Representative Michele Bachmann held her first debate since she quit running for President. Her opponent for Congress in next week's election is Democrat Jim Graves. The debate was held Tuesday afternoon in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
After redistricting, Michele Bachmann no longer lives in the Sixth Congressional District. No problem: she's going to run for Congress in the Sixth again anyway. The law doesn't say you have to live in the district you represent in Congress. (Who knew?)
Since she spent months claiming and proclaiming her Iowa roots, maybe she could run for Congress there?
It was a good weekend for Tom Horner, the Indepedence Party candidate for governor. He picked up endorsements from editorial boards in some of Minnesota’s biggest papers, including the dailies in Duluth and Minneapolis. Less surprising is Tarryl Clark’s endorsement over incumbent Republican Michele Bachmann by the St. Cloud Times: that paper endorsed the last Democrat to take on Bachmann, Elwyn Tinklenberg, in 2008.
The St. Cloud Times is the latest in a string of major local and national media outlets that have taken issue with Rep. Michele Bachmann's public statements about health care reform.
At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor "most of the American people" paid attention to.
Jason Isaacson will serve as campaign manager for Maureen Reed as she seeks to defeat U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann. Isaacson previously worked on Al Franken's U.S. Senate campaign.
Tarryl Clark has received endorsements from the Minnesota AFL-CIO and the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council in her campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann.
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