Governor

ST. PAUL - Minnesota Republicans stopped a straw poll for governor half-way through the annual Farmfest event. "A straw poll was started but stopped because the state chair had not authorized it," state Republican spokesman Mark Drake said. "We didn't want to take attention away...

ST. PAUL - Next year's Minnesota Legislature should be interesting, given that many key lawmakers want to make the jump to governor - or at least are considering it. Rep. Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, opted to leave his job as minority leader even if he just "kicks the tires" for a...

ST. PAUL -- A column penned by the assistant Minnesota Senate majority leader may signal how Democrats will react to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's unilateral cutting of state budgets. Sen. Tarryl Clark, DFL-St. Cloud, wrote that the Republican governor is improperly using his unallotment powers,...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty left Democrats sputtering when he vowed to balance the state budget on his own, without the Minnesota Legislature. It was a move that changed the contours of the session's final days. Democrats may have miscalculated by sending Pawlenty a full slate of budget bills...

Governor Tim Pawlenty appointed Rosemount resident Carl Peterson to the Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Geoscience and Interior Design today according to a press release from the governor's office. Along with Peterson, Mary E. Deeg, David Fisher, James N. Grube,...

ST. PAUL - Minnesota's 2010 race for governor continues to attract candidates. The latest is state Sen. John Marty, DFL-Roseville, who barely got a third of the votes in 1994 when he lost to Republican Arne Carlson, who won his second term as governor. Marty is best known for...

ST. PAUL -- News of a $5.3 billion state budget deficit could hit nearly every Minnesotan with program cuts or increased costs. Or it could be an opportunity to shrink state government. Or, more likely, it could be a combination of the two. It will be months before Minnesotans...

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ST. PAUL - State Sen. Tom Bakk has become the second Democrat to file paperwork establishing a governor campaign committee for the 2010 election. However, he said in a Wednesday interview, the committee is only to allow him to investigate a candidacy.

BREEZY POINT, Minn. - Gov. Tim Pawlenty caught a 17-inch walleye on Pelican Lake Saturday as part of the 60th annual Governor's Fishing Opener, but that's not what he'll eat. "I guess I'm eating humble pie," the Republican governor said early Saturday afternoon after returning to...