Curtis GilbertCorporations, law firms and other interest groups are bankrolling today’s inaugural celebration for St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. In all, they contributed nearly $25,000 to the mayor’s inauguration fund. While businesses aren’t allowed to give money to candidates’ campaigns in Minnesota, there’s nothing stopping them from supporting inaugurals. Such funds aren’t subject to contribution limits Read more →
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Minneapolis mayoral candidate Mark Andrew and a political action committee backing him have together raised $200,000 more than any other campaign. Coalition for a Better Minneapolis, an independent PAC running T.V. ads and sending mail promoting Andrew’s candidacy, reported raising $136,500 in campaign finance documents filed today. In a campaign document released Monday, Andrews reported Read more →
Deep-pocketed supporters of Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jackie Cherryhomes have a new place to send their checks. A political action committee calling itself Minneapolis Forward filed papers yesterday with Hennepin County. “This is a very competitive race and it does take money to get Jackie’s message out to voters,” committee chair Jim Bernstein wrote in response Read more →
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman can thank the Twin Cities legal community for a good chunk of the six-figure fundraising haul he announced this week. Read more →
DFLer Don Samuels’ campaign for mayor of Minneapolis is drawing support from an unlikely group of donors: Republicans. Samuels has received contributions from two former state Republican Party chairmen, a former Republican governor, a former federal prosecutor who served in the George W. Bush administration and Bush’s 2004 Minnesota campaign manager. “The reason that Don Read more →
Former Minneapolis City Council Member Dan Cohen, who last served in elected office in the 1960s, leads the mayoral money race in Minneapolis, having lent his campaign a whopping $285,000. Cohen is the only candidate funding his campaign almost entirely out of his own pocket. Cohen also has the most cash on hand of any Read more →