The Daily Digest
Today is the last day for candidates to file.
Tom Horner, the Independence Party's endorsed candidate for governor, will announce his running mate this morning.
Rob Hahn, who is challenging Horner in the August primary, announced on Sunday that Thomas Harens is his running mate.
MPR says most Lieutenant Governor candidates have little influence with voters.
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Watch to see if a Democrat files in Senate District 50. Some Democrats aren't happy with DFL Sen. Satveer Chaudhary's actions at the end of session aka The Fish Foul Up.
MPR says changes to Minnesota's education law are becoming a key issue in this year's election for governor. And the state's teachers union is in the crosshairs.
Democrat Matt Entenza has a virtual townhall on education tonight.
The GOP is upbeat about its prospects in governor's races across the country.
Under the Dome
Minnesota's hospitals and the poor enrolled in General Assistance Medical Care brace for changes to GAMC.
Gov. Pawlenty finished taking action on the 2010 bills that were sent to him. He wrapped up his eight years in office with 96 vetoes.
Congress
Israel's raid on a flotilla bringing aid to Gaza has prompted a diplomatic crisis in the region.
BP's effort to plug the oil leak failed prompting concern that it could take two months to fix.
Minnesota's Congressional delegation is expressing concern over the jailing of a William Mitchell College of Law professor in Rwanda.
DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar wants to make sure taxpayers don't pay for the oil spill.
Pawlenty for Prez Watch
Gov. Pawlenty spoke at a Memorial Day event at Fort Snelling (along with Klobuchar).
Pawlenty also appeared on a local recording of NBC's Meet the Press last week. He ripped President Obama's response to the oil spill. He also said he would have let AIG fail. The bailout of the largest insurance company was seen as one of the efforts that stopped the dramatic freefall of the markets in 2008.
Public Policy Polling didn't survey Pawlenty in 2012 hypotheticals Iowa, Michigan and South Carolina. The poll shows it's an open race.