Saturday, December 22, 2012
The Point of Grace Church minister had appeared at events with Bachmann last year during her run for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Editor's Note: As the year winds down, Waukee Patch is looking back at some of the stories that made you talk, cry, laugh or just scratch your head.This story originally ran on May 17. ________ Jeff Mullen, pastor of Point of Grace Church in Waukee and Republican state Senate candidate, received the endorsement of former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Wednesday, according to the Des Moines Register. The Minnesota congresswoman was frequently in Iowa last fall and winter as she campaigned for the GOP presidential nomination. In an email blast to her political supporters, Bachmann called Mullen a “conservative you can count on” who would be “a champion for our shared conservative principles” if elected, the Register said. …
Monday, December 17, 2012
From Michele Bachmann stumping at the Waukee Pizza Ranch to Tim Pawlenty giving a shout out to Mitt Romney at Chad Airhart's 35th birthday party, Waukee was a stronghold of GOP support in the 2012 presidential race.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Editor's Note: As the year winds down, Waukee Patch is looking back at some of the stories that made you talk, cry, laugh or just scratch your head. ______________________________ By Jody Gifford and Deb Belt Waukee was a GOP stronghold during the 2012 election campaign, and saw several visits by Republican presidential hopefuls trying to win the Iowa caucuses. From Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann stumping at the Waukee Pizza Ranch with a flub over the county's name to Minnesota Governor and one-time presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty mingling with Dallas County Republicans at Chad Airhart's birthday party, Waukee was a must-stop on many political tours. Here are some excerpts from the past year: Republican presidential hopeful …
Monday, July 30, 2012
The lawsuit filed Monday centers on who allegedly took a private email list and used it for the failed GOP presidential campaign of the Minnesota Congresswoman.
A Johnston campaign aide for former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann sued the Minnesota congresswoman and her senior campaign aides on Monday, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, claiming an official stole a private email list and that the Johnston woman was blamed for its use. The lawsuit filed by Barb Heki of Johnston claims that Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman, state Sen. Kent Sorenson, took the list from Heki's private computer to promote Bachmann's candidacy among Christian home-school advocates before the Iowa caucuses. Heki was hired to coordinate home-school supporters for Bachmann's Iowa campaign, the newspaper said. Phone messages left for Bachmann and Sorenson, of Indianola, weren't returned Monday. …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Point of Grace Church minister had appeared at events with Bachmann last year during her run for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Jeff Mullen, pastor of Point of Grace Church in Waukee and Republican state Senate candidate, received the endorsement of former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Wednesday, according to the Des Moines Register. The Minnesota congresswoman was frequently in Iowa last fall and winter as she campaigned for the GOP presidential nomination. In an email blast to her political supporters, Bachmann called Mullen a “conservative you can count on” who would be “a champion for our shared conservative principles” if elected, the Register said. The message plays up Mullen’s anti-abortion, pro-gun rights and small-government policy views, and implores supporters to give “generously” to his campaign. Mullen hosted Bachmann during the caucus…
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Caucus Rewind: Truly, we loved having you here. But we’re not all that sorry to see you go.
Goodbye, you and yours. By you, we mean the candiates, and by yours, we mean the national and international press corps, who move with the candiates amoeba-like, changing in shape and size as campaign intensity heightens. And by we, I mean Iowans. That no one was trampled to death during the Caucuses surely must count as one of this rich Iowa tradition's successes. One last time, some favorite images from the Iowa Caucuses. View the gallery – with editorial comment. There was a moment the other day at a Ron Paul rally when, trapped in the media vortex, I seriously wondered if "The Who" concert in Cincinnati meant anything to any of those people. Probably not. This was a young crowd. Wedged against a portable cube-shaped riser one of the …
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Unofficial cause of campaign's death: gaffes, staff churn and a fickle evangelical base that turned to someone else.
Michelle Bachman for President June 13, 2011 - January 4, 2012 Michele Bachmann’s downward spiral began almost the moment her campaign reached its zenith, with August’s victory in the Ames Straw Poll, a peculiarity of Iowa political pageantry that’s more Republican fundraiser than predictor of presidential preference. Her ascension to frontrunner status was fleeting, as a fickle Iowa electorate picked one, then another, favorite before finally settling Tuesday on Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, separated by only eight votes, in the state’s celebrated presidential caucuses. But among the true believers in Bachmann’s campaign — Iowans for whom God doesn’t come before country, but is inextricably tied to it — hers was a holy cause, a crusade. …
Iowans picked polar opposite candidates, but will that hurt its standing as first-in-the-nation Caucus?
Iowans offered the nation something less than a clear path forward with Tuesday night’s razor-thin finish, which gave the rest of the country a vastly disparate trio of top candidates in the Iowa Caucus. Republican consultant Chris Drummond, who ran U.S. Sen. John McCain’s South Carolina campaign in 2008, told a Charleston, SC news station, “This is obviously step one for the process. For us here in South Carolina, it means absolutely nothing.” It raises an interesting question: Did Iowa hold up its end of the bargain as voters prepare to hit the polls in New Hampshire on Jan. 10 and in South Carolina on Jan. 21 and so on throughout the nation? Political watchers in Iowa and elsewhere backed Iowa’s first-in-the-nation performance this time…
The aftermath: Beginning in Ames and ending in Clinton County, the candidates hit the road.
Oh, Iowa, what a long, strange trip it’s been. Remember August? That was the unofficial beginning of the journey to the caucuses, marked by Michele Bachmann’s victory at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames. The unofficial end of the campaign? Perhaps it was when Edith and Carolyn, two precious caucus volunteers out in Clinton County, provided CNN with the final Caucus tally after waking up their friend, another volunteer, to find out how many votes she had counted for each candidate. (If you weren't awake to hear them, you really ought to click here. Honestly.) The day after the caucuses, though, seems more like the real unofficial end. For the candidates, it’s the time for getting out of Iowa and into New Hampshire and South Carolina or, in …
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who had vowed Tuesday night to press on in her quest for the GOP presidential nomination, this morning announced she is ending her campaign. The Iowa native finished a distant sixth in the Caucuses Tuesday.
A prayerful Michele Bachmann ended her presidential campaign Wednesday morning, just hours after a crushing sixth-place finish in the Iowa Caucuses. The Iowa native failed to win even one of the state’s 99 counties, earning only 5 percent of the votes Tuesday. At a morning press conference at the Marriott in West Des Moines, Bachmann said she will not continue her campaign but has no regrets. "Last night the people of Iowa spoke with a clear voice; I have decided to stand aside. I believe we must rally around the party nominee," she said. "I will be forever grateful to this state and its people for launching us on this path." She did not take questions from the media after giving her speech this morning, and did not say which of the …
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Experts say Mitt Romney did what he had to do in Iowa, and is on a clear path to the nomination. Paul and Bachmann among the losers.
Political watchers say Mitt Romney did what he had to do in the Iowa Caucus and has a clear path to the Republican nomination for president. While former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum virtually tied Romney Tuesday, he lacks the general appeal to truly contest the former Massachusetts governor, experts say. Meanwhile, for third place finisher Ron Paul, the results were a setback. Now Romney heads to New Hampshire. Santorum may—or he could just focus on South Carolina. Romney continues to stay clearly in the lead in New Hampshire. A University of New Hampshire Christmas Day poll had Romney well in front with 39 percent of support followed by Gingrich and Paul, who were tied at 17 percent each. In two polls released on Dec. 29 and Monday, …
jennifer
3:28 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
Barf! He makes for a terrible representative of Pastors, so running for politics is probably much more appropriate for his lying, judgemental and crooked ways/ beliefs!! more ›