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		<title>New political blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After four years, the Star Tribune political team has left The Big Question for a new blog: Hot Dish Politics. Please join us there and subscribe to the RSS and Twitter feeds for the latest in Minnesota politics.]]></description>
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		<title>Would-be governor (maybe) rips governor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to thoroughly ripping former Viking Randy Moss during an MSNBC interview this week, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak took some well-aimed shots at Gov. Tim Pawlenty&#8217;s presumed presidential ambitions. Rybak, widely considered a candidate for governor next year, ridiculed Pawlenty on the Ed Schultz talk show Monday, saying, among other things, that Pawlenty is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coleman&#8217;s Bachmann pitch: Minnesotans denied a &#8216;fair vote&#8217; last November</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats are positively a titter at a new fundraising appeal for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann signed by deposed Senator Norm Coleman, a potential GOP gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota.Â  Nearing the end of the third-quarter reporting period for raising campaign cash, Bachmann and others are pulling out all stops to post good numbers, impress potential donors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oops&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as they run for re-election this year, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman are widely considered to be likely DFL candidates for governor in 2010. And even though neither one has actually declared his candidacy, the DFL today did just that &#8212; sort of. Its announcement for its annual Founders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact check: Bachmann&#8217;s office and improper franking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been some buzz lately surrounding a newsletter sent using taxpayer money by Rep. Michele Bachmann to an address in Colorado. Under House franking rules, members of Congress may not use taxpayer money to send a mass communication outside of their district &#8211; which is exactly what happened here. The Star Tribune reached out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franken&#8217;s second bill targets product labelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Al Franken introduced legislation today which would require cleaning products to display a label with all of their ingredients. Franken&#8217;s second bill, the Household Product Labeling Act, expands on an existing law which requires household cleaning products to list hazardous ingredients but not necessarily ingredients that can be harmful after long periods of exposure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Michele Bachmann&#8221; makes it to SNL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob von Sternberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Michele Bachmann (actually, a reasonable satiric facsimile) made an appearance on Saturday Night Live&#8217;s Thursday in a sketch that lampooned Republicans&#8217; response to President Obama&#8217;s health care address last week. Her moment in the sun comes a little over a minute into the clip.]]></description>
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		<title>Bachmann speaks to conservative conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Michele Bachmann reiterated many of her health care views to a conservative conference here in Washington this morning, calling for less state barriers for purchasing health insurance. Bachmann spoke to a packed room of conservative supporters during a health care &#8220;town hall&#8221; at the Values Voter Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council. Several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bachmann elated at House vote on ACORN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House voted today to cut all federal funding from ACORN, a cause Rep. Michele Bachmann has been championing for several months. She introduced a bill in June to block federal housing dollars from going to groups indicted for voter fraud, and battled with Rep. Barney Frank this spring over an amendment to do the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kline stumps against another public option</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the House prepares to vote on a bill that would largely do away with private lending in higher education, Rep. John Kline railed yesterday against the expansion of a &#8220;public option&#8221; in the student loan industry. This all sounds very familiar. &#8220;We&#8217;re not talking about health care today, but perhaps we should be,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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