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	Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The nickname "DFLers" is often used in Minnesota by both members and non-members of the party as an alternative to "Democrats".
		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 party's headquarters are in St Paul, Minnesota.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minnesota_Democratic-Farmer-Labor_Party (277 words)

	Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The Minnesota Democratic Party led by Hubert H. Humphrey was able to merge the Farmer-Labor party with the Minnesota Democratic Party in 1944.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Minnesota_Farmer-Labor_Party (544 words)

	Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, 520 U.S. 351 (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Party retains great latitude in its ability to communicate ideas to voters and candidates through its participation in the campaign, and Party members may campaign for, endorse, and vote for their preferred candidate even if he is listed on the ballot as another party's candidate.
		Minnesota's fusion ban is not nearly so restrictive; the challenged provisions say nothing about the previous party affiliation of would be candidates but only require that, in order to appear on the ballot, a candidate not be the nominee of more than one party.
		Because the New Party is a "minor party" under Minnesota law, it does not hold a primary election but must instead file a nominating petition with the signatures of 500 eligible voters, or 10 percent of the total number of voters in the preceding state or county general election, whichever is less.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/95-1608.ZO.html (5015 words)

	Response to an Inquiry by Minnesota Farmer Labor Party Activist - V.R. DUNNE / A Rebel in Thought - Autobiography of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A labor party, or a farmer-labor party, in order to escape the fate of absorption or control by the bosses' parties, must be controlled by the organizations of workers, that is, by the trade unions.
		The Minnesota trade unions from the world war period to the present time have gone through a completely different course of development in the political arena than their sister unions in almost all other sections of the country.
		The shattering of the Farmer-Labor Party in November 1938 (it was not merely an electoral defeat) was the inevitable culmination of a course shaped by politicians, compromisers of all sorts, and outright charlatans.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/V-R-Dunne-Colvin1944.htm (1231 words)

	James Burnham: The Labor Party - 1938 (1938) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The only independent party organization of this new period is the American Labor Party, though it is interesting to notice that the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party has been undergoing an evolution bringing it closer in political content and social composition to the American Labor Party.
		In this country the reformist labor political movement will in a very short time find that its chief rivals are not the old bourgeois parties in their old form, but on the one side the fascist, on the other the revolutionary, movements.
		Where the labor party or Labors’ Non-Partisan League is up for consideration in the trade unions, the job of the revolutionists will be to press for a provision against all support of old party candidates as a condition for adherence, and to continue such pressure if the union joins without such a condition.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/burnham/1938/03/labor.htm (2457 words)

	Farmer-Labor party on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The party made a poor showing in the 1920 election; its main strength lay in the states of Washington, Montana, and South Dakota.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f/farmerl1a.asp (501 words)

	MPR: What's the Future of the DFL Party?
		The state chair of the Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party is calling for a major party overhaul in the wake of November election losses.
		Party Chair Dick Senese says the DFL has alienated Minnesotans through its cumbersome caucus system, which requires people who want to be delegates to the state convention to attend three or four caucus meetings.
		Last year, the party was embroiled in a divisive five-way gubernatorial primary, which left Democrats with only two months to rally behind Skip Humphrey against Norm Coleman and Jesse Ventura.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/199901/14_mccalluml_dfl (804 words)

	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| Farmer-Labor Movement
		The Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota is an unlikely coalition of two seemingly disparate groups, rural and urban, that found common cause and united in pursuit of their goals.
		Third parties in American politics are not noted for their longevity, but this group proved an exception to the rule.
		In 1943, the Farmer-Labor Party merged with the Democratic Party to form the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/100farmer.html (934 words)

	University Wire: Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor leaders endorse Dean@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(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.
		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.
		In order to get the full official DFL party endorsement, Dean must secure at least 71 percent of the vote...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:85381189&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (177 words)

	Farmer-Labor Party
		The Farmer-Labor Party was formed in 1920 by John Fitzpatrick, leader of the Federation of Labor in Chicago.
		Olson was expected to be the party's presidential candidate in 1936 but unfortunately was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died later that year.
		After his death the party began to disintegrate and in 1944 the organization was absorbed into the Democratic Party.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAfarmerlabor.htm (309 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Farmer-Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Farmer-Labor Party, political party in the United States, established to represent the interests of workers and farmers.
		Populism, United States agrarian movement of the late 19th century that developed mainly in the area from Texas to the Dakotas and grew into a...
		Labor Party (Israel): pictures related to the Labor Party
	encarta.msn.com /Farmer-Labor_Party.html (191 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.
		A Senate committee approved a bill Friday that would require parties to secure 5 percent of the vote for their candidates in a statewide election in November in order to keep their status as a major party.
		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 (540 words)

	FARMER-LABOR PARTY (1918-1924) history of the various F-L Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The convention call was issued to trade untions, state Farmer-Labor Parties, the Non-Partisan League, the Socialist Party, and the Workers Party, The FLP was frustrated with the timidity of the CPPA and the refusal of that organization to enter into independent electoral politics and sought to establish a national organization through other means.
		In the middle of June 1923, a subcommittee of the CEC of the Workers Party of America met with a sub-committee of the Farmer-Labor Party.
		A Convention of the loyal members of the Farmer-Labor Party was called for that same time and place, where it aimed to cooperate with the CPPA in the formation of a labor party.
	www.marxists.org /subject/usa/eam/farmerlaborparty.html (1575 words)

	Farmer-Labor Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in U.S. history (1918–44), a minor political party of Minnesotan small farmers and urban workers, which supported Robert M. La Follette in the 1924 presidential election and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936.
		An outgrowth of the Nonpartisan League (q.v.), the Farmer–Labor Party began nominating candidates for the Minnesota legislature in 1918.
		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)

	Floyd B. Olson Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This site is devoted to the political career and thought of Floyd B. Olson, former governor of the great state of Minnesota, and of his political party, the Minnesota Farmer Labor Association.
		Olson was governor of Minnesota and the head of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Association from 1931-1936.
		Farmer Labor was the most successful third party in the history of 20th century United States politics and the voice of populism in an era of tory conservatives and wishy-washy Democrats (sound familiar?).
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/8713 (224 words)

	MNHS.ORG : Governors of Minnesota \| Orville L. (Lothrop) Freeman
		Freeman earned his LL.B. degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1946, was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1947, and was a member of the Larson, Loevinger, Lindquist and Freeman law firm from 1947 to 1955.
		He was secretary (1946-1948) and chairman (1948-1950) of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), and was an unsuccessful candidate for Minnesota attorney general (1950) and governor of Minnesota (1952).
		Michael Freeman served as a Minnesota state senator and as the Hennepin County attorney, and in 1998 he was a candidate for governor of Minnesota.
	www.state.mn.us /ebranch/mhs/people/governors/gov/gov_31.htm (357 words)

	Pharyngula: Minnesota wins! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It dates from the Progressive era, when farmers, labor and Democrats had a lot in common.
		It stands for “Democratic, Farmer, Labor.” The Minnesota Farmer-Labor party was independent of the national one, which only lasted from 1920 to 1944.
		Minnesota’s gain may well end up some other poor state’s loss.
	pharyngula.org /comments/688_0_1_0_C (972 words)

	Story Page
		Opposing Ruthenberg and Pepper was the largest faction, led by William Z. Foster, head of the party's labor arm (the Trade Union Educational League), and James Cannon, the party's chairman.
		This state party had displaced the Democratic Party in Minnesota as the chief rival to the Republicans in 1918; in 1922 the Farmer-Labor Party had supplied both U.S. senators and two members of the House of Representatives.
		William Mahoney, head of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federation, the organizing body of the Farmer-Labor Party, enthusiastically backed La Follette but tried to nudge the campaign to the left by making him the candidate of a national farmer-labor party rather than of the more centrist CPPA.
	www.johnearlhaynes.org /page33.html (504 words)

	Battlegrounders on National Review Online
		In Minnesota the state Republican party has brought suit to enforce the state law requiring partisan balance among the election judges at polling places.
		The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is fighting the lawsuit as though victory hinges on noncompliance with the law.
		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)

	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.
		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.
		Update: Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone's name will be replaced on the Nov. 5 ballot according to state officials and Democratic party leaders.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/mn_senate.html (774 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Methodist Politicians in Minnesota
		justice of Minnesota state supreme court, 1934; municipal judge in Minnesota, 1936-43; district judge in Minnesota, 1944.
		U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1937-40; defeated (Farmer-Labor), 1930; died in office 1940.
		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)

	Looks like Fritz may be back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With control of the Senate at stake, former Vice President Walter Mondale is expected to answer Democratic pleas and run to replace Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, killed in a small plane crash last week, party sources said on Sunday.
		Mondale, the Wellstone family's top choice to succeed the 58-year-old lawmaker, has told party leaders he will announce a decision after a memorial service on Tuesday in Minneapolis for the two-term senator, the party sources said.
		Mike Erlandson, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said the party's central committee would meet on Wednesday to decide on a new candidate to replace Wellstone.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=10&num=881&printer=1 (850 words)

	Minnesota League of ~Conservation Voters -- Other Useful Resources
		Minnesota Green Party This site includes the Green Party of Minnesota's candidates, locals, platform, and newsletters.
		Minnesota Secretary of State - Elections and Voting This is the SOS's site for elections, including polling place finders and registering for vote.
		Minnesota Environmental Partnership MEP is a network of over 70 non-profit environmental and conservation groups working together to protect, restore and enjoy Minnesota's precious natural resources.
	www.mnlcv.org /index.asp?Type=B_LIST&SEC={C3E077E3-8729-4986-82F2-208A9F3BA8E3} (289 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Minnesota Senate Race - Mondale Nominated for Senate -- Oct. 30, 2002
		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.
		The party's action was largely a formality because Mondale had already accepted requests by party leaders and members of the Wellstone family that he face Republican Norm Coleman on Election Day.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/mn_10-30-02.html (432 words)

	Minnesota Independence Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	State Politics & Policy \| Minnesota DFL Party Members Launch Group Aimed at Promoting Antiabortion Views, Candidates in ...
		Some members of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party who oppose abortion rights on Friday announced the formation of a new organization -- to be known as Democrats for Life of Minnesota -- that will promote antiabortion views and candidates who oppose abortion rights within the state party, the Minneapolis
		Janet Robert -- who founded the group, an "offshoot" of the national group Democrats for Life of America -- said that the state's DFL Party has been adversely affected by an "extreme position on abortion rights," adding that DFLM will seek to "eliminate support of abortion rights as a litmus test for statewide office," the
		Two of Minnesota's five DFL members of Congress oppose abortion rights, and between 22 and 27 of the 88 DFL state lawmakers oppose abortion rights, according to state Sen. Dean Johnson (DFL) (Salisbury,
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=19521 (179 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the 1920s and 1930s, American political organizations strong enough to mount state-wide campaigns, and often capable of electing governors and members of Congress, emerged not only in Minnesota but in Wisconsin and Washington, in Oklahoma and Idaho, and in several other states.
		Richard M. Valelly treats in detail the political economy of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party (1918-1944), the most successful radical, state-level party in American history.
		With the aid of numerous interviews of surviving organizers and participants in the party's existence, Valelly recreates the party's rise to power and subsequent decline, seeking answers to some broad, developmental questions.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226845354 (490 words)

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