One State Fair mini-doughnut booth is run by Democrats. Republican bill would clamp down on it [View all]

For local Democrats, there’s always money in the mini-doughnut stand.

Over the last 50 years, or so, a group of Democrats from Ramsey County has organized volunteers to run a doughnut booth at the Minnesota State Fair. The group, which has been registered as the “10th Ward & Rural Ramsey County (fka DFL Donut Booth)” since 1977, then contributes the profits to local Democratic-Farmer-Labor groups.

“It operates like any other booth at the Fair,” said the group’s chairman, Marc Asch. Asch, who served a term in the Minnesota House in the early 1990s, started making doughnuts in 1987 at the State Fair before moving up to dough-maker and manager. Now he runs the political action committee.

But Republican lawmakers say the booth is unlike any at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

Instead, said Rep. Randy Jessup, R-Shoreview, it is a “black stain” at the State Fair.

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