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Dennis Tester

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St. Paul, Minnesota
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4 years 27 weeks

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Posted on 08/28/12 at 11:47 am in response to Amendments likely to face more political and legal hurdles even if they pass

at how the people who affiliate with the party named for democracy have the least respect for that idea.

Posted on 08/27/12 at 06:56 pm in response to Supreme Court affirms legislative control of constitutional amendment process

is that the court didn't include a strongly-worded suggestion to the Secretary of State that he step down.

Posted on 08/28/12 at 08:13 am in response to How valuable is State Fair politicking?

for his 312-vote victory in the lengthy 2008 recount? No, but if he happens to run into Mark Ritchie he can thank him. But I'm sure he already has.

Posted on 08/28/12 at 01:50 pm in response to Twin Cities schools use creative financing to pay for athletic fees

I went to one of the poorer high schools in town where most of the kids lived in the McDonough housing project or worse. But we had a private benefactor who had attended our school but had grown up to be the wealthy owner of a successful boiler factory.

Every year we received new football helmets and shoes and in the winter the basketball team received new shoes. Every few years the teams received new uniforms with the old ones passed down to the JV. Our families didn't have to pay...

Posted on 08/27/12 at 01:07 pm in response to The Minnesota GOP has an internal rift

has always consisted of the three wings of conservatism ... the fiscal conservatives, the social conservatives, and the libertarians, each with an emphasis on one of the three pillars of freedom (economic, personal and political). The True Conservative is someone who embraces all three of those pillars with equal priority and importance. Over the past several decades, each of the wings of the party has taken center stage at one time or another as conditions changed in America and one of...

Posted on 08/28/12 at 07:55 am in response to The Minnesota GOP has an internal rift

Because you don't get it. Your obsession with what other people have, your resentment of your own freedom and your fear that someone won't take care of you sadly prevents you from sharing our vision of a free society.

Posted on 08/27/12 at 06:37 am in response to Minnesota is 'below average' in broadband access

Apparently the GOP's war on women is being waged by other women.

Posted on 08/28/12 at 03:02 pm in response to Minnesota is 'below average' in broadband access

were the hated Crow. We expected them to be against us all along.

Posted on 08/24/12 at 02:19 pm in response to Mitt in Minnesota: 'Big business doing fine'

Romney was referring to big business of the type that looks to the federal government for bailouts and has a warm, cozy relationship with the Obama administration, like Wall Street banks and auto manufacturers.

Obama's quote was "the private sector's doing just fine" which includes small business as well, and they're generally NOT doing just fine.

Posted on 08/24/12 at 02:10 pm in response to Minnesota's Republicans vote with Akin on abortion, but will it be a campaign issue?

Polls show the majority of the country is now pro-life, which means they have the same view as Mitt Romney.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/118399/more-americans-pro-life-than-pro-choic...