Bachmann Campaign Worker to Become MnSCU Trustee?

Blue Man in a Red District blog has the scoop: Recent discussions I have had with colleagues in St Cloud and Mankato have produced a third candidate for the Board, a candidate who has been supposedly recruited by someone in Governor Pawlenty's office, in a blatant attempt to thwart the work of 4 year students across the state. Luke Hellier's name has emerged as a candidate for the MnSCU Board of Trustee's, as the 4 year student representative. The post has a great deal about Mr. Hellier's activities including his work on the 2006 Bachmann campaign: Which leads me to my run in with Mr Hellier. I worked a few parades this summer above and beyond my own, walking for Amy Klobuchar and Patty Wetterling. I believe we were in Monticello for a parade, having a great time when I confronted a Mr Hellier as his group, including himself was walking through the Wetterling group on a parade route putting Bachmann stickers on Wetterling signs and the 8 foot banner. Hellier, holding a video camera, filmed me "asking him" what he was doing and that what he was doing had crossed a line and that they needed to stop. It was an interesting confrontation to say the least. Bill Prendergast also had a similar experience with a Bachmann campaign worker and his video camera: Now these next photos are downright creepy, and you won’t see them in any of the papers. Prior to the rally, when the demonstrators began to arrive, this hefty fellow in a suit and tie was videotaping them from inside the Water Street Inn, so I assume he was somehow associated with the Bachmann event. Later he came out and started photographing them outside the building, too—didn’t seem interested in recording anything except the people who were protesting the Bachmann/Rove event. I asked him who he was, whether or not he was with the Bachmann/Rove event, why he was videotaping the people who were protesting—and he refused to say! Refused to even answer me; just stared straight ahead and frowned. Isn’t that weird? Does anyone recognize him? Heavyset guy; in his twenties; a little Van Dyke beard? Very KGB for a small town America political event, I think—recording the faces of people who protest, and refusing to say who you are and why you’re doing it. What, are they making some kind of “list” for future reference? Welcome to Karl Rove’s America; Michele Bachmann’s Minnesota. Here's one of the photos Bill took of the mystery man with his video camera: In a subsequent post, Prendergast announced he had discovered the identity of the mysterious man with the video camera... Luke Hellier: