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A leading candidate for Minnesota governor tried Friday to contain fallout after she and the state Democratic Party admitted their arrangement for supplying her with a voter database likely violated campaign finance laws.

It took the coldest week of this season so far for sparks to fly on the Democratic gubernatorial campaign trail.

There's nothing unexpected about the fact that Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak is making a bid for Tim Pawlenty's job a ' he's been hinting at it, or stating it outright, for a while, and shortly after he was re-elected mayor, he filed to run as governor .

Amid the packed field of candidates, some are starting to draw money and support.

Last update: December 4, 2009 - 3:54 PM Two Republican U.S. Senators -- Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma, and David Vitter, of Louisiana -- Friday offered an amendment to force members of Congress to get their health care through the so-called public option, should the option pass in the health care overhaul.

After the 11 Democratic candidates for Minnesota governor marched onto the stage for a forum at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Tuesday night, Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner said she wasn't sure if she was watching "Gubernatorial Idol" or "The Usual Suspects." For the most part, they were the usual Democratic suspects, all calling for ...

Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher apparently has received another union's backing in her bid for the DFL endorsement for governor, says MPR's Polinaut .

A smaller government employees union is splitting from its larger cousin to back Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher for governor.

The former senator has said he'll decide next year whether to run for governor. By RACHEL E. STASSEN-BERGER , Star Tribune Last update: November 17, 2009 - 10:28 PM Minnesota Republicans still like former U.S. Sen.

Producing videos of your crimes, including your own faces ... and then posting them to YouTube ... comes real close to a "World's Dumbest Criminals" bit, except the cops haven't caught all of our local yobs ... yet.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 50 percent of Republican voters in the state prefer Coleman over the three other potential GOP candidates for the party's 2010 gubernatorial nominee.

There certainly is not a ton of 2010 polling today, but there is an interesting variety of polling data, at least.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday found Norm Coleman with 50 percent support among likely Republican voters in the 2010 Minnesota governor's race.

Minnesota's second largest state employee union is lending its backing to Democratic candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the 2010 governor's race.

Eds: APNewsNow; UPDATES with Kelliher endorsement. ST. PAUL, Minn. Minnesota 's second largest state employee union is lending its backing to Democratic candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the 2010 governor's race.

The governor wants to amend the Constitution to take guesswork out of budgeting, but he met skepticism from DFLers.

The GOP straw poll for governor a few weeks ago gave the Republicans a front runner.

Labor unions, whose endorsements often play a key role in state DFL politics by providing money and volunteers to the candidates they bless, are all over the map on the 2010 governor's race, says the Assciated Press' Brian Bakst.

One of Minnesota's largest employee unions endorsed former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton's 2010 bid for governor late Saturday.

Here is the latest Minnesota news from The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota's dominant union for state workers is endorsing former Sen.