Minnesota Independent

EdWatch, group that helped launch Bachmann’s career, closes after 12 years

By Andy Birkey | 12.28.10 | 10:51 am

Edwatch, a controversial conservative education watchdog group, announced that its operations will close at the end of the year. Founded as the Maple River Education Coalition in the late 1990s, the group was an incubator for the political career of Rep. Michele Bachmann and drew the ire of elected officials in at least three political parties. The group was pro-gun, anti-homosexuality and opposed to federal intervention in local education.

Quist: Liberals seek ‘worldwide education system’ to push ‘left-wing propaganda’

By Andy Birkey | 03.30.10 | 1:15 pm

GOP congressional candidate Allen Quist’s ideas about education are anything but conventional: a curriculum he wrote concludes that humans and dinosaurs likely co-existed, uses the Vikings to disprove global warming, and says God is the source of all law. But on Phyllis Schlafly’s radio show this weekend, Quist’s criticisms were reserved for liberals, who, he says, want to rewrite the Constitution “start to finish” and establish a “worldwide education system” that teaches, among other topics, “global warming nonsense.”

Quist eyeing Walz challenge?

By Paul Demko | 10.13.09 | 1:06 pm

Allen Quist has been largely out of the political spotlight for roughly a decade. But according to a recent report on Bluestem Prairie, the conservative Republican is mulling a run at U.S. Rep. Tim Walz in the First Congressional District.

GOP’s Quist says antique map disproves global warming

By Jon Pike | 07.21.09 | 3:45 pm

oroncefine Former state representative and two-time Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Quist claims that a map from the 1500s “disproves the theory of man-made global warming.” In a recent piece for Ed Watch, the…