New DFL-aligned groups prep for 2012 elections
Jeff Blodgett, who stepped down as executive director of Wellstone Action last January, is the chair of a new independent expenditure organization, 2012 Fund.
View Article$1.3 million in the bank for DFL-aligned independent expenditure groups
Carrie Lucking, executive director, Alliance for a Better Minnesota The three DFL-aligned organizations that played a pivotal role in helping Mark Dayton win the 2010 gubernatorial contest are poised...
View ArticleDFL third-party and anti-amendment groups still winning the fundraising wars
A trio of DFL third-party groups -- comprised of Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Win Minnesota and the 2012 Fund -- are still significantly out-raising a slew of independent expenditures groups on the...
View ArticleDemocratic caucuses: exultant about cash haul, wary of conservative indy...
Despite their minority status in both the state House and Senate, the DFL caucuses significantly outperformed Republicans in fundraising from the beginning of January until the end of July.
View ArticleDFL aligned PACs sitting on $1m-plus for campaign stretch
A trio of closely aligned Democratic independent political spending groups in Minnesota are sitting on just more than $1 million ahead of the November general election.
View ArticlePro-GOP business groups proliferate — but keep mum about big-picture...
No fewer than half a dozen major players have emerged among the ranks of pro-Republican business PACs in this election cycle. But while their 42-day pre-general election campaign finance reports are...
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