflict serious collateral damage on the DFL Party along the way.</p>

<p>Saying that he is still undecided about seeking another term, Gov. Jesse Ventura proposed Friday that his Independence Party pick a successor gubernatorial candidate with the understanding that the candidate would step aside should Ventura run.</p> <p>"If my party feels that I am unfair to them, then they should go ahead and find another candidate, but with the full knowledge that if I do decide to run that that candidate certainly would then withdraw and throw he or she's support to me because, obviously, I'm the most winnable candidate," Ventura said during an interview with the Star Tribune.</p>

Speaker of House makes Coast stop for Republicans Hastert on campaign circuit to rally for party members in Congress By JEFF ZELENY CHICAGO TRIBUNE GULFPORT - The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives moved easily among the party faithful who had gathered at the Great Southern Club to write checks for a Mississippi congressman's re-election bid and to shake the hand of the House's leading Republican. But a telling question arose from the back of the room. "Is that the speaker over there?" asked Mercer Miller, a longtime Mississippi Republican activist, pointing to one of J. Dennis Hastert's bodyguards....

Subj: Judge Pickering's nomination blocked & the latest news from the Senate races Date: 03/20/2002 7:37:27 PM Central Standard Time From: billfrist@listserv.nrsc.org To: skcalien@aol.com Dear NRSC E-member, In a jarring reminder of why we must elect a Bush Majority this November, Senate Democrats killed the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering, President Bush's choice for the federal bench. President Bush lamented "We are seeing a pattern where too often judicial confirmations are turned into ideological battles that delay justice and hurt our democracy." One more reason to try and sign up as many E-members as you can by telling them to...

DFL DROPS TAX HIKE BOMB, TARGETS MIDDLE CLASS- Senate Democratic "double whammy" would increase welfare, raise taxes -(St. Paul) - On Monday, Democrats in the Minnesota Senate unveiled a plan to scrap all of the income tax reductions undertaken in recent years, raising personal income taxes on working Minnesotans by almost $2 billion. Combined with the Senate DFL's plan to raise the gas tax, this raises the total of their tax hike proposals for the next three years to $5 billion. The tax hike not only is intended to address the budget deficit, but also to undo the welfare...