The air was like a sauna. Rain came and went in the morning and the afternoon. And Carver County was under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. The weather gave Chanhassen residents something to remember their first summer primary voting experience by.

The Southwest Metro Tea Party is hosting a candidate forum for the Carver County Commissioners that have primary races this Monday at the organization's regular weekly.

The Southwest Metro Tea Party is scheduled to host a candidate forum this Monday at the organization's regular weekly in the Chanhassen Library for the Carver County Commissioners that have primary races.

"Minnesota state Rep. Paul Kohls, R-Victoria, has tried to reform that state's no-fault system" (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jun/15/151116/1-800-ask-gary-growing-be...).

Ernie Leidiger, a Camden Township resident and owner of Brothers Office Furniture, beat out two candidates on Monday night for the Republican endorsement in House District 34A.

He was endorsed on the second ballot at a special convention called in Norwood Young America after Rep. Paul Kohls, R-Victoria, announced he would not run again due to a job change.

By Forrest Adams

On Sunday evening, May 16, Rep. Paul Kohls (R-Victoria) gave his retirement speech to colleagues in the House of Representatives. On Monday morning, he found himself still in the capital, but this time speaking out against the budget compromise that was ultimately passed.

“It was odd,” he said. “I felt like the Brett Favre of the Legislature.”

Kohls, 36, is younger. He plans to retire from the legislature after this year.

Could Chaska, along an undeveloped section of Highway 212, be the future home of the Minnesota Vikings?

Fresh off a legislative session that ended with a balanced budget and a special session earlier this week, Gov. Tim Pawlenty was in Chaska on Wednesday morning for the annual Chanhassen Rotary Club scholarship breakfast.

By Forrest Adams

With Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto of a proposed DFL budget bill Tuesday afternoon, the Minnesota state legislature found itself in familiar territory with a multi-billion dollar budget deficit and just days before the scheduled end of the legislative session.

Local legislators are all on the record supporting Pawlenty and voting against the vetoed budget bill.

As part of a panel discussion last week at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Sen. Julianne Ortman (R-Chanhassen) said, "The logical outcome [of a Supreme Court ruling against Gov. Pawlenty's use of unallotments to balance the state budget] is we can have a constitutional budget crisis in the next few months.”

For more information, go to http://politicsinminnesota.com/blog/2010/05/humphrey-panel-unallotment-r....