Minnesota Independent

NOM pressures Pawlenty to sign its marriage pledge

By Andy Birkey | 08.05.11 | 9:04 am

Tim Pawlenty is taking heat from the National Organization for Marriage for not signing the group’s pledge to oppose efforts to legalize same-sex marriage. On Thursday, the group announced that Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum had all signed the pledge. But while Pawlenty has hesitated to take the pledge, he gave the Miami Herald a piece of his mind on gay marriage on Thursday.

Video: Bachmann aims for straw poll in new ad

By Jon Collins | 08.03.11 | 11:34 am

The ad will run statewide in Iowa starting Wednesday.

Pawlenty campaign tied to oil industry astroturf group

By Jon Collins | 08.03.11 | 9:07 am

Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign is taking heat for its cozy relationship with a nonprofit group run by oil industry trade groups. Pawlenty advisers Karen Slifka and Chuck Larson are also working for the Iowa Energy Forum, a nonprofit consortium of oil industry lobbying groups that’s shooting to influence the outcome of the primary in early states, leading to accusations of conflict of interest from other campaigns.

Tim Pawlenty. Photo: Gage Skidmore, Flickr

Pawlenty announces 29 Iowa county chairs

By Jon Collins | 08.02.11 | 11:52 am

Pawlenty still needs to recruit chairs for 70 more counties.

Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: Gage Skidmore, Flickr

Bachmann to address Florida’s CPAC in September

By Ashley Lopez | 07.29.11 | 1:00 pm

Presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann is scheduled to speak at CPAC Florida in September. The American Conservative Union event — its first regional Conservative Political Action Conference — will be held in Orlando.

NARAL highlights reproductive health stances of 2012 GOP candidates

By Sofia Resnick | 07.29.11 | 9:01 am

Of the approximately 15 Republicans who have either announced or hinted a run for president in 2012, the abortion-rights policy group NARAL Pro-Choice has identified the 12 most prominent potential contenders as presenting a threat to women’s access to abortion and family-planning services — Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty among them.