Posts Categorized: 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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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,… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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,… Read more »