http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-hab ... 08965.html
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In a shock announcement Wednesday night, Iowa state senator and onetime Michele Bachmann campaign leader Kent Sorenson declared that he is now supporting Ron Paul for president.
Sorenson made the announcement at a Paul rally with veterans here in Des Moines, telling the crowd: "I believe we're at a turning point in this campaign."
Calling the decision to abandon Bachmann a painful one, Sorenson said he felt obligated to join Paul as the "Republican establishment" tries to undermine his campaign.
"I thought it was my duty to come to his aid, just like he came to my aid during my Senate race, which was a very nasty race," Sorenson said, pledging to go all-out for Paul over the next few days.
To cheers from the crowd, he continued: "We're going to take Ron Paul all the way to the White House."
So yesterday Bachmann's campaign chairman in Iowa defected to Ron Paul.
Bachmann accuses Sorenson of getting paid off to join the Paul campaign and then one of Bachmann's Iowa Political Director Wes Enos comes to Sorenson's defense to say that isn't true.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/bachmann-vows-to-continue-in-iowa-despite-loss-of-senior-campaign-officials/
Bachmann was forced to explain Thursday not only why her Iowa chairman, State Sen. Kent Sorenson, defected from her campaign to endorse Ron Paul at the 11th hour, but also why her senior political advisor issued a statement refuting Bachmann’s explanation.
Sorenson, Bachmann told reporters Thursday, was “offered a great deal of money” by the Paul campaign to switch teams just five days before the first-in-the-nation caucuses on Jan. 3.
She characterized Sorenson’s departure as political poaching, calling it an “aggressive action by the Ron Paul” campaign.
Bachmann’s Iowa political director, Wes Enos, who like Sorenson joined her campaign in its first days, released a statement under Ron Paul’s letterhead refuting Bachmann’s assertion that Sorenson had been paid to go. Sorenson and Enos both say the state senator decided to back Paul because he had many friends on that campaign, and believed Paul has the best chance of winning.
According to Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart, Enos “is no longer with us,” but she would not confirm whether he’d been fired for insubordination or left on his own accord.
She said her campaign’s organization was strong and she had registered 95 county chairs for caucus night. She said the Paul campaign went after Sorenson after she dealt Rep. Ron Paul a blow in the last televised debate, hammering him on national security issues.
What a crazy b****. She actually thinks she has "momentum" and that she dealt Ron a "blow" in the last television debate despite him shooting to the top of the polls shortly after.
It's funny that she has mentioned politifact on numerous occasions during on the campaign trail and debates when they actually came out and expose her lying.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... d-launch-/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... -and-said/
As for some more laughs, today she said she wants to be the US version of Marget Thatcher despite her support of the NHS in the UK. Must of skip over that part Michelle.
29 Dec 2011, 6:34 pm
