# Campaign Finance Board *Minnesota state body that administers campaign finance and public disclosure law under Minn. Stat. chapter 10A.* The **Campaign Finance Board** is the Minnesota state body governed by Minn. Stat. chapter 10A, which the Revisor of Statutes heads *Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board*.[^1] The state's agency directory lists the same office as the Minnesota Campaign Finance Disclosure Board.[^2] The Board's membership is set by Minn. Stat. §10A.02, a section the Revisor's 2025 compilation heads *Membership*.[^3] The Board publishes findings and orders on candidates and committees in an online archive of board actions. This record holds two of them. One is a set of findings in a matter titled for Eibensteiner.[^4] The other is a findings-and-order document dated February 24, 2006, concerning the Committee to Elect [[Keith Ellison]].[^5] The Board's reporting jurisdiction does not reach county offices. An entry in the project's at-issue record states that county attorney is a nonpartisan office in Minnesota and that county candidates report campaign money to the county auditor under Minn. Stat. ch. 211A rather than to the Board. The entry concludes that no state filings exist to search for any Minnesota county attorney.[^1][^6] ## Who Minn. Stat. §10A.02 governs who sits on the Board.[^3] The record compiled here does not quote that section's text. It also does not name the Board's current members, chair, or executive staff. The parties named in the two archived matters are a committee and an individual. The committee is the Committee to Elect Keith Ellison, and the individual is identified in the archive file title only as Eibensteiner.[^4][^5] The record does not state either party's office or party affiliation at the time of the proceedings. ## What The Board's archived outputs in this record are findings and orders in individual matters.[^4][^5] The archive holds two documents for the Committee to Elect Keith Ellison. The first is the findings and order of February 24, 2006, in PDF form.[^5] The second is an HTML findings document, which the project's link catalogue labels with the words "Insight News credit".[^7] The record does not establish the allegations, findings, or penalties in either Ellison document. It also does not establish them for the Eibensteiner findings. ## When The Board's findings and order concerning the Committee to Elect Keith Ellison are dated February 24, 2006.[^5] The record gives no date for the Eibensteiner findings. The archive file name begins with the number 32205, which is not interpreted here.[^4] ## Where The Board's findings are published on the Board's own website, cfb.mn.gov, under an archive of board actions.[^4][^5][^7] The Board also appears in the State of Minnesota's online agency directory.[^2] ## How The Board's authority rests on chapter 10A of Minnesota Statutes, as compiled by the Revisor.[^1] The project's claim:link catalogue files chapter 10A under its Theory 10. That heading groups thirteen Minnesota statutes that the project describes as exempt from the state Administrative Procedure Act and argues are ultra vires.[^1] The same list includes Minn. Stat. §469.169, governing the [[Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board]],[^8] and chapter 85A, governing the Minnesota Zoo Board.[^9] The APA-exemption description and the ultra vires argument are the project's legal theory. No court or agency in this record has made either finding. ## In the at-issue record At-issue entry AI-Sherburne-043 is drawn from a brief on Kathleen Heaney. Its source kind is listed as statute, with revisor.mn.gov as the source domain. The entry states that county attorney is a nonpartisan office and that county candidates report campaign money to the county auditor under Minn. Stat. ch. 211A, "not to the Campaign Finance Board."[^6] The entry adds that there are no state filings to search for Heaney or for any Minnesota county attorney. It concludes that disclosure for that office rests in "the county's own filing cabinet."[^6] The entry pairs this statement with a March 2025 presidential action titled *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos*.[^6] The record does not carry the text of chapter 211A itself. ## In the Minnesota record ### What The project's catalogue sets Minnesota's administrative apparatus against the federal government's description of it. On January 14, 2026, the [[United States Department of Justice]] Office of Public Affairs issued release No. 26-21. The release is titled *United States Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Minnesota's 'Affirmative Action' Regime*, and it uses the United States' own term for the State's apparatus: "Minnesota's 'Affirmative Action' Regime."[^10] According to the release, Attorney General Pamela Bondi certified the case as a matter of general public importance.[^10] The record does not show that the Campaign Finance Board is a party to that action, and it does not give the action's docket or current status. ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. ch. 10A, Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board* (current compilation) — the Board's governing chapter; also the citation the project's at-issue and claim:link catalogues attach to the Board's jurisdiction and to Theory 10. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/10A [^2]: State of Minnesota, *Minnesota Campaign Finance Disclosure Board* (agency directory page, undated) — state directory listing of the Board under that name. https://www.state.mn.us/Office/minnesota-campaign-finance-disclosure-board [^3]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. §10A.02 (2025), Membership* — statutory membership section for the Board. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/10A.02 [^4]: Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, *Findings, Eibensteiner matter* (undated in record) — the Board's archived findings in the Eibensteiner matter. https://cfb.mn.gov/pdf/bdactions/archive/findings/32205_RPM_Eibensteiner.pdf [^5]: Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, *Findings and Order, Committee to Elect Keith Ellison* (Feb. 24, 2006) — the Board's archived findings and order in the matter, with its date. https://cfb.mn.gov/pdf/bdactions/archive/findings/Ellison_Keith_022406.pdf [^6]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, entry AI-Sherburne-043 (Heaney brief), paired with Executive Office of the President, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (Mar. 2025) — the entry's statement on county-candidate reporting under ch. 211A and the federal action it is paired with. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^7]: Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, *Findings, Committee to Elect Keith Ellison* (HTML, undated in record) — second archived findings document for the committee, catalogued as concerning an "Insight News credit". https://cfb.mn.gov/pdf/bdactions/archive/findings/Ellison.htm [^8]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. §469.169* — statute for the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, listed with ch. 10A in the project's Theory 10 catalogue. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/469.169 [^9]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. ch. 85A* — statute for the Minnesota Zoo Board, listed with ch. 10A in the project's Theory 10 catalogue. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/85A [^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, *United States Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Minnesota's 'Affirmative Action' Regime*, release No. 26-21 (Jan. 14, 2026) — the release's title and Attorney General Bondi's certification of the case as a matter of general public importance. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-department-justice-files-lawsuit-against-minnesotas-affirmative-action-regime