Coffee & Conversation: Common Cause
Saturday, September 9, 2023 Host Tee McClenty is joined by Annastacia Belladonna-Carrera from Common Cause Minnesota. Common Cause is a non profit often described as a watchdog of democracy. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Friends of BWCA
Saturday, August 12, 2023 Host Ron Goldser is joined by Scott Beauchamp from Friends of the BWCA discussing the challenges of protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Secretary of State Steve Simon
Saturday, July 8, 2023 Host Ron Goldser is joined by MN Secretary of State Steve Simon to discuss changes in election law from the last legislative session. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Moms Demand Action
Saturday, June 10, 2023 Host Ron Goldser is joined by Representative Liz Reyer, Senator Jim Carlson, and John Barden from Moms Demand Action discussing gun safety legislation. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Marijuana Legalization with Ryan Winkler
Saturday, May 13, 2023 Host Ron Goldser is joined by former House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler who now advocates for cannabis legalization. He talks about the status of the MN legalization bill. |
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Book Club with author Chris Whipple
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Book club discussed The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House with the author himself, Chris Whipple! |
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Coffee & Conversation: Robert Hubbell
Saturday, April 8, 2023 Host Ron Goldser is joined by lawyer and political analyst, Robert Hubbell, to discuss the state of our democracy, politics and what's ahead. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Tee McClenty and MN350
Saturday, March 11, 2023 Tee McClenty, DFL52's Outreach Officer and Executive Director of MN350, leads a discussion on climate change with MN350 staff. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Legislative Update with Representative Ruth Richardson, Representative Liz Reyer & Senator Jim Carlson
Saturday, February 11, 2023 Our local legislators discuss their accomplishments so far this session and what they still hope to achieve. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Kent Pekel, Rochester Public Schools Superintendent
Saturday, January 14, 2023 Host Ron Goldser talks with Kent Pekel about the challenges he faces as Superintendent of Rochester Schools, including how hard it is to call a snow day! |
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Coffee & Conversation: Mike Mulcahy, MPR News
Saturday, December 10, 2022 Host Ron Goldser interviews they guy who usually does the interviewing: Mike Mulcahy of MPR news! Also, appearances from Senator Jim Carlson and new Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Election Recap
Saturday, November 12, 2022 What a great election for DFLers in general and SD52 in particular! Join host Ron Goldser as he recaps the election and then talks to Senator Jim Carlson and Representatives Ruth Richardson and Liz Reyer. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Election Integrity
Saturday, September 10, 2022 Host Ron Goldser discusses election integrity with Simone Frierson, Coordinated Campaign Voter Protection Director, and Simon Barnicle from Marc Elias' legal team. Click here to sign up to help the State DFL voter protection team. There's a job for everyone! |
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Coffee & Conversation: Representative Ruth Richardson
Saturday, August 13, 2022 Guest host Tee McClenty interviews Representative Ruth Richardson who is our DFL endorsed candidate for House District 52B. Get to know Ruth and all the work she does as CEO of Wayside Recovery Center in addition to being an effective legislator! |
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Coffee & Conversation: Representative Liz Reyer
Saturday, July 9, 2022 Host Ron Goldser interviews Representative Liz Reyer who is our DFL endorsed candidate for House District 52A. Please vote for Liz in the August 9 primary! You can vote now in person at Eagan or Burnsville City Hall! See our Election 2022 page for more information on how to vote. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Congresswoman Angie Craig
Saturday, June 11, 2022 Host Ron Goldser interviews Congresswoman Angie Craig. |
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Convention Speech from Angie Craig
Angie had to miss our convention due to Covid, but she made a recording for us that talks about what she's doing to make CD2 a great place to live and work. |
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Coffee & Conversation: Opioid Panel Discussion
Host Ron Goldser leads an important discussion on the opioid crisis. He was joined by Attorney General Keith Ellison, Judge David Knutson, Judge Carmen Means, and Katie Pylkas-Blue, CARN. Topics included recovery, drug courts, and the Purdue Pharma settlement. |
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Coffee & Conversation with Friends of the BWCA
Host Ron Goldser talks to Chris Knopf, Executive Director of Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness about the politics around copper nickel mining including what you can do to help at precinct caucuses! |
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Coffee & Conversation with Fair Vote MN
Hear about ranked-choice voting from Jim Dorsey, board member of Fair Vote Minnesota. Host Ron Goldser and Jim talk about how RCV works, how it affected the Minneapolis elections and more! |
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Coffee & Conversation with Tree Trust
Host Ron Goldser is on location in Hastings with Jared Smith of Tree Trust. You'll hear about the work they do training young people to be arborists as well as planting trees to make our communities greener. |
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Tree planting with DFL51
Eagan DFLers planted trees in Northview Park on September 21, 2021. Hear interesting tree facts while watching us dig! |
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Coffee & Conversation with Dakota County Commissioner Laurie Halverson
Hear what Laurie Halverson has been up to since she left the state legislature! Host Ron Goldser asks Laurie about what the county is doing around covid, housing, climate change and more. |
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Coffee & Conversation on American Foreign Policy
Two professors with expertise in American foreign policy in the Middle East joined us for Coffee & Conversation on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Host Ron Goldser interviews Dr. Dipali Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Andrew Latham. |
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Coffee & Conversation on Transportation
NUMTOT co-founder, Juliet Eldred, joined us for Coffee & Conversation on Saturday, May 22, 2021. Juliet gave a presentation on the evolution of public transportation in the United States. Also, Eagan City Council member, Gary Hansen, talked about transportation in Eagan and the Twin Cities. We also heard from State Auditor Julie Blaha and our local legislators. Host Ron Golder hosted a very interesting discussion! |
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Coffee & Conversation on Policing
A number of guests joined us for Coffee & Conversation on Saturday, April 24 for a conversation on policing. Host Ron Goldser moderated a discussion with St. Thomas law professor, Mark Osler, State Rep Carlos Mariani, who is chair of the House Public Safety Committe, State Senator Jim Carlson, State Rep Liz Reyer, and State Rep Sandy Masin. |
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Coffee & Conversation with Al Franken
Former Minnesota Senator Al Franken spoke at DFL51's Coffee & Conversation on Saturday, April 10, with host Vice Chair Ron Goldser. The topic was "How Mitch McConnell broke the Senate." Hear Al's plan to reform the filibuster (and his McConnell impression too)! |
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Coffee & Conversation on the National Debt
Professor Louis Johnston from the College of St. Ben's/St. John's University spoke at Coffee & Conversation on Saturday, March 27, 2021. The topic was "The National Debt: How Much is Too Much?" He answered the question by saying there is no tipping point where the U.S. debt is too much. You can hear most of the conversation here. |
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Coffee & Conversation with Keith Ellison
Over 40 DFLers tuned in to Coffee & Conversation on Saturday, March 13, 2021, to hear Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison talk about a wide range of issues moderated by host, Ron Goldser. |
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True Blue Celebration Speakers
True Blue Celebration 2021 was a big success raising over $3,000 for our voter outreach efforts and DFL candidates! Thanks to everyone who attended and donated! Watch the full remarks by Congresswoman Angie Craig and election lawyer, Marc Elias. Shorter clips are shown below. |
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Prepared and paid for by Senate District 52 DFL Committee, Lisa Noah, Chair, PO Box 21222, Eagan, MN 55121
Not in conjunction with any candidate or campaign committee.
Copyright 2023 Senate District 52 DFL
Not in conjunction with any candidate or campaign committee.
Copyright 2023 Senate District 52 DFL