Legislature

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Men are elected to office, not parties.” Willmar Tribune editorial, April 9, 1913 One would not know it with the partisan bickering that can break…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I’ll hold the ball, Charlie Brown, and you come running up and kick it.” Lucy Van Pelt* Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown,…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Raise less corn and more hell.” Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890* Mary Elizabeth Lease was one of the most passionate voices of the prairie populist movement…

Special mid-week Capitol Update from lobbyist John Tuma: “We live in a political world. Where wisdom is thrown into jail.” Bob Dylan (aka Robert Zimmerman from Hibbing, MN) Oh Mercy, 2003 The…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “He came here the other day and talked with me about the rascality of this Indian business until I felt it down to my boots.…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “It is extremely desirable to remove as speedily as possible so vexing a question from our State politics, not allowing it to remain for years…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I’m tired of sewing you up.” Eddie Froelich Those were the words of the trainer for the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team while stitching up hockey…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “The best brain and the surest brawn of the nation is found here (in the Midwest) and it should be organized into one mighty moral,…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Why cannot we, however, have a real wild park…” Alfred J. Hill St. Paul Dispatch, 1890* In the late 1800s, Minnesota was at the height…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “In the political world of checks and balances, where the three equal branches of government share power and keep each other in line, the veto…