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Bachmann to attend Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit

By Andy Birkey | 08.18.11 | 12:11 pm

Michele Bachmann has confirmed that she will speak at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC, in October. Bachmann has attended the summit, put together by the Family Research Council, an organization that is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, for the past four years.

Conservatives at Values Voters Summit argue that social issues still matter

By Luke Johnson | 09.20.10 | 9:18 am

Christian conservatives shouldn’t let “people come out and tell us that we have to put the values issues in the back of the bus,” Rick Santorum told the 2,000 activists gathered for the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Friday. “We have to have a truce on the values issues because the economic issues are paramount.”

At Values Voters Summit, Bachmann praises tea party, predicts GOP wins

By Andy Birkey | 09.17.10 | 11:27 am

Speaking at the Values Voters Summit on Friday morning, Rep. Michele Bachmann defended the tea party and predicted a Republican takeover of Congress in 2010. “I am so eager for November to come I can’t wait!” she said as she greeted the crowd.

Pawlenty will be on presidential ballot, says half of Minnesota in poll

By Chris Steller | 09.22.09 | 10:18 am

pawlenty-careeningMinnesotans know something that even the national conservative elite doesn’t: Tim Pawlenty will be the next Republican nominee for president. Or so half of those polled in the state told Rasmussen Reports.