Tarryl Clark, Michele Bachmann

Just as DFL congressional candidate Tarryl Clark uses Rep. Michele Bachmann’s appearance at a conservative conference in Florida in a fundraising appeal, word comes out that Bachmann will be showcased at yet another such affair: the National Tea Party Convention in February. But Bachmann won’t get top billing: that honor goes to Sarah Palin.

This morning Clark’s campaign sent out a fundraising email that poked Bachmann for “riling up her national conservative followers” at the Freedom Center’s “Restoration Weekend,” a David Horowitz–organized event where she rubbed elbows with the likes of Phyllis Schlafly and Ann Coulter, instead of tending to district needs. Referencing a Washington Independent post about the event, the email states that it’s time for a congresswoman who’ll fight for district residents “not the conservative power-players of Palm Beach,” where the four-day event was held.

Several hours after the email hit inboxes Tuesday, organizers of the National Tea Party Convention tweeted that Bachmann would be a speaker at the Feb. 4–6 event in Nashville. Palin keynotes the convention, which is “aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movements’ multiple organizations principle goals.”

Here’s the text of Clark’s fundraising email:

Where is Micheele Bachmann?

Today, folks across the 6th District are working hard to stay in their homes and keep their jobs. Families are gathered around the kitchen table, trying to pay their bills and save just a little bit for retirement or to send the kids to college.

So with all this work to be done in Congress and here in Minnesota, where was Michele Bachmann this weekend?

Riling up her national conservative followers in Palm Beach, Florida.

According to the Washington Independent, Bachmann was a speaker at the Freedom Center’s “Restoration Weekend,” “a pricey four-day Palm Beach celebration of conservative ideas,” alongside Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly, and Newt Gingrich.

It’s time for a Congresswoman who will actually do the job and whose first and only priority is to fight for the people of Minnesota, not the conservative power-players of Palm Beach.

Tarryl Clark will always put us first. Just as she has in the State Senate, Tarryl Clark will go to work every day to fight for the people of her district – not promote her own personal agenda or build her national celebrity.

With your help, we can send Tarryl to Congress to work for us – not her national network. You can be sure we have the resources to defeat Congresswoman Bachmann and get to work with a donation of $25, $50, or $100 today.

Sincerely,

Zach Rodvold

Campaign Manager

p.s. Make no mistake – Michele Bachmann was in Florida to support her own agenda, and to drum up even more national financial support for her campaign from wealthy conservatives. But with your support and a financial contribution today, we can ensure we have the resources to take her on and win.