The Daily Digest
The DNC has selected Minneapolis as a finalist for the Democratic National Convention in 2012.
Minnesota students make modest gains on the MCA-IIs.
Gov. Pawlenty amended his disaster aid request to include several more counties.
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The DFL and I-P candidates for governor will appear at a TPT hosted debate this evening. The debate will be recorded and run on Friday (during the Almanac hour).
All of the candidates will also participate in the FarmFest debate.
Republican Tom Emmer is now leaving the door open to rail projects. He consistently voted against them during his six years as a legislator.
Emmer also says he intends to take the public subsidy in the governor's race.
You can listen to Emmer's speech in Rochester (along with the other GOP statewide candidates) here.
Democrat Matt Entenza released a new ad.
Entenza and Dayton committed $1.4 million in TV ads in the Twin Cities.
Entenza's campaign HQ is broken into again.
KSTP fact checks Democrat Mark Dayton's latest TV ads.
Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher's campaign says LGA hikes will lower property taxes.
If you haven't noticed, Labor's house is divided in the DFL primary.
Poligraph says Democrat Tarryl Clark is right on foreclosures but is wrong on unemployment. Clark is challenging GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota 6th District.
The Pi Press examines the data practices requests being filed with the state's constitutional officers. State Auditor Rebecca Otto, a Democrat, says Republicans are on a deep sea fishing expedition by filing a slate of data practices requests. The MNGOP and other conservative groups also filed similar requests with the Secretary of State's office.
Voices PAC endorsed eight for the Legislature.
Indiana's Supreme Court upheld a voter id law.
Congress
The Pentagon recommends a living soldier for the Medal of Honor for the first time since the Vietnam War.
The Senate confirmed Gen. Petraeus to head the Afghan war.
The House passed the bank reform bill.
President Obama also criticizes the GOP over the Wall St. bill.
The Senate GOP kills the jobless aid extension for the third time in three weeks.
DFL Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken get their turns to question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.
Franken challenged Kagan on the NBC/Comcast merger.
Kagan's testimony has ended and it's all but sure that she will be confirmed.
Franken is headed to Vietnam and Laos next week.
The Education Department is pushing back on efforts to cut Race to the Top Funding and pay for performance funding in order to help save education jobs. Kline is criticizing the move by Democrats in Congress.
GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen is named to a working group on U.S. /Korea free trade.
He also dropped an "easy out" in the congressional softball game.
GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann warns that the U.S. is too involved in the global economy.
Bachmann is one of several Republicans calling for Democrats in Congress to allow Skype to be used in Congressional offices.
DFL Rep. Keith Ellison is headed to Africa next week (h/t Blois Olson).
The House Ag Committee, chaired by DFL Rep. Collin Peterson, voted to lift the travel ban on Cuba.
Pawlenty for Prez Watch
Pawlenty was in South Carolina and announced he's backing the entire GOP slate. He also has a private fundraiser for his PAC and met with consultants. CNN, Fox and Politico have stories.
The Fix points out that Pawlenty is a little late to the endorsement game in South Carolina but he and Mitt Romney are leading the way for chit collecting in 2012.