[MN-06] Bachmann's campaign simply can’t keep up

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Friday October 01, 2010 · 9:37 AM PDT

2010/10/01 · 09:37

I’m Joe Cupka, Political Director with the Minnesota DFL in the 6th Congressional District, where Tarryl Clark is running to defeat Michele Bachmann.

Tomorrow, the landscape of Minnesota’s 6th District and its voting electorate is going to be changed.

We’ve set a goal of knocking on over 10,000 doors in the district tomorrow, October 2nd, exactly one-month out from Election Day.

There’s no substitute for what can be accomplished with a face-to-face conversation with a voter – and we’re going to have thousands of them.

We’ve already knocked on more than 50,000 doors over the course of the summer, and when a race is close, a strong grassroots presence can push one side over the other.

After tomorrow, more voters are going to be aware of Tarryl Clark, more voters are going to be voting for Tarryl Clark, and more voters are going to feel empowered by Tarryl Clark and her campaign.

And we’re just getting started.

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Thursday September 30, 2010 · 10:45 AM PDT

2010/09/30 · 10:45

I’m Lauren Beecham, Finance Director for Tarryl Clark’s campaign for Congress.

This is it folks.

We are now in the final 24 hours of the last critical fundraising deadline of this campaign and we need your help. It’s time to end the career of Michele Bachmann: a politician who does nothing for her district, but plenty for the special interests that have hijacked Washington.

We’ve held her accountable for her defense of BP, her plan to wean seniors off Social Security and her cozy relationship with Wall Street and the Big Banks.

And it’s working.

Michele Bachmann has already spent more than $1.5 million in attack ads misleading voters about Tarryl Clark and her record – and it has gained her NOTHING in the polls. No incumbent spends $1.5 million on negative attacks unless they think they’ve got a serious problem.

Well, Michele Bachmann does have a serious problem: Tarryl Clark.

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Tuesday September 28, 2010 · 10:14 AM PDT

2010/09/28 · 10:14

I'm Carrie Lucking, the Communications Director for Tarryl Clark’s Campaign for Congress in Minnesota.

Michele Bachmann has now spent over $1.5 million on false and misleading attack ads against Tarryl Clark. In fact, with no positive record of getting anything done for her constituents, that's ALL she's done: negative attacks, one after another.

Today, we are striking back with a new ad - but unlike Michele Bachmann and her ads, we don't distort, we don't deceive, and we don't lie. We don't need to.

We've got Bachmann in her own words - again.

Check out our latest ad, "Rehab," and see what Michele Bachmann has in mind for those of us who hope to retire with peace of mind someday.

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Saturday September 25, 2010 · 8:54 AM PDT

2010/09/25 · 08:54

Recently, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann decided to take a break from her national travels and parachute back into Minnesota for a two day election year drive-by tour of her district.

To get around Minnesota’s 6th District, most people take their car or truck – it takes about an hour and a half to drive from one end to the other. But get this: Bachmann needed a luxury coach bus to find her way around. She billed it as a “bus tour” of her own district, and the media ate it up.

Well, this week we decided to organize a two day, seven community “Pontiac Tour” of the 6th District. On it, Tarryl met with small and medium-sized business owners in St. Joseph, Becker, St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Blaine, Lake Elmo, and Woodbury – discussing with each of them the challenges they face in this tough economy, especially without a Congresswoman on their side in Washington.

Unlike Bachmann, who has held just a handful of public meetings and events in her district in all of 2010, Tarryl’s been on this ‘tour’ and talking with voters for well over a year now.

And we don’t need a luxury coach bus in order to do that.

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Wednesday September 22, 2010 · 10:26 AM PDT

2010/09/22 · 10:26

Michele Bachmann is up on the air with yet another attack ad this week, and for the second week in a row, “Fake Jim” the Election Guy is nowhere to be seen.

It seems to be official: Bachmann’s Fake Jim is off the air. The people of Minnesota’s 6th District weren’t buying what he was selling, and no longer will he mislead Minnesotans, or attack Tarryl for supporting policies that Bachmann also supported. Despite his challenges with the truth, we’ll all miss Fake Jim.

In fact, the Real Jims were so broken up about Fake Jim’s demise that they wanted to pass along this memorial video to all of you.

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Friday September 10, 2010 · 7:38 AM PDT

2010/09/10 · 07:38

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has already spent over $1 million on a series of negative ads featuring a paid actor calling himself “Jim the Election Guy” making misleading accusations and telling lies about Tarryl Clark and her record.

Today, you too can be the subject of one of Bachmann’s fake Jim attacks. We’ve launched a new website called www.bachmannsfakejim.com where you – and your family and friends – can see what outrageous claim “Jim” makes about you!

Did you break up the Beatles? Are you the leading cause of global climate change? Who knows! You’ll have to see it for yourself to find out.

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Monday August 30, 2010 · 8:00 AM PDT

2010/08/30 · 08:00

I’m Zach Rodvold, Campaign Manager for Tarryl Clark’s campaign for Congress against Michele Bachmann in MN-06.

Last week, Michele Bachmann took her name-calling to the airwaves with an ad attacking Tarryl and her record. This week, we’re telling Minnesotans what they really need to know about Tarryl in a new TV ad.

The ad, called “Need to Know,” begins airing later today thanks to the financial support of over 30,000 supporters, and we wanted you to be among the first to see it. Check it out here:

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Thursday August 26, 2010 · 8:40 AM PDT

2010/08/26 · 08:40

Hi, I’m Carrie Lucking, the Communications Director for Tarryl Clark’s Campaign for Congress in Minnesota.

Last Tuesday, Michele Bachmann introduced us to “Jim the Election Guy” in the first of what will apparently be a series of attack ads. In it, "Jim" calls Tarryl Clark names – with a smile on his face. Very “Minnesota Nice” isn’t it?

No one knows who “Jim the Election Guy” is, but today, we’d like to introduce you to Jim the Actual Voter. Actually, we’d like to introduce you to three of them. All are named Jim, all actually live in the 6th Congressional District, and all are sick and tired of Michele Bachmann’s nonsense. See what they have to say about it:

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Tuesday August 24, 2010 · 1:02 PM PDT

2010/08/24 · 13:02

I'm Zach Rodvold, Campaign Manager for Tarryl Clark's campaign for Congress.

Today, Michele Bachmann is airing her first ad of the campaign season, and it’s no surprise she’s gone negative - distorting reality and calling names. Bachmann has no record of accomplishment to run on, so she’s resorting to more of the same recycled negative attacks – and putting $239,000 behind them this week alone.

If Michele Bachmann spent any time in her district, she would know that these are exactly the type of attacks that voters have had enough of. Instead, she’s traveled the country, skipping events in Minnesota to headline a rally in Dallas just this past Saturday.

While Bachmann travels the country, Tarryl Clark travels the district, attending over 30 community events in the past 30 days alone. Talking directly to people in the district, Tarryl hears time and again that voters are sick of Washington's - and Michele Bachmann's - ways.

Make no mistake, thanks to her special interest supporters and right wing activists across the country, Bachmann has big money. And they’re going to spend it running a campaign that’s straight out of the Karl Rove playbook.

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Friday August 20, 2010 · 8:29 AM PDT

2010/08/20 · 08:29

I'm Carrie Lucking, Communications Director for Tarryl Clark's campaign for Congress. Before I started working for Tarryl Clark, I was a proud, passionate, and effective high school teacher.

As you read this, Michele Bachmann is spending $80,000 on radio ads equating hard-working teachers to money launderers. In the ads, she calls the recently passed state aid bill that puts nearly 3,000 teachers back to work in Minnesota classrooms an "outlandish spending bill to pay off (Nancy Pelosi's) political friends just before the upcoming election" and says that teachers "in turn will work to reelect her liberal majority" which she calls "outrageous!"

I am outraged that Bachmann accused teachers of being "money launderers" on FOX news and on the airwaves across Minnesota - and so are my colleagues. See for yourself in our latest video:

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Wednesday August 18, 2010 · 7:30 AM PDT

2010/08/18 · 07:30

No Minnesotan will forget the day the I-35W Bridge collapsed. It was a tragedy that served as a wakeup call to us all about the state of our nation’s infrastructure, and it prompted an immediate review of all our state’s bridges.

One bridge, built similarly and with the same structural deficiencies, was located right in my hometown. St. Cloud’s Highway 23 bridge was single-span and its gusset plates were warped, just like the bridge in Minneapolis. The bridge was a real threat to the safety of our community. As a result, it was immediately shut down.

Yet despite this threat and the lessons that should have been learned from the I-35W Bridge collapse, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann refused to secure the funding needed to replace this bridge, a critical transportation artery in our community.

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Friday August 13, 2010 · 9:38 AM PDT

2010/08/13 · 09:38

This week, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of Social Security and the promise that after a lifetime of hard work, Americans and their families will not grow old in poverty.

When Social Security was signed into law during the Great Depression, economic instability was a part of everyday life, especially for seniors. Today, some retirees depend on Social Security as a supplemental source of income that helps them get by. For others, it is their only source of income.

We’ve been celebrating Social Security’s anniversary all week. In St. Cloud on Tuesday, Senator Amy Klobuchar and I met Charolette, who is 87. She told us that Social Security helps her get by, but she’s worried about the future. “You wonder about your kids,” she said. “Once I get upstairs, I can’t help them anymore.”

I’m committed to Charolette, and to her children and grandchildren. I will fight to protect Social Security. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, on the other hand, has said we need to be “weaned off” of Social Security. I think we should get what we pay for. We pay into Social Security so we have a stable retirement. We should be able to depend on that.

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