Mary Kiffmeyer's Press guy, Kent Kaiser, has gotten his letter supporting Bachmann published in the Scandia local paper. A Dump Bachmann reader informs me that Kent Kaiser is still working for Mary Kiffmeyer. A google search on Kent Kaiser retrieves this, a press release from Kiffmeyer's office which describes the 2006 SOS caucus promotion flyer In the title of the page, it says: For Release: Contact Kent Kaiser. I called Kent Kaiser's phone number - 651-297-8919 - and got his voice mail at Mary Kiffmeyer's office. Here's the letter as published in the St Cloud Times:
Letter: Bachmann showed skills with reunion
Kent Kaiser University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications Minneapolis
Recently one of my college students came to me with a need.
He knew a young Minnesota woman who had been a high school teacher in New Orleans last year.
The teacher had the idea, after Hurricane Katrina hit and dispersed her students nationwide, to raise money and bring some of the students to Minnesota for a brief reunion and to participate in a program at the state Capitol.
They had participated in a similar program in Louisiana.
The teacher raised a good deal of the money to make her idea a reality, but with the program almost set to start, she was $1,000 short.
I turned to state Sen. Michele Bachmann. I told her about the initiative and about the need. With one call to a corporate donor, she raised the money.
The students were reunited in Minnesota last week. It was a heartwarming event and would not have been possible without Bachmann's help.
Bachmann demonstrated an ability to bring people together to get things done.
She is running for the U.S. House of Representatives. If this effort to reunite the kids from New Orleans — as effortless as she made it seem — is any indication of Bachmann's talents, then I think she would make an excellent member of Congress.
A Dump Bachmann reader informs me that the Rev Samantha Wood has responded to Kaiser's letter promoting Michele Bachmann:
Busy up here in Scandia. Haven't forgotten about y'all.
Kent Kaiser's letter was also in last week's local Scandia/Marine
newspaper. The Rev. Samantha Wood had this response in this week's
paper:
Well, I see in the January 18th Messenger that Senator Bachmann is back on the campaign trail, this time eyeing a spot as our US Representative (Senator Bachmann Lends a Hand).
It should be no surprise that Bachmann can obtain money from her corporate connections with a single phone call. Her campaigns are, after all, bankrolled by wealthy individuals who can't even vote for her. In fact, 71% of her reported campaign contributions from January to September 2005 came from wealthy special interests outside her district, including $3,000 from anti-woman zealot Phyllis Schlafly and $4,000 from wealthy Georgia real estate developer Barry Conner, who advocates abolition of all public education.
Although Bachmann campaigned in 2002 to be "the voice of the people, not the big-money, outside interest groups," the people of Scandia and Marine have received little from her. She has refused to meet with constituents of different viewpoints than her own and plants shills in her public meetings to steer conversation to her talking points. She won't hold town meetings in Marine, and her last town meeting in Scandia resulted in Bachmann's grossly exaggerated and bizarre statements to the local sheriff and the press about an alleged incident at the meeting that even her political colleague, Ray Vandeveer, failed to corroborate (April 9, 2005).
Democrat or Republican, our district deserves better than a representative who doesn't know fact from fiction, who is afraid of her own constituents, and who fails to fulfill the simplest of promises: to be the voice of the people, not special interest groups.
Rev. Samantha Wood
Scandia, MN
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