Elwin Tinklenberg

Four months ago, Bob Anderson said there was one obstacle keeping him from jumping into the 6th Congressional District race next year: uncertainty about whether the Independence Party (IP) will continue its policy of cross-endorsement. Last election, when Anderson ran as an unendorsed IP candidate, the party endorsed Elwyn Tinklenberg, who was already the DFL’s endorsed candidate. Rep. Michele Bachmann squeaked out a win, with a margin of victory of just 3 percent. Anderson garnered 10 percent of the vote. “ I don’t want to get involved in that again ,” he told the Minnesota Independent in July, adding that he’d only consider running ... Read Full Story

Four months ago, Bob Anderson said there was one obstacle keeping him from jumping into the 6th Congressional District race next year: uncertainty about whether the Independence Party (IP) will continue its policy of cross-endorsement. Last election, when Anderson ran as an unendorsed IP candidate, the party endorsed Elwyn Tinklenberg, who was already the DFL’s endorsed candidate. Rep. Michele Bachmann squeaked out a win, with a margin of victory of just 3 percent. Anderson garnered 10 percent of the vote. “ I don’t want to get involved in that again ,” he told the Minnesota Independent in July, adding that he’d only consider running ... Read Full Story

Where is Micheele Bachmann? Today, folks across the 6th District are working hard to stay in their homes and keep their jobs. Families are gathered around the kitchen table, trying to pay their bills and save just a little bit for retirement or to send the kids to college. So with all this work to be done in Congress and here in Minnesota, where was Michele Bachmann this weekend? Riling up her national conservative followers in Palm Beach, Florida. According to the Washington Independent , Bachmann was a speaker at the Freedom Center’s “Restoration Weekend,” “a pricey four-day Palm Beach celebration of conservative ideas,” ... Read Full Story

As if Michele Bachmann’s 2010 re-election battle wasn’t already going to be a doozy, it’s begun shaping up as a proxy war between the forces of U.S. Sen. Al Franken and the man he bested in Minnesota’s recount, former Sen. Norm Coleman. “The eyes of the nation — and Michele Bachmann’s right-wing allies — will be on this race,” Franken wrote in an email today on behalf of Bachmann rival Tarryl Clark. ”I have no doubt [ Bachmann] is going to get re-elected by her constituents,” Coleman told an audience at Harvard University Tuesday night. Coleman wrote his own fundraising letter on behalf of ... Read Full Story

A pink slip is symbolic of job dismissal, a theme not lost on Rep. Trent Franks, R-Arizona, who said members need to vote the will of the people or be fired in the next election. Standing in front of poster boards on which dozens of the pink pieces of paper had been attached, Franks told reporters, “You are looking at just a sample of the 5 million pink slips that Americans have sent to Congress.” Those Americans, he said, are “people who are saying to members of Congress that ‘we are fed up with the absolute out-of-control spending, and we are going to respond ... Read Full Story