Tom Emmer says faculty opposition persuaded Hamline to revoke the offer.

​Ever since he lost the gubernatorial race last year, Tom Emmer has been having a tough time trying to land a new career.

Earlier this year, Emmer, also a lawyer and former state representative, lost a bid for Republican National Committeeman, and later took a gig as a radio jock at Fox News-affiliated KTLK-FM.

Now Emmer's calling foul on Hamline University, which he claims offered him a teaching position, but later revoked it after complaints from faculty who didn't agree with his politics.

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Tom Emmer thinks Nick Espinosa should be arrested for assault and, uh, littering?

​When Tom Emmer ran into gay rights advocate/prankster Nick Espinosa at the Minnesota State Fair, it looked a lot more likely that Emmer would hurt Espinosa than the other way around. He didn't, but Emmer was pretty forceful in telling Espinosa to "take a hike."

But rather than using old-timer tough talk to deal with Espinosa's pranksters, Emmer's got a better idea: Get the cops and district attorneys involved, and lock these criminals up!

On the Davis and Emmer radio show this morning, Emmer felt like he needed to stick up for "the marriage amendment folks," referring to anti-gay marriage group Minnesota for Marriage, whose booth was the target of a horrific glitter-bombing at the State Fair. There were no survivors.

No, just kidding. But Emmer still freaked out pretty good about it.

"You know what?" Emmer asked his listeners. "It's an assault."
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Mark Dayton gets help from Tom Horner

​For the second time in one week, a new statewide poll shows Democrat Mark Dayton pulling ahead of Republican Tom Emmer in the race for governor. And this time he has a double-digit lead.

The numbers from the just-released MPR/Humphrey Institute poll also show that Independence Party candidate Tom Horner is sucking the wind out out of Emmer's sails.

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Attention Emmer supporters: Just look for this sign.

​Republican candidate for Tom Emmer has scheduled a GOP rally right down the road from the strip club where his son, Tripp, visited right before he got busted for underage drinking in July.

Emmer kindly posted a map to the Sept. 29 rally on his website, but he left off directions to Lookers over in Carlos. An oversight, we're sure, so we've posted our own map to help his supporters find the place.

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Mark Dayton, left, leads Tom Emmer, right, in another poll.

​DFLer Mark Dayton leads Republican Tom Emmer in the race for governor by 9 percentage points in a Star Tribune opinion poll released over the weekend.

With one exception, that result continues Dayton's pattern of beating or tying Emmer for the lead since statewide polling began earlier this year.

Independent Tom Horner remaining in third place with a small but growing share of approval.

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Tripp Emmer told police he was drinking illegally at a strip club named Lookers in Alexandria.

​Tripp Emmer and a bunch of his hockey-playing buddies got drunk and visited a strip club on July 10. Then they got nabbed for underage boozing, and managed to help drag Republican Rep. Tom Emmer's drunken driving history back into the spotlight as his campaign for governor got rolling.

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Mark Buesgens: Part of a booze problem in the Emmer campaign.

​This is starting to look like a pattern.

Following state Rep. Mark Buesgen's arrest Saturday on drunken driving charges, Tom Emmer now has to deal with four separate stories involving members and former members of his campaign, and their run-ins with the law over alcohol consumption.

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Mark Buesgens: Out of the ditch and into trouble.

​Republican state Rep. Mark Buesgens tried to drive his car out of a ditch Saturday night and steered right into a pile of trouble, both for himself and Tom Emmer's campaign for governor.

A Wright County deputy said a field sobriety test showed Buesgens had twice the legal limit allowed of booze in his system, and he was arrested for drunken driving. He also had an open bottle in the car.

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Tripp Emmer smiles over an unconscious girl with male genitalia drawn on her face and arms.

​Last night, Fox9 repeatedly showed photos that City Pages ran last week of a beer-lubricated party involving Tripp Emmer, as well as a shot of him smiling over a passed out girl with penises drawn on her face and arms.

Then the news network asked: Is this newsworthy?

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Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer are even in a new state-wide poll.

​Republican Tom Emmer has consistently trailed his Democratic opponents in governor's polls over the past few months. And lately he's been the butt of attacks over his drunken driving convictions and his support from Target.

So today must feel like a victory of sorts: He has pulled even with Democratic opponent Mark Dayton in a new Minnesota Public Radio News and Humphrey Institute poll. Independence Party candidate Tom Horner once again trails in a distant third.

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