Better late than never. Two years after Minnesota's last election for Governor, Minnesota Public Radio is tracking the money that helped to defeat Republican candidate Tom Emmer in a recount-close race. MPR focuses on two groups, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota and WIN Minnesota, that together spent $5.2 million in electing Mark Dayton as Governor.
Alert readers of this space will recall that back in May, we tracked some of the money to these groups from the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation.
MPR's main story does a good job naming names and establishing facts. These groups are turning their attention this year to getting the DFL party back in power at the state legislature. We need to ask ourselves whether we will allow out-of-state monied interests to determine who governs this state.
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