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	Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Minnesota Senate is controlled by the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) by five seats and there is one Independence Party state senator, former Republican Sheila Kiscaden (IP-Rochester) who caucuses with the DFL.
		Minnesota is the northernmost of the 48 contiguous states (Alaska reaches significantly farther north), reaching to 49° 23' 04" north latitude, due to a small piece of the state known as the Northwest Angle.
		Minnesota is known for active yet quirky politics, with populism being a long-standing force among all of the political parties that call the state home.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minnesota (3156 words)

	Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) is a political party in the US state of Minnesota.
		Other important party members include US Senator Eugene McCarthy, who ran for the Democratic Party nomination in 1968 as the anti-Vietnam War candidate, and US Senator Paul Wellstone, known during his years in the Senate (1991-2002) as that body's chief voice of populist progressivism[1].
		The nickname "DFLers" is often used in Minnesota by both members and non-members of the party as an alternative to "Democrats".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DFL (277 words)

	Farmer-Labor party on Encyclopedia.com
		Meanwhile, representatives of the Nonpartisan League in Minnesota, along with various labor unions, had entered a slate of candidates for state elections in 1918 and 1920 under the name of Farmer-Labor party.
		The party made a poor showing in the 1920 election; its main strength lay in the states of Washington, Montana, and South Dakota.
		The party's platform called for the public ownership of railroads, utilities, and natural resources; an end to private banking; and the nationalization of unused land.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FarmerL1a.asp (501 words)

	Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Minnesota Democratic Party led by Hubert H. Humphrey was able to merge the Farmer-Labor party with the Minnesota Democratic Party in 1944.
		Farmer-Labor Party was a political party of Minnesota.
		The party platform called for: protection for farmers and labor union members, government ownership of some industries and social security laws.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Minnesota_Farmer-Labor_Party (544 words)

	Democratic Party - dKosopedia
		Labor unions, which had been steadily losing membership since the 1960s, found they had also lost political clout inside the Democratic Party: Clinton enacted the NAFTA free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico over the strong objection of the unions.
		The Democratic Party itself was formed from a faction of the Democratic-Republicans, led by Andrew Jackson.
		After the war, the Democrats were a shattered party, but eventually gathered enough support to elect reform candidate Grover Cleveland to two terms in the presidency, in large part due to the success of southern Democrats in creating a "Solid South" by preventing Blacks from voting.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Democratic_Party (1089 words)

	Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor DFL Senate District 39 Homepage
		Democratic Women in Congress are committed to providing women and their families with affordable and comprehensive health care by increasing and improving women's health research and services.
		Democratic women in the House are working to make sure that Federal programs assess and monitor environmental exposures and their specific risks to women's health.
		Democratic women in Congress believe that all women should have an equal opportunity to succeed, a safe and prosperous America, a secure retirement, good-paying jobs, access to affordable, comprehensive health care and the best education for our children.
	dfl39.org (2271 words)

	Insight News
		"Minnesota is famous for its wealth of artists and writers, and for their delight in keeping the doors open between political and literary life," states acclaimed poet, author and translator Robert Bly.
		The Minnesota DFL is sponsoring this amazing call-to-action event spearheaded by a grassroots group of artists calling themselves Artists for Kerry.
		Erdrich´s statement is echoed by the other talent joining her in Minnesota Artists for Kerry.
	www.insightnews.com /community.asp?userAction=showEvent&EventId=1133 (276 words)

	Minnesota Daily
		Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party official criticized a bill on Monday that he said would hurt third parties’ chances at major party status.
		Leaders from the Minnesota Independence Party have said they want to focus on local elections.
		The Green Party has not decided whether it will run a presidential candidate but party officials have said their chances of winning 5 percent in the state are not good.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2004/03/09/8709 (558 words)

	Online NewsHour: Vote 2002 -- Minnesota Senate Race
		Update: According to numerous press accounts, the Democratic Farmers and Labor party of Minnesota is likely to announce this week plans to replace the name of late Sen. Paul Wellstone with that of former Vice President Walter Mondale.
		Spurred by a grieving family and innumerable party leaders, Walter Mondale, 74, stepped in as Minnesota's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
		Update: Sen. Paul Wellstone, the two-term Democratic senator from Minnesota, was killed Friday when a chartered plane he was aboard crashed as it attempted to land in bad weather in the northern part of the state.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/mn_senate.html (774 words)

	Minnesota's DFL Senate, County and Congressional Districts
		Serving Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Senate, County and Congressional Districts
		A Democratic Farmer Labor precinct caucus is when people who live in that precinct and generally agree with the DFL ideals meet to discuss issues, begin defining political agendas, endorse candidates for state and national offices and conduct party business.
		A presidential preference ballot will be held, allowing each person who attends to vote for their choice for Democratic presidential nominee.
	www.mndfl.org (332 words)

	love1776.com's One Nation Under GOD forum
		The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other characteristics.
		For these reasons we call for social ownership and democratic control of productive resources, for a guarantee to all of the right to participate in societal production, and to a fair share of society's product, in accordance with individual needs.
		Democrats are not calling on government to own businesses but rather to regulate them so that they treat people right.
	www.network54.com /Forum/post?forumid=207941&messageid=1026647092 (387 words)

	Farmer-Labor Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		An outgrowth of the Nonpartisan League (q.v.), the Farmer–Labor Party began nominating candidates for the Minnesota legislature in 1918.
		The Senate was made up of 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats, and one Farmer-Labor party man. Republicans of the liberal wing failed to support the president.
		Minnesota is still governed by the constitution adopted in 1857, the year before it became a state.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9033755?tocId=9033755 (818 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Minnesota Senate Race - Mondale Nominated for Senate -- Oct. 30, 2002
		Democrats were "also angered by a letter from the Minnesota Republican Party to the Democrats requesting a series of five debates between the presumed replacement, Walter Mondale and Republican candidate Norm Coleman.
		Mondale appeared before the party's central committee, which was convened in Minneapolis to ratify the overwhelmingly popular decision to replace the late Sen. Paul Wellstone's name with that of the former vice president on the Nov. 5 ballot.
		Some of the speakers implored voters to cast ballots for Democratic candidates during the event that the Minneapolis Star Tribune called "raucous and sometimes acidly partisan."
	www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/mn_10-30-02.html (432 words)

	MNHS.ORG Library History Topics Farmer-Labor Movement
		In 1943, the Farmer-Labor Party merged with the Democratic Party to form the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota.
		Historical Development of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party in Minnesota, by L.C. Nesvig.
		Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy, by Richard M. Valelly.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/100farmer.html (934 words)

	Battlegrounders on National Review Online
		The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is fighting the lawsuit as though victory hinges on noncompliance with the law.
		In Minnesota the state Republican party has brought suit to enforce the state law requiring partisan balance among the election judges at polling places.
		Call them crazy, but to state Republican party officials, the DFL response is a dead giveaway that the DFL has formulated a strategic plan to mess with the election.
	www.nationalreview.com /battleground/2004/battleground200410201853.asp (203 words)

	University Wire: Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor leaders endorse Dean@ HighBeam Research
		(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS-- Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party leaders met at the State Capitol on Thursday to personally endorse former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to be the Democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential race.
		University Wire: Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor leaders endorse Dean@ HighBeam Research
		Dean supporters, including Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and state DFL leaders, gathered behind a podium with "The doctor is in" written across the front -- a reference to Dean's days as a practicing physician.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:85381189&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (177 words)

	Minnesota Democrats Exposed: MORE MONEY FROM ENTENZA RAISES MORE QUESTIONS
		Minnesota Democrats Exposed is not created, endorsed, sponsored, or authorized by any political party, candidate, or candidate's committee.
		State Republican Party Chairman Ron Eibensteiner questioned the propriety of the latest donations, and he said the party is planning to file state and federal complaints accusing Entenza of violating campaign finance laws through his $300,000 in donations this year to the national campaign committee called the 21st Century Democrats.
		Eibensteiner, who himself contributed $125,000 to the state Republican Party in 2000, said he thought there was something vaguely improper about Entenza contributing money to help elect DFL lawmakers whom he will lead in the upcoming legislative session.
	www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com /2004/12/more-money-from-entenza-raises-more.html (1116 words)

	Hubert H. Humphrey
		He helped wrest control of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor party from Communist influences and was a cofounder (1947) of the Americans for Democratic Action, a national liberal, anti-Communist organization.
		He then helped unite the Minnesota Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties, and after their merger in 1944 he became a state party leader.
		A delegate to the 1948 Democratic national convention, Humphrey was instrumental, through his evangelical oratory, in having the convention override the platform committee and include President Truman’s civil rights proposals in the platform.
	www.course-notes.org /biographies/huberthoratiohumphreyjr.htm (700 words)

	MNHS.ORG Library History Topics Walter F. Mondale
		Walter Mondale was a liberal Democrat, active in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
		In 1984 Mondale, as the Democratic presidential nominee, became the first major-party candidate to choose a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, as a running mate.
		MHS call number: See the green Manuscripts Alpha Notebooks — filed alphabetically under Mondale, Joan — for a detailed list of boxes and locator numbers (there are 50 boxes of material, but not all relate to the topic), or use an electronic version of the inventory.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/library/tips/history_topics/50mondale.html (989 words)

	Looks like Fritz may be back
		Bill Walsh, deputy executive director of the Minnesota Republican Party, said Mondale should expect a battle if he becomes the Democratic nominee.
		Democratic sources said the feeling was that Mondale, if he was not going to run, would have advised Democratic leaders by now so they could find someone else.
		Democratic aides said Daschle was among those who urged Mondale to run in the Nov. 5 congressional election.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=10&num=881&printer=1 (850 words)

	WENDELL R. ANDERSON: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
		Anderson was elected governor of Minnesota in 1970, focusing his campaign on the need to reduce the burden of high property taxes, and to provide local communities--primarily schools--with major nonproperty revenues from the state.
		He was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1962 and 1966, and was selected as one of two outstanding Minnesota legislators by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
		He chaired the Democratic Governor's Conference (1974-1975) and was a member of the Democratic National Committee during the same period.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00476.html (1123 words)

	Minnesota Independence Party
		The Independence Party of Minnesota is the third largest party in Minnesota, behind the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) (Affiilated with the national Democratic Party) and Republican Party.
		However, it is the political party of Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura (1999-2003), and has endorsed candidate and former Representative Tim Penny[?] for the 2002 gubernatorial election.
		The suite and the baggage were just as related in the story--the only really of the party, but I have made him Scotch instead of Irish, and I.
	www.city-search.org /mi/minnesota-independence-party.html (386 words)

	TimePieces: Democrat & Farmer-Labor
		The Democratic Farmer-Labor Party is formed and nominates its first slate of candidates for state elections.
		Hubert Humphrey is a driving force behind the merger of Democrats and Farmer-Laborites, but he turns down the new party's nomination for governor.
		Visit the Minnesota Historical Society's Library for interviews from the Twentieth-Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project.
	events.mnhs.org /timepieces/EventDetail.cfm?EventID=133 (206 words)

	Progressive, The: A Minnesota Populist Tries to Crash the Millionaires' Club - Jerry Janezich
		He's won support from feminist and gay groups within the Democratic-Farmer Labor Party, and he has secured the backing of more than sixty fellow legislators and four of Minnesota's Democratic members of the U.S. House.
		That may not sound like typical rhetoric in Al Gore's Democratic Party, but Janezich has already secured the endorsement of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer Labor Party, along with the Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state's Teamsters, the United Auto Workers, and the Steelworkers.
		Founded when Democrats merged with the leftwing populists of the old Farmer-Labor party in the 1940s, the Democratic-Farmer Labor Party's core membership is perhaps the most progressive of any state Democratic party in the nation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_9_64/ai_65014761 (1155 words)

	Keyword
		As a Democratic activist, she fought for and with the party and served as a 12-year Democratic National Committee member and five-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
		WASHINGTON — Minnesota Democrats are feisty and fired up as they head to their party's 2004 convention, but there's no disguising what a bleak four years this has been for them.
		The Minnesota Republican Party on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to force local election officials across the state to identify the party affiliation of their election judges.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=dfl (5073 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Methodist Politicians in Minnesota
		U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1937-40; defeated (Farmer-Labor), 1930; died in office 1940.
		justice of Minnesota state supreme court, 1934; municipal judge in Minnesota, 1936-43; district judge in Minnesota, 1944.
		The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/MN/methodist.html (621 words)

	USNews.com: Ambitious crusader, Minnesota.s Sen. Norm Coleman (1/31/05)
		"He's the best self-promoter we've ever had to deal with in our state," says Michael Erlandson, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, or DFL, as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota.
		So even though he got credit for revitalizing St. Paul's downtown, bringing a National Hockey League franchise back to Minnesota, and improving the city's credit rating, he was on the outs with his party.
		He failed to get the DFL endorsement in 1989, but in 1993 he challenged the party's choice in the primary and won, and was elected mayor in November.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/050131/31coleman_2.htm (543 words)

	Carver County Democratic Farmer Labor Party
		The Carver County DFL Officially known as Senate District 34 DFL, is a group of local liberals, laborers and farmers who believe that the best government is democratic government.
		Families and individuals can contribute to the Carver County DFL $50 and $100 respectively and receive a full refund from the state of Minnesota.
		Every election cycle is an up hill battle for us but with continued perseverance and hard work we do elect democrats.
	www.carvercodfl.org /about.htm (136 words)

	Chap8.html
		Minnesota’s 2004 Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party presidential electors met on December 13, 2004, in the governor’s reception room at the State Capitol in Saint Paul.
		The vote for Edwards was historically noteworthy: This was Minnesota’s first “faithless” elector, as those who defect from their pledged candidates are known.
		Nine of Minnesota’s electors voted for John F. Kerry for president; one elector voted anonymously for John Edwards.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/sos/2005BlueBook/Chap8.html (196 words)

	Alumni
		When Humphrey joyously announced the formation of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party, she became a dedicated DFL organizer in St. Paul, becoming Ramsey County chairwoman and also serving at the state level.
		Judge Harriet Lansing ’67 of the Minnesota Court of Appeals wrote of her friend, “Courageous in her pioneering efforts, scholarly in her legal and judicial endeavors, and deeply thoughtful in her humanitarian approach to all things, Phyllis represents the ful.llment of the highest aspirations of Macalester’s philosophy of inspired public leadership and sustained personal grace.”
		Nevertheless, she graduated and became Ramsey County’s assistant county attorney, working in juvenile and criminal courts, and becoming the.rst woman fulltime prosecutor in Minnesota.
	www.macalester.edu /alumni/alumni_board/2004winners/phyllis_bambusch.html (270 words)

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