Strange Items in Michele Bachmann's FEC Disclosure

From a Dump Bachmann reader: Check out page 36 on her FEC October report. "Storm Chasers" is listed as the name, and the employer space is blank. Is this a corporate contribution? What's up with that? Also check p. 39--$100 a month for office rent? Is that believable, or an illegal campaign contribution? Good questions. It's Clinic Property LLC on 8669 Eagle Point Road (looks like Eagle "Poiny" Road on the image) in Lake Elmo that is listed as the office. This is the address for Michele Bachmann's husband's clinic. Yesterday's post about City Pages "Best Meltdown" award winner John "Hindrocket" Hinderaker's contribution to the Michele Bachmann campaign provoked comments. One commenter claiming to be "Tom Barnard" sounds quite a bit like NARNian Mitch Berg. Mitch - if you comment here, please use your real name, or a fake one - but don't impersonate other people. Tom Barnard isn't going to waste his time commenting on the Dump Bachmann blog. Rew commented that Hinderaker listed himself as "self-employed" and didn't list Faegre and Benson as the employer. The John Hinderaker listed on the FEC Report does live in Apple Valley - and lists his occupation as "lawyer". This is consistent with Hindrocket's bio on Powerline. Developing. . .

City Pages Best Meltdown Award Winner Contributes to Bachmann

John Hinderaker, winner of the City Pages Best Meltdown Award contributed $500.00 to Michele Bachmann's campaign. See page 17 of Michele Bachmann's October FEC Report. Michele Bachmann is certainly pushing to get Hindrocket's IDiocy taught in Science classes. Professor Volokh seemed to assume that someone who doesn't believe in evolution is a harmless crank, who should not on that account be barred from pursuing a career in, say, medicine. My own view is different. I think that Darwin's theory of macroevolution is plainly wrong, on strictly scientific grounds. So to bar a student from progressing in his career because he refuses to sign on to what is, in my view, a rather obvious fraud, which cannot withstand the mildest scrutiny, is really an outrage. It is no different from the practice in Soviet Russia of promoting only biologists who believed (or pretended to believe) in the theories of Lamarck, who argued that acquired traits could be inherited. But Darwinism is the official religion of the biological (and more generally, the scientific) establishment, and as such is rigorously enforced. I understand that Hindrocket isn't well respected among his peers at Faegre and Benson. Other partners tend to roll their eyes when his name is mentioned. Is this the type of language Michele likes her children to hear: You dumb shit, he didn't get access using a fake name, he used his real name," he huffed in his e-mail. "You lefties' concern for White House security is really touching, but you know what, you stupid asshole, I think the Secret Service has it covered. Go crawl back into your hole, you stupid left-wing shithead. And don't bother us anymore. You have to have an IQ over 50 to correspond with us. You don't qualify, you stupid shit. - John Hinderaker Hindrocket should join Michele the next time she is a guest on Tom Barnard's show.

Michele Bachmann Falling Behind in Fundraising

Michele Bachmann's report is here. Phil Krinkie is leading the fundraising race - having raised 142K for the reporting period ending September 30. He has 225K cash on hand. Michele Bachmann is trailing in this area having raised 85K with 166K on hand. The question is whether Michele's ability to mobilize her base will outhustle Phil Krinkie's fundraising. The other question is whether Michele plans to fall back on her senate seat if she doesn't think she can win party endorsement.

Campaign Kick Off for David Francis

It sounds like the DFL is serious about getting a DFLer into the senate seat Michele Bachmann currently holds: Thursday November 3, 2005 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. At the Historic Water Street Inn 101 South Water Street (by the St. Croix River at the end of Myrtle Street) Stillwater, Minnesota 55082 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres, Beverages, Cash Bar -- time to get acquainted. 6:30 pm Guests' and Candidates' Remarks Special Guests: Senator Ann H. Rest, Assistant Senate Majority Leader State Senator Steve Kelley, Candidate for Governor of Minnesota I look forward to spending time with you and learning about your interests and concerns. What are you concerned about? What issues would you like me to voice during the campaign? What would you want me to accomplish in the State Senate? RSVP by October 21, 2005 Questions? Please call me at 651.275.1082 Or email: capfrancis@msn.com Requested Donation, $50/person. Your donation may be refunded by Minnesota's Political Refund Program. Also on November 3rd, there is tentitively going to be a 6th District candidate debate between Elwyn Tinklenberg and Scott Mortensen. I've heard through Stonewall DFL sources that the Tinklenberg campaign is interested in meeting with Stonewall DFL. If Republicans were smart they would see if Gary Laidig wanted to return to the legislature.

Constitutional Amendment to Ban Vikings Sex Parties

Andy from Eleventh Avenue South calls for a constitutional amendment to ban Vikings Sex Parties. Michele, where are you?

Welcome to Chuck Darrell, ED of Minnesotans for Marriage

Welcome to Dump Bachmann, Chuck. We are glad you stopped by to promote your site. I was looking at that Pastor's summit breakout sessions. I've got some questions and suggestions for your upcoming event. Tax Status and Free Speech Experts from the American Center for Law and Justice will provide legal advice for Churches on what they can, and cannot do from the pulpit and within the Church body. Seems like "Litigation Tax Attorney" Michele Bachmann and Edwatch both should attend this one. Culture Shakers Gaining the tools and knowledge to activate your congregation and community. Hmmmmmm... Current Climate An overview of church and state relations regarding family issues in Minnesota and an question and answer forum with representatives from Minnesota's major political parties. Facilitated by Tom Prichard, President of MFC. It will be interesting to see who from the Democrats is going to go to this one. Maybe Al Juhnke? Will he talk about Gambling? Has Minnesota for Marriage taken a position on Gambling? Or perhaps Tom Prichard will go on a detour and discuss torn rectal linings. "Our Town" Ministry Tools Building bridges for urban ministry partnerships and gaining insight for ministry responses to inner city and family issues. Will the Urban Vultures be featured? The Truth of the Homosexual Lifestyle Becoming equipped and prepared to reach out and minister to those walking the homosexual lifestyle. Powerful testimonies will be shared. Let me guess.... UPDATE: It appears that the google cache of Karl Bremer's interview of the MFC's Tom Prichard that was linked with the text "torn rectal linings" has disappeared. This was a google search of "Tom Prichard torn rectal linings." It used to be that the first result (if you were "feeling lucky") was the repost of Karl Bremer's "Sodomy and Fornication" post at mn-politics to the Students for Family Values web forum. Well the original post is still available here. I should always remember to get screen shots of these things.

Michele Bachmann, Janet Boynes and Willie Wilson - Oh My!

Pam Spaulding from Pam's House Blend has picked up on yesterday's post with the background on Michele Bachmann's Ex-Lesbian, African American sidekick, Janet Boynes. Janet Boynes was one of the speakers at this years Bachmann amendment rally. Seems like the anti-gay Willie Wilson might want to invite her to speak at his church. Maybe the Minnesotans for Marriage and Tom Prichard from the Minnesota Family Council will invite Willie Wilson to do a reprise of this "sermon". We live in a time when our brothers have been so put down, can't get a job, lot of the sisters making more money than brothers. And it's creating problems in families. That’s one of the reasons our families' breaking up. And that's one of the reasons many of our women are becoming lesbians. You got to be careful when you say you don’t need no man. I can make it by myself. Well, if you don't need a man, what's left? Lesbianism is about to take over our community. I'm talking about young girls. My son in high school last year, trying to go to the prom, he said, ‘Dad, I ain’t got nobody to take to the prom because all the girls in my class are gay. There ain’t but two of them straight and both of them are ugly. I ain’t got nobody to take to the prom.’ Now, can I talk here? I ain't homophobic, because everybody in here got something wrong with him. Whoever you point at, you can point at your own self. You got something wrong with your life. But when you get down to this thing, women falling down on another woman, strapping yourself up with something, it ain't real. That thing ain't got no feeling in it. It ain't natural. Any time somebody got to slap some grease on your behind, and stick something in you, it's something wrong with that. Your butt ain't made for that. [Audience shouts and yells its approval in the background.] You got blood vessels and membranes in your behind. And if you put something unnatural in there, it breaks them all up. No wonder your behind is bleeding. It's destroying us. Can't make no connection with a screw and another screw. The Bible says God made them male and female. The Hebrew word "neged," which means complementary nature — there is something unique to man and unique to woman and it takes those two things to complement each other. You can’t make a connection with two screws. It takes a screw and a nut! (shouting). -- "Reverend" Willie Wilson, also Executive Director of the Millions More March, July 3rd Listen to the sermon here.

Scott Mortensen and "El Tinklenberg" on Race to the Right

Scott Mortensen was a guest on Race to the Right yesterday. Audio of the interview is available here and here. Links to the full podcast here. They claim to have an interview with Elwyn Tinklenberg. The voice on the radio doesn't sound like Elwyn Tinklenberg.

Stillwater Gazette Column that Got Bill Prendergast Fired

I've talked to Bill Prendergast and he said that the pressure to the Gazette was from local Stillwater politicians, NOT Michele Bachmann. I'll be talking to him sometime in the next few weeks SUGGESTED HEADLINE: Right Wingers Appointed to District 834 School Board—Without Any Election At All? Two old Stillwater pals were sitting at the counter in the diner, having their pie and coffee. "So who's the conservatives on the School Board are these days?" "Well, ya got Coach Thole, right? And ya got Junker. And then there's the two newest conservatives, Hoffman and Kunze. They're the majority on the Board. Those support all that Republican we-ain't- gonna-have-no-new-taxes bull. That's how we got the schools into this mess and got our property taxes raised in the first place, ya know. But Thole’s the only one of them up for re-election this year." "So there's only one conservative seat up for grabs, then." "Yah but ya see, one theory is that if there’s a conservative elected onto the school board this year, we’ll get an even more conservative majority on the school board for years to come." "How ya figure that?" "Well ya see, there's a theory goin' around that two conservative members of the school board, Hoffman and Junker, might retire. And maybe they’re going to wait to retire until January." "Why would they wait til then?" "So the Board can appoint their replacements without havin' no election. See, if Junker and Hoffman retire next year, the School Board gets to decide who their replacements on the Board will be. Not the voters. Ya get me? The replacements would be appointed by the School Board, instead of having to run for office. The voters would have no say in who was going to fill those two seats, see? A conservative majority on the school board could appoint people who never even had no chance of being elected, they could appoint replacements who are even further to the right than Hoffman or Junker. They could appoint Kate Carlsen to the School Board, even though her candidacy didn't even make it through the primary. Hell, a conservative majority could appoint Lu Shaughnessy to replace Hoffman or Junker." "Hoo boy." "Yah, and even before this election we got all these conservatives on the school board, they voted to cut the school bus services, they fired the kid’s crossing guards out on Stillwater Boulevard—" "On Highway 5? Jeez, that's a four lane highway, ain't it?" "Yah, well now they're puttin' the crossin' guards back cause the big election's comin' up, see?" "Oh, so they look good for the election. I getcha." "Yeah, but after the election's over, if the right wingers get in again they're gonna start cuttin' again." "Ya think they'll cut back school buses some more?" "Ah, they wanna keep the taxes down. Conservatives really hate the public schools, ya know. They wanna take money out of the public schools until the public schools fail and die. They sure as hell don't wanna pay taxes to support public schools." "Yeah, but they say they support education." "Ah, that's a bunch of baloney. Look at the record around here of the conservative school board members and all those conservatives in St. Paul cutting Stillwater school funding. You look at what's been cut here in the last couple of years, you know they’re all lyin' like dogs." "So who's the conservatives runnin' for School Board now?" "Well, there's George Thole, he's already on the board and he's a conservative. The conservative runnin' who ain't already on the Board are Carlsen and Rheinberger.” "Carlsen got knocked out in the primary.' "That don't mean nothin', the last two conservative candidates got in as write-ins; Carlsen could do the same. There's enough dummies in this town that'd vote for her 'cause they don't understand how it raises their own property taxes. Then there's this other candidate they got runnin', Rheinberger, he's real right wing, but he's keepin' a lid on it these days. He's tryin' to fool the voters into thinkin' he's mainstream or somethin'." “What makes ya think he’s a secret right winger?” “Well, for while there, he was tryin’ to persuade folks that we oughtta sell off the public library so’s we could all save the taxes.” “Oh ho ho! Yeah, I remember that now. Jeez, what a character. Didn’t he say we oughtta burn it down for the insurance?” “Nah, nah, that wasn’t Rheinberger, that was Prennergass, the goofball who writes in the Gazette.” “Hey, ain’t that Pernerfass right dere?” “Where?” “Right dere, sittin’ on the stool next to ya, ya blind old dope! Hey, Brennerpass, you tryin’ to listen in on our conversation?” “Well no, gentlemen, but I couldn’t help overhearing—“ “Go on, get outta here, Blendergass! Go have yer own conversation, if you can find anyone who’ll talk to ya, ya...” And so I got up and left the diner, and walked out into the night, along the rain-soaked streets of Stillwater—alone. William Prendergast is the author of the crime thriller “Forbidden Hollywood” and he thinks it’s ironic that you conservatives of the St. Croix Valley voted for a bunch of conservative legislators and conservative school board members whose policies have just raised your property taxes by 8%--in one year. Not counting the school levy, by the way.

Michele Bachmann's African American Ex-Lesbian Side Kick: Janet Boynes

When Bachmann spoke in Hutchinson, Minnesota, Janet Boynes flew up with her and spoke also. (I still don't know who paid for the private plane.) I first saw Janet Boynes (but did not talk with her) when Dale Carpenter debated Glen Stanton at the MacLaurin Institute debate on the U of MN campus. Janet was sitting next to Michele Bachmann (who was seated right behind me). Janet asked a question after the debate, where she made the point that gays have a choice to be gay, and African Americans don't make a choice to be black. About a week after I saw Janet in Hutchinson, I saw her again at Outfront's listening session with minority gays. When I debated Michele Bachmann on KKMS, Janet called in and stated that gay women are frequently in butch/femme relationships, and so why not go for a male/female relationship. When I saw Janet in Hutchinson, she asked if I'd be willing to get together with her for lunch, because she wanted to get to know me better. We did get together for lunch, but the lunch was off the record. A google search on Janet Boynes gives more background. Senator Michele Bachmann, Janet Parshall and Janet Boynes were all speakers at the Unlimited Faith conference. Here's a wrapup. Janet was a guest on Relevant Radio, a radio network approved by the US Conference of Bishops. I wonder what Bishop Harry Flynn thinks about them. Marketplace Luncheon Speaker Senator Michele Bachmann Senator Bachmann was first elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2000 and is currently in her second term of service. She has made jobs, commerce, energy, education, taxes and capital investment her special legislative concerns. She is a tax litigation attorney, and received her education from Coburn Law, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, and the College of William and Mary. She is married to Marcus, and they have five children. Senator Bachmann will bring a fresh word in regards to being a light in the Market Place of life to the ladies that choose to attend the Market Place Luncheon. Here's Janet Boyne's bio from the conference: Janet Boynes Janet Boynes is a renowned speaker and activist who speaks out for those living a gay lifestyle and wanting change. Her compelling story will give others the courage to find God, seek change, and lead the lifestyle that was always meant for them to lead. She lived as a lesbian for fifteen years, but when she found Christ, everything changed. God's love called her out of the homosexual lifestyle six years ago, and now she wants to tell her story. Janet has spoken in churches, on TV, on radio, and is currently writing a book to share her story of God's love. Called Out Come hear the triumphant testimony of one who was lost, but God loved her enough to find her and bring her back. Hear the compelling story of how Janet walked away from the Lord and found her way back after living a Lesbian life for fifteen years. She is featured in the anti-gay Minnesota Family Council's "Pro-Family News". Former lesbian says change comes from inside out by Janet Boynes with Sharon M. Knudson While Janet Boynes is reluctant to talk about her lesbian past, she realizes that it is her privilege to tell how she has been set free by Christ, and how others can be, too. Explains Janet, "Christians need to know what draws a person into the gay lifestyle, and what they can do to help people break free of it." Following is Janet's on powerful story, told in her own words. A big factor that drew me into a lesbian lifestyle was the abuse I witnessed and experienced as a child. My parental figures were my single mother and the four men who fathered her seven children. I was the middle child of the seven, and saw my mother repeatedly abused by "big men." Determined to avoid that same fate for myself, I became a tom-boy. I hung out with guys and became known as a bully. I moved from Philadelphia to St. Paul to attend college, and gave my life to Christ at Jesus People Church. Although I dated men, I still had a fear of them. Then I became engaged to a great Christian guy and we enrolled in pre-marital counseling at our church. But I was lonely. My fiancé traveled extensively, so I spent a lot of time with girlfriends. When a girl I'd met at work initiated a sexual relationship one night, I was caught off-guard and went along with it. Immediately I knew how Eve must have felt. Condemned! I sought out my pastor the next day, and he told me that, of course, the wedding had to be cancelled. Devastated and repentant, I told my fiancé everything. "No, that's not you," he protested. "You just made a mistake." But I had such a strong sense that God had turned His eyes away from me that I walked away from the Lord. It was hopeless, I thought, so I might as well have "a season of fun." Now, years later, I know I was mistaken on all counts. God never left me (He continued to protect me and work in my life), and I never found the satisfaction I was looking for in the gay lifestyle. Instead, I went from relationship to relationship and became totally confused. Was being gay OK with God? (My girlfriend and I asked a priest about it and he assured us it was fine.) Should I have a sex change? Was the Christian life I had previously enjoyed over for good? Would I die before I could repent and come back to the Lord? Deep down I knew only the Lord could rescue me. Didn't the Bible say Jesus seeks any of His sheep that get lost? I'd see people on the bus reading their Bibles, and I'd want to run up to them and say, "Help me! I'm a backslidden Christian and I don't know how to get right with the Lord." Fourteen years went by. I had a cleaning business and owned my own home in Maple Grove. Whenever I’d pass the Maple Grove Assembly of God Church near my house, an inner voice would tell me that someday I'd be going to that church. The suggestion was so strong that I even mentioned it to my girlfriend and we laughed about it. Yet the idea stayed with me even though I was doing drugs, cheating on my steady girlfriend, suffering from an eating disorder, and extremely unhappy. I knew the Lord was knocking on the door of my heart (Revelation 3:20), but I didn't know how or even "if" I should respond. One night I ran to the grocery store, and noticed a woman in the parking lot with her groceries at 3 a.m. She said she'd been helping her son move into the dorms at Northcentral Bible College, so I knew right away she was a Christian. We talked and talked, and then she invited me to come to her church — Maple Grove Assembly of God! I accepted her invitation, and a few days later went to her Bible Study. I came in late, and there sat nine feminine women. I was dressed like a boy in an old shirt and jeans with a hair-band around my cropped hair. I wanted them to like me, and I knew I wanted Jesus, but I had no idea how to get back to Him. Those nine women loved me as I was. They answered my questions and helped me every way they could. When I asked them, they gave me pointers on how to dress and apply make-up. They educated me about spiritual warfare, and helped me break the stronghold the devil had erected over my life. The change in me was so dramatic that I sold my home and moved in with a Christian family for a year. I needed that role-modeling of a healthy family life and being held accountable. I never could have survived as a Christian without it. Gradually, my mess became the message of salvation. It was a real struggle, but I wanted God more than I wanted the lesbian lifestyle. Six years later, I still stay in the Word of God and pray daily that I won't slip back into that lifestyle. I try to stay transparent, accountable, and control my thoughts. I never could have changed my life by myself, but now I can say, "Look at what the Lord has done!" It suggests Janet is suppressing her feelings. That is her choice. I know God wants me to speak out about these things. Hollywood makes the homosexual lifestyle look so glamorous. Gay activists are aggressively pushing for society to condone their agenda. But we need to remember that God is "in the changing business" and wants to transform lives. The Christian women at Maple Grove Assembly loved me and spent time with me, and that made me want to grow spiritually. Janet believes you can't be gay and be christian. I have other friends who went through the ex-gay ministries, but who came to the conclusion that you can be gay and christian. Janet continues: Too many gays and lesbians "hate" Christians and feel condemned. But it's the love of Christ, not condemnation, that draws us toward repentance. After all, everybody wants the same thing: love and acceptance. When God calls us out of darkness and into the light (I Peter 2:9), He calls in love. That's nonsense. There is hostility to the gay obsessed leviticus crowd types. Gay people I know are not hostile to christians. There are many gays who stay away from christian churches because they believe that the churches are hostile to them. There are more and more churches that are reaching out to gay parishioners.

Bachmann Offered Hearing On TABOR and Refused

One of the reasons Michele Bachmann told constitutuents she ran for office was the Tax Payers Bill of Rights (TABOR). She regularly introduces TABOR. According to Linda Higgins, Tax Chair Larry Pogemiller offered Michele hearing on TABOR, and she turned him down.