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Posted Preparing You for Silly Talking Points: Budget Edition to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Before I write this I just want to clarify something. I'm from Wisconsin. I love Wisconsin--especially the Packers and cheese, but I will also admit to supporting the Milwaukee Bucks--however I can't let Minnesota Republicans continue to lie about my...
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Posted A Viral Video Without the Terrible Dancing to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
You may have seen this floating around on the internet and haven't watched it yet. Change that. Right now. We all know things have gotten pretty unequal in America, but I didn't realize it was this bad. ...
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Posted 6 Thumbs That Explain the GOP's Problems to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Lately there have been clusters of Minnesota Republicans gathering around fancy tables, elaborate powerpoints, college lecture halls of an appropriate size, and perhaps even tiny campfires peering deep into their hearts. This might seem rather odd for a party known...
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Posted This Week on Twitter to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
It can be difficult to follow the action at the state capitol, so we're going to wade through all of the mess on #mnleg and take you through a week of action in only five tweets. Some of them...
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Posted Things You Could Buy Instead of Paying for Republican Scandal Lawyers to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Today, on a divided voice vote, Republican legislators approved more than $84,000 in legal fees related to the Michael Brodkorb lawsuit for wrongful termination in the Amy Koch scandal earlier this year. Instead of footing the first bill for this...
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Posted Blogger Threatens to Tase ABM Staff, Rep. Pat Garofalo Thinks It's Funny to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Minnesota Republicans are all a Twitter today with their state convention starting up (#mngop12 if you want to follow all of the action, and there's sure to be plenty), and it took all of about one hour for Team Extreme...
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Posted Calling All Students, New Media Fellowship Open Call! to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Below is a posting for those interested in spending a summer learning about progressive politics online, while working with team ABM in our New Media Fellowship Program. Check it out and pass it around! ABM New Media Fellowship Role: Alliance...
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Posted Rep. Cravaack In Trouble for Supporting Middle Class Crushing Budget to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Perhaps the only thing more removed than Rep. Cravaack's house in New Hampshire might be his vote for the House GOP budget last week. We all had some good laughs had yesterday, but it's time to start unpacking this...
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Posted Michele Bachmann Wants to Be From Minnesota Again to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Our long national nightmare is over, people.</sarcasm> Michele Bachmann has once again decided to seek office in Minnesota's 6th District. While we now know that Bachmann is once again in, we don't know what that district is going to look like....
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Posted Come Along, Let's Explore Tom Emmer's Minnesota to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
After just three ballots, Republicans in Minnesota have nominated the candidate that they think can carry Tim Pawlenty's failed agenda forward in Minnesota. That man: Tom Emmer. Yes, the same man who said that Democrats are not "freedom-loving Americans"....
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Posted Bachmann: Everywhere Except Where Her District Needs Her to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
I have bad news, Minnesotans. Today is going to be yet another one of those days that Michele Bachmann is the talk of every single national cable news network broadcast. Every. Single. One.While this is great for her national...
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Posted Politics or People? to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Yesterday, we sent this email out to Alliance for a Better Minnesota members in hopes that Minnesota Republicans would stand by their vote, and not pull the ultimate political flip-flop. With debate underway in the State House, things are still...
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Posted Congressional Briefing with Tim Walz at Netroots Minnesota to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
There is a lot to get excited about at Netroots Minnesota. With two days of engaging panels and workshops, there is sure to be something for every progressive looking to learn how to grow our movement in Minnesota. In addition...
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Posted Show Me the Insured Socialist Children to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Families USA released a report today that has hit the Star Tribune on the 45,000+ Minnesotans that have now lost their health insurance by losing their jobs. This is quite a scary number, and it certainly points to the...
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Posted Climate Change and Sports: Homefield Advantage No More to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
This is another episode of our Blog Action Day posts about Climate Change. I'm a huge sports fan. Huge. Like on the level that teenage girls were obsessed with the Backstreet Boys back in the day, and like the level...
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Posted Minnesota's Moose in Danger Because of Climate Change to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
We are participating in Blog Action Day 2009, this is the first of several posts on climate change issues we'll be putting up here today...enjoy. When people start talking about the early signs of climate change's impact on our planet,...
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Posted Minnesota GOP Offers Up a Stunt While Health Care is in Crisis to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
I'll hand it to the Minnesota GOP. The conservatives that run the shop over there have come up with some pretty goofy games in the past--putting an asterisk behind an elected senator's name.. HILARIOUS-- but this one is just...
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Posted Small Town Minnesota Struggling to Deal With Pawlenty's Cuts to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Via Thank LGA and Minnesota 2020 we come across an editorial in the Mankato Free Press about Tim Pawlenty and his allies' cuts to local government aid, and how they endanger communities in greater Minnesota. From the editorial: Reinstatement...
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Posted Breakfast at the Fillin' Station... Mmmm Pesto to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
The pictures are from my phone, so they're not as good as the others. For the first time in what feels like the entire summer there have been back to back days of rainy weather. Which I wouldn't mind in...
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Posted Minnesota State Students on Unallotment's Impact on Them, A Preview to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Just finished interviewing some Minnesota State-Mankato students on the impacts of Gov. Pawlenty's unallotments to the state college system at the Fillin' Station. They had some great insights into what these cuts are going to do to their tuition, and...
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Posted On the Road Again... Entering the Last Day to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
It's the start of the last day we've traveled over 1,000 miles already (I think the exact reading on the trip-o-meter is 1,170) and we still have several hundred to go today. Last evening we checked out the Tim...
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Posted Line Item Veto Cut Jobs, Investment in St. Cloud to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
During tough economic times, one of the best ways to keep people off the unemployment rolls is through some labor intensive projects that will also add some value to city infrastucture, especially when the private capital is dried up like...
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Posted Bravo Burrito in St. Cloud... Mmmmm to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Pulling in to St Cloud we asked our twitter followers for the best places to eat in the city. We received several responses, but @robinmarie suggested Bravo Burrito, and being that we hadn't ventured into the Mexican food genre...
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Posted Some Scenes From Around Wadena Yesterday to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Before we get too carried away with the stories from St. Cloud, here are some of the scenes from around Wadena yesterday: The murals all over the city, shaped into jig-saw puzzle pieces, are really quite neat. It takes a...
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Posted Moorhead Student Talks About Unallotment and Impacts on Students to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Here is the first set of clips from Carson Starkey, a junior at Moorhead State University and an Army Vet. We'll have more of this interview as we get it uploaded....
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Posted St. Cloud State Unallotments Endanger Key Cog in Economic Growth in Growing Area to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
At a speach at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, I once heard a Harvard professor talk about how it was great that Harvard had a big endowment even in the tough economic times, but for...
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Posted An Almost Halfway Round Up to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Okay we're roughly through half of this road trip... okay as I'm writing this it's slightly less than half...but we're starting to get a lot of the stuff from the first two days up to the tubes and wires now...
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Posted Morrie Lanning Looking to Cut Costs When MSU-M is Looking to Survive to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
At virtually every stop thus far on the tour people have been talking about the most vulnerable people being the targets for these cuts and how they have been cutting their local budgets for years leaving nothing left to...
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Posted Video: Education Shifts Under Pawlenty Impacting Class Sizes In Western MN to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Mark Altenburg was our first interview in Moorhead this morning. He was the DFL nominee against Morrie Lanning in the last election, so he is obviously well-informed on the issues impacting district 9A, and also has a certain political perspective....
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Posted Talking Budget Cuts at Minnesota State Moorhead... Education in Danger to Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Today is move in at MSU-Moorhead and we stopped by to greet the freshman, as well as speak with some MSUM students about how these cuts are impacting college students. First we spoke with Carson who tutors kids at...
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