The Daily Digest
The Daily Digest...
The Star Tribune story on the rift between Attorney General Mike Hatch and the DFLer who wants to replace him leads the news. Apparently Matt Entenza, a state representative who's running for Hatch's job, paid a private investigator to check into Hatch's office. Hatch is the DFL endorsed candidate for governor. Entenza has the DFL endorsement for AG. Who knows where this will lead. Props to Brodkorb with Minnesota Democrats Exposed for breaking this a while ago...
The Associated Press has a story on the Senate voting in favor of allowing the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada. President Bush and the U.S. House have rejected the idea. Governor Pawlenty was quick to praise the vote in a news release. He's been on the reimportation bandwagon for a while.
MNPublius is reporting by linking to a variety of Democratic sites that New Orleans dropped its bid to host the DNC Convention in 2008. That means the Twins Cities is still in this game of musical chairs.
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A columnist in the Wall Street Journal says some folks who work for the IRS have been caught illegally examining confidential taxpayer data. GOP Congressman Jim Ramstad is mentioned (subscription required).
Finally, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports on how some high profile Republicans and Democrats are trying to bridge the partisan divide with a new website.
"A group of political strategists who have spent years firing heavy artillery at each other came together at the Hay-Adams Hotel yesterday, put aside their weapons, decried the polarized state of debate in America and vowed a new approach to peaceful coexistence.
Toward that end, they are launching a Web site that they hope will eventually reach 30 million opinion leaders, elevate public discussion on matters from politics to sports to culture and, in the process, make them some money."