Bachmann for Senate?
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 5:00 am
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Users signing up for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s congressional campaign website got a surprise this weekend: the website thanked them for signing up for “Bachmann for Senate.” Martiga Lohn, state capitol reporter for the Associated Press found the typo and tweeted the image on Saturday. The Bachmann campaign said the “Bachmann for Senate” address was a typo.
There’s been a lot of speculation among Tea Partiers and conservatives that Bachmann is seeking higher office. In several interviews, Bachmann has sidestepped a direct “no” answer to the question, instead saying she’s focusing on her 2010 campaign.
“You know it’s not what I’m doing right now. I’m one of Speaker Pelosi’s top targets this fall, so all I’m focused on this fall for 2010 is making sure that I win,” she told a conservative radio host last week.
It’s the same answer she gave in 2004 when as a state senator, many people speculated she would run for Congress in 2006. “My plans are to get through to 2006. This is my only plan right now, to get this (gay-marriage issue) on the ballot,” she told the Star Tribune at the time.
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Comment posted June 14, 2010 @ 12:28 pm
I went to a fundraiser for Bachmann’s 2008 opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, where he said Republicans were talking about Bachmann challenging Klobuchar. They probably assumed Coleman would be running for reelection in 2014 so Franken didn’t ocur to them. Since Tim Pawlenty appears to be running for president, and the Republican bench in Minnesota is, well, look at their candidates for statewide office this year, a Bachmann candidacy seems possible.
Remember too that we’re likely to lose a seat after restricting, and her district might go way, leaving her residence in a swing district at best, and possibly no Minnesota district conservative enough for her to win and without a GOP incumbent.
Comment posted June 14, 2010 @ 4:28 pm
Later in that same interview, Bachmann said “I’m from Al Franken territory” – which tells me that either she does not understand the difference between a senator’s constituency and a representative’s constituency, or she is focused on Franken’s office.
Either way, she never seems to stop campaigning and actually do the job she was elected to do.
Comment posted July 19, 2010 @ 12:27 pm
The Bachmann campaign said the “Bachmann for Senate” address was a typo.
Really? How self-serving and convenient a typo, that.
Can you imagine the mischief possible if Michele Bachmann could put anonymous holds on appointments, engage in filibusters based on what ever conspiracy bugs her this week?
A Senator Michele Bachmann would make Senator Bunning seem like a go-along kind of guy, and make today’s republicans seem positively cooperative, compared to her likely approach to being a US Senator.
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