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Eric DeGroot

Personal (please list occupation, education and family): I grew up on a dairy farm north of Lake Wilson and attended Chandler-Lake Wilson schools until the 1992 tornadoes destroyed our high school. I graduated from Murray County Central in Slayton and then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in ...

Amy Klobuchar

1. Summarize why you are running for office? What are your priorities? I grew up in Minnesota and got involved in politics after John and I had our daughter, Abigail. Abigail couldn’t swallow and was in intensive care, but I was discharged from the hospital after just 24 hours because ...

Erik Osberg

Summarize why you are running for office. What are your priorities? I’m running for Congress because I believe that we can do better. I’m running to defend the Constitution and to restore checks and balances. I’m running to get corporate money out of politics to end corruption in ...

Peggy Flanagan

Summarize why you are running for office. What are your priorities? I’m running for the United States Senate to help people afford the lives they want to live. I’m someone who grew up on the margins, feeling like the bottom could fall out at any moment. Raised by a hardworking single mom, ...

Michelle Fischbach

Summarize why you are running for office. What are your priorities?
 I have always worked to make sure we have strong rural communities, where our children and grandchildren can live and thrive. I have heard repeatedly from constituents about the horrible fraud in Minnesota. I am working to ...

Judge puts off decision in Comey case as prosecutors pursue new indictment against ex-FBI head

WASHINGTON — A federal judge put off a decision Friday on whether to dismiss a placeholder criminal case filed against former FBI Director James Comey, giving the Justice Department an opportunity to pursue an indictment over allegations of a decade-old news media leak. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden acknowledged, though, that despite the Justice Department's hopes, an indictment was no sure thing in a nation's capital where grand juries have repeatedly rejected prosecutors' requests for charges in politically delicate cases. And he said that in the meantime, he would be ...