We missed this item from Josh Moniz's April 25, 2014 political notebook:
. . . Bill Walsh, the current director of public affairs at the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus, said [Biers left the caucus on Tuesday. He said he cannot comment on personnel issues, so he could not provide the reason for Bier's departure.
Biers and the Miller campaign did not return several phone calls seeking clarification on whether the change impacts Bier's position with the campaign.
Byron resident Aaron Miller, who is the endorsed Republican candidate challenging Democrat incumbent Rep. Tim Walz of Mankato, has spent $21,330 total over the last nine months of the campaign on Capital Communications, the campaign consulting firm registered to Bier's address.
The spending represents 66 percent of $32,007 total that Miller raised from individual donors this campaign. Alternatively, it represents 75 percent of Miller's total fundraising from individual donors when the $3,500 donation from Miller himself is taken out.
Given the Miller's campaign's investment in Biers, any further developments with him may have an impact on the campaign.
According to a January 9, 2013 report in Politics in Minnesota, Biers was appointed communications director for the Senate Republican caucus when the Republicans regrouped afer losing the chamber in the November 2012 elections. Prior to serving as communications director, Biers " was the committee administrator for the Senate Health and Human Services Committee under Sen. David Hann," who became the minority leader for the disminished caucus, PIM noted.
In PIM's April 23, 2014 Capitol Note, Mike Mullen reported in Comings and Goings:
- Senate Republican staffer Brad Biers, an aide to Senate Minority Leader David Hann, has left the caucus, according to a staff email tweeted by the Star Tribune’s Rachel Stassen-Berger.
Should the Miller campaign be spotted again (see news reports on his website) please let us know if the political veteran is hanging around or if his relationship to the Miller campaign is evolving.
Biers served as a consultant for 2008 Walz challenger Brian Davis for much of the Mayo doctor's unsuccessful bid. Biers left the Davis campaign in August 2008 to work for the Taxpayers' League "No Constitutional Tax Increase” campaign. The heritage amendment won with 55.99 percent of the vote. Walz won the First that year with 62.50 pecent to Davis's 32.93 percent. Biers also worked on Allen Quist's 2010 unsuccessful bid for party endorsement in CD1.
Bluestem noted Biers' presence in the Miller campaign in Is Brad Biers following the Brodkorb career path in the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus?; we considered his post-Davis career in a 2011 post, Scott Kranz, Brian Davis and the missing years of Brad Biers.
Photo: Political consultant Brad Biers.
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