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Anderson to battle Bachmann… if he lands IP endorsement

By Andy Birkey | 04.05.10 | 3:53 pm

Bob Anderson, the independent candidate who in 2006 drew votes from Rep. Michele Bachmann and El Tinklenberg, her DFL-Independence Party opposition, says if he gets the Independence party endorsement he will enter the race again this cycle.

Clark fundraises over Bachmann’s latest ‘Anti-American’ comments

By Andy Birkey | 03.25.10 | 3:21 pm

At an anti-abortion event on Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann reiterated a statement that she’d herself repudiated in the past: That President Obama is anti-American. “I said I had very serious concerns that Barack Obama had anti-American views,”

Franken, Coleman top fundraisers in ’08 cycle

By Andy Birkey | 12.29.09 | 3:22 pm

franken colemanThe Federal Elections Commission has released a full report of the 2007-08 election cycle, and two Minnesota races top the lists. Sen. Al Franken raised the most money of any congressional candidate with $22.5 million, and former Sen.…

Abortion foes fund Bachmann, bash Clark

By Andy Birkey | 07.30.09 | 3:39 pm

With more than a year to go until the general election, abortion is already becoming an issue in the 6th Congressional District race. An analysis of anti-abortion campaign donations finds that Rep. Michele Bachmann is one of the country’s top earners — and she’s delivered for her contributors on that issue. At the same time, local anti-abortion forces are already tarring DFL candidate Rep. Tarryl Clark just a day after she announced her candidacy.

Tinklenberg pipes up: I’m in to win!

By Paul Schmelzer | 07.27.09 | 11:45 am

TinklenbergWith so much early speculation about the race to unseat Michele Bachmann in Congressional District 6, perhaps Elwyn Tinklenberg didn’t want to be left out. Bachmann’s 2008 challenger has seen headlines big and small: Maureen Reed’s entrance into the…

Obamacize it: Online Shepard Fairey icon generator

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.13.09 | 3:36 pm


Making the cover of TIME wasn’t the peak of Shepard Fairey’s successes this election season: his iconic Obama poster was purchased by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery for an undisclosed sum, and…

Biggest underachiever on congressional Democrats’ big night? Probably Minnesota

By Steve Perry | 11.05.08 | 12:29 pm

The main question for the national Democratic party this morning may be what to take for all those post-victory hangovers, but at some point the chieftains of the Democratic congressional apparatus will get around to examining those few places where the party failed to make the most of a decisive Barack Obama win. And when they do, Minnesota — where Obama turned in the strongest Democratic presidential performance since 1976 — is likely to be at the top of the list.

Last-second ad flurry ads hits 6th District

By Andy Birkey | 11.03.08 | 7:53 am


Before Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Oct. 17 statements on MSNBC about “anti-America views” she feared some in Congress hold, the airwaves in the 6th Congressional District were relatively quiet. But over the past two weeks well over…

Ad blitz continues in the 6th with new DCCC release

By Andy Birkey | 10.30.08 | 4:20 pm

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is putting up a new television spot in the 6th Congressional District attacking Rep. Michele Bachmann on the economy.

Meanwhile, Bachmann’s ad attacking Democratic challenger El Tinklenberg gets panned by Minnesota Public Radio’s Tim

Radio on the TV: Bachmann posse poses for cameras at MPR debate

By Chris Steller | 10.30.08 | 3:31 pm


Supporters of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann rallied on a dead-end street outside Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) studios in St. Paul today, where the embattled member of Congress debated Democrat El Tinklenberg for 30 minutes (archived MnIndy liveblog