Minnesota Independent

At Medicaid signing, Dayton lends mic to tea party

By Andy Birkey | 01.05.11 | 11:03 am

On Wednesday morning, Gov. Mark Dayton signed an executive order allowing Minnesota to accept early Medicaid funding under the Affordable Care Act amid hundreds of tea party protesters at the Capitol. As the tea party booed Dayton, he handed over the microphone and allowed opponents to have their say. Among those speaking was Jake McMillian of Bradlee Dean’s controversial hard rock ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide.

Hard rock ministry tied to tax evasion scheme

By Andy Birkey | 01.03.11 | 8:22 am

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, Inc. (YCR), the Annandale-based hard rock ministry run by Bradlee Dean and Jake McMillian, set up trusts with help from a ministry in Oregon which has been a target of the IRS investigations for setting up tax avoidance schemes all over the country.

Bradlee Dean: Keith Ellison is advancing Sharia law through ‘homosexual agenda’

By Andy Birkey | 12.01.10 | 10:15 am

Bradlee Dean of the religious ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International believes Rep. Keith Ellison’s support for LGBT rights is part of his strategy to bring Sharia law to the United States. On his radio show Saturday, Dean said that members of the LGBT community are fools for supporting Ellison and that the Minnesota Democrat is “adamant about overthrowing the United States Constitution.”

Bradlee Dean: LGBT advocates use anti-gay bullying efforts to ‘go after kids’

By Andy Birkey | 10.06.10 | 11:11 am

The head of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, a hard rock ministry that holds Christian assemblies in public schools, told radio listeners on Saturday that efforts to create a more tolerant climate at Anoka-Hennepin School District in the aftermath of six suicides, three by gay youth, were actually efforts by homosexuals to “go after the kids.” Bradlee Dean also stated that “one in twenty homosexuals is a child molester.”

Bradlee Dean says Bachmann, Emmer will appear in his new video

By Andy Birkey | 09.27.10 | 12:31 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann and GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer will appear in a documentary by Bradlee Dean, the front man for the controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide said on his radio program Saturday. Dean also said that LGBT people protesting Target over political contributions to groups supporting Emmer are “criminals.”

3M among corporations giving to pro-Emmer group MN Forward

By Patrick Caldwell | 09.22.10 | 11:44 am

Despite public backlash against Target Corporation’s political donations to a Republican-run independent expenditure committee that is backing GOP-endorsed candidate Tom Emmer for governor, other Minnesota businesses continue to contribute to the very same group, MN Forward — including 3M, which gave the group $100,000.