Couple of interesting stories this morning on online journalists' efforts to get Minnesota House access and credentials:

Forum Communications' Don Davis notes another reporter was asked Wednesday not to take flash photos in a House committee; apparently that's been OK in the past. Davis — who received Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher's apology after state troopers hassled him about picture-taking — writes that there's an "anti-press attitude among some in the House."

On that subject, KTCA's Mary Lahammer grills House Majority Leader Tony Sertich and Minority Leader Marty Seifert here; the good stuff is about 60 percent of the way in. (Note to webmasters: please make your video embeddable.)

Sertich declares privileges won't be taken away, and will be expanded to more online journalists. And while Seifert has made hay with resolution upholding press freedom, Sertich jabbed back by telling Lahammer his GOP colleague was saying something different behind the scenes.

Davis, Seifert and Sertich all note a fear of "trackers" — non-journalist political operatives with cameras ready to catch every misstep. These folks should be easy to keep off the House floor, and shouldn't be restricted from the Capitol's public spaces. On her blog, Lahammer notes pointedly:

Majority Leader Tony Sertich ... and then Seifert expressed some similar concerns about partisan "trackers" with cameras trying to capture members doing embarrassing things.  I noted that maybe publicly elected officials, in public meetings, in public buildings just shouldn't do embarrassing things.