Esquire: Michelle Bachmann's Bad Awful Month (about Sorenson and the email list)

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I haven't bothered posting articles on this, but this one mentions the reason I have no sympathy for her on this point

Bills are piling up in an Iowa court case, Heki v. Bachmann, filed by another former Bachmann staffer,Barb Heki. That suit alleges that onetime state campaign chairman and state Senator Sorenson stole from her-and then used with the candidate's knowledge-an email list of Christian homeschool families in Iowa. Heki's accusation has been backed by a sworn affidavit by former campaign staffer Eric Woolson, who had also been named in the suit, though charges against him were dropped after he submitted his affidavit...Separately, the Urbandale Police Department in Iowa has conducted its own investigation into the theft of that list, and the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee had been probing the actions of Sorenson for allegedly taking "under-the-table payments" from her campaign, according to Waldron, the former Bachmann staffer who filed the initial complaint. In a written response to the committee, Sorenson has "vehemently denied any wrongdoing as alleged." (That investigation has been put on hold until the criminal investigation is complete.) Ironically, when Sorenson defected to Ron Paul's campaign days before the Iowa caucus, Bachmann herself publically [sic] charged that the influential state senator had told her that he'd been "offered a large amount of money" to shift his allegiance.

Read more: Michele Bachman Campaign Investigation - Michele Bachmann's Bad, Awful Month - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/michele-bachman-problems-continue-032713#ixzz2On43ZRIs

I remembered her doing that and it really cost Ron in Iowa just before the caucuses when he was absolutely not doing anything of the kind, and her supporters were leaving her and deciding for whom to vote. If SHE was doing that, as alleged, it shows where she got the notion from. Someone in her staff also accused Ron's campaign of being the ones who took the email list, but why they would have only sent out a Bachmann email to it, was puzzling.

Because of those things, I haven't any sympathy for her over this.