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Subscribe to RSSMinnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign lost another high-ranking staff member on Thursday after that staffer defended another former Bachmann official's defection to a rival campaign.
Wes Enos, Bachmann's political director, has left the campaign, spokeswoman Alice Stewart confirmed to NBC News on Thursday evening.
The resignation comes on the heels of last night's announcement by Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson, who had served as Bachmann's Iowa chairman, that he had stepped down from that position to support Texas Rep. Ron Paul's campaign instead.
Yesterday, Enos publicly defended Sorenson, an Iowa state Senator, against charges voiced by Bachmann that Sorenson had accepted money from the Paul campaign, in violation of state law. (This narrative is disputed by Sorenson himself.)
"I can't in good conscious watch a good man like Kent Sorenson be attacked as a sell-out," Enos told NBC News on Wednesday night, insisting that Sorenson felt personal loyalty to colleagues in the state legislature backing Paul.
A similar statement from Enos was released via the Ron Paul campaign shortly after midnight today.
Reached via text message today, Enos told NBC News, of his departure from the Bachmann campaign: "It was a mutual thing. I knew when I undermined [Bachmann's] statement last night that I effectively was tendering my resignation."
Enos adds he has no "ill will" toward Bachmann.
That hasn't stalled the emerging feud between the Bachmann and Paul campaigns.
Bachmann re-iterated her charge against Sorenson at a campaign stop on Thursday, saying that Sorenson had told her he had been "offered a great deal of money" to support Ron Paul, but had given her campaign assurances he would stay.
"He said that he would be staying. He was with me at our campaign stop in Indianola," Bachmann said.
Sorenson joined Bachmann at a Pizza Ranch in Indianola yesterday, where he spoke with voters as he stood by Bachmann's side. Later, he declined to speak on her behalf, citing dental work he had received earlier in the day.
“I’m numb, so I’m afraid I’ll start drooling," Sorenson told the crowd, to laughs.
Today, Bachmann told reporters that, "He told all of our campaign that he was definitely on board and then he got in his car and he went and announced that he was going with the Ron Paul campaign."
The visit to the Indianola event followed a discussion over the phone Tuesday, Bachmann said, in which Sorenson told her he had been offered a "great deal of money" to defect to the Paul campaign.
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At this rate, the wild eyed (*) (*) MN dingbat's staff is disappearing, there will be no one left by Tuesday...
Fleas typically leave the 'host' once it's dead!
The worst part is, Marcus's ambitions to be First Lady appear to have been dashed!
*popcorn* for everyone!!!
Yup--more rats deserting the sinking ship! Yee Haw!....and then there were none! I'll join you with the popcorn, Feisty! Let the feast begin!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
I wonder what it is about Ron Paul that he is attracting staffers from other campaigns.
Would like to be a fly on the wall in the Bachmann campaign office right about now lol.
Every time i hear the song" Dancing Queen" by Abba i think of him !
Did you know Diet Coke burns when it goes through your nose? lmao!
Thanks to the photo of Marcus going down on a corn dog, I still can't look at one without breaking into hysterical laughter!
In case anyone missed it, it's a CLASSIC;
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://babyboomeradvisorclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Marcus%2520Bachmann%2520Eating%2520a%2520Corn%2520Dog%2520in%2520Iowa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://babyboomeradvisorclub.com/2011/08/14/how-to-eat-a-corn-dog-by-michelle-bachmann-and-marcus-bachmann/&h=420&w=205&sz=32&tbnid=Pa2qaQubLqCz_M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=44&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmarcus%2Bbachmann%2Bcorn%2Bdog%2Bphoto%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=marcus+bachmann+corn+dog+photo&docid=xDB2Z74vHBARaM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OPj8TvDKIOixsALm0ui2AQ&ved=0CCEQ9QEwAA
Its 'cuz Ron Paul is the man and everyone should know it.
ROMNEY'S "Business experience" consisted of buying companies, laying off workers, stripping pension funds, and taking the companies public again - 80% of which shortly went bankrupt.
http://
THE STORY OF TWO MEN TRAPPED IN ONE BODY
watch?v=K9njHHyRI7g&feature=youtu.be www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/136223013.html
THE STORY OF TWO MEN TRAPPED IN ONE BODY
watch?v=K9njHHyRI7g&feature=youtu.be
Hey Feisty: Mr. Bachmann also tried to bolt, but Ron Paul pulled a Bruno on him and shooed him away.
Boy, let a lady take a nap and look what you kids started. A fight between the nutty lady from MN & his wife, and the old "talking to clouds" guy from Texas. Makes me afraid to sleep tonight to see what mischief you will get into!
You're killing me Red!
Can you picture Marcus in a speedo with his bunny slippers running down the hotel hallway? lol
@phine - Hope you had a nice nippy nap!
Thanks Fiesty now I am fighting an urge to poke my own eyes out.
Here is a helpful hint forrest - bleach also works really well!
I wish YOU and Mrs. Grump and all of your Grumpette's a Happy, Healthy & Peaceful 2012!
I may never sleep again for fear of nightmares! LMAO (Need monitor cleanup)
Ha Thank you Fiesty and to you as well, and Happy Anniversary
Marcus in a speedo would look like a potato with a rubber band around it. There are some sizes that speedos and spandex should not be sold in.
Forrest,
Have you & Mrs. Grump been to a Disney water park lately? Some of the men that "strut their stuff" there are dressed exactly as you describe!! (And they are all over 70)
At seventy you should not be allowed to wear a speedo in public, nobody wants to see your "stuff" any more. When I was young and stood naked in front of Mrs. Grump I would get a naughty smile, now if I stand naked before her I get a hearty laugh! Actually I am in pretty good shape for my age, but not speedo shape, anything that tight might adversely affect my blood pressure! At a certain age people must wonder is that a speedo or is that poor old man wearing a diaper.
It staggers the imagination!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
We were once in one of those little beach buggy's you can rent on Daytona beach. Now, the guy warned us to watch in front - a lot of folks run into the back of the people in front. The hubby laughed, you are only going like 2 mph, how can you run into someone? Well, we drove by this man who must have been 70, wearing a bright red "pouch" and g-string. Almost caused a major accident!!!
PS He also had the largest beer belly this side of the Mississippi
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick: $17 Trillion US debt coming soon.
As long as it isn't wearing a red silk g-string with a beer belly..........
Give it a rest
Why don't you do as your "name" says, give it a rest and share a smile to celebrate the coming of a new year?
Marcus, in a speedo, chasin Ron Paul down a hallway? ROTFLMSAO!!!!!!
With the good Dr pointing back at Marcus yelling QUEER! QUEER!....
With Michele waiting at the corner with a frying pan thinking "I'll show you, you stole everyone else, you are NOT taking my woman too"
Just too funny!!!!
Once, when my daughter & I were in Puerto Vallarta laying by the pool, this guy climbs out that was so hairy it would of qualified him as a human werewolf.
If that wasn't bad enough, he was wearing a unlined bright yellow speedo, which became transparent when it got wet!
We fell off our chaise loungers laughing so hard & then promptly puked! lol
I'm still traumatized from that site!!!
Now that's funny, Could have past for a Bigfoot with a Speedo ...... Happy New Year Feisty ............ :-)
Happy 2012 to you Rick!
Feisty, wishing everyone a peaceful new year? Are you staying off the computer starting January 1st?
These people want to run my country. All of them can not even run a campaign.
Obama 2012
Dont worry Obama just released your welfare check
Pete Odonez
Thanks. Now I can donate to the DNC in your name.
Have you guys seen Obamas first campaign ad for 2012?
Hard to say if it's more Michelle Bachmann imploding or Ron Paul continuing to gain momentum.
Bachmann should enjoy the experience and call it a day after Iowa.
Actually, it's Michele imploding, her chief of staff quits and joins Dr Paul, evidently because of lobbying from other Iowa legislators.
Michele accuses Dr Paul of paying him off, sparking Enos, to come to the defense of the chief of staff, which Enos considers a resignation notice, (with good reason)
So, Enos goes and adds insult to insult and joins Dr Paul's staff.
So, as a result, Michele is pissed at Dr Paul? Not like he wasn't already leading in Iowa! (he didn't really need the help)
So she accuses them of illegal money transfers.....Claiming her now ex staff member told her what was happening?
So she is asking us to believe that one of her staffers was offered an illegal bribe and told her BEFORE he decided to take the bribe? He is either a prime candidate for a darwin award, or, it's a lie.
I think the latter is the truth....(it's a lie)
This is so rich... It's truly priceless... Popcorn hell, a tall strong whiskey, thank you! It's going to be a fun weekend...
You got THAT right!
I have never seen anything quite like it! lmao!
PS; *popcorn* goes well with Whiskey! ;o)
Popcorn goes with anything!
Lyn I live in Belton. I gave up drinking. BUT, the GOP is about to make me go off the wagon.
It is so much fun to watch.
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
Dive! Dive! Dive! (Married to Navy vet, ya know)
W2, Aw you sunk my Battleship!
Navy Rules!!!!
Off point. Best football game of the year to watch Mr. phinephancy go nuts? Navy vs. Notre Dame! (He loves Navy and is Irish Catholic)
Well then he can't lose!
One year, he ended up on the floor sitting behind his reliner! He just couldn't take the pressure! (This game requires much beer drinking for him to watch)
I am still LMAO Perry's date is Friday the 13th.
The scary part is that there are actually people who support someone with such a disconnect from reality...
The phrase is "in good conscience," not "good conscious."
She should pay her staff, that seems to be the reason why the people that have left did so, a couple of months ago staffers quit because they were not getting paid. I would be careful if I was Ron Paul I think little Michele could beat his old ass to death in a fistfight, and don't even get into a staring contest with her, you would need two glass eyes to win that contest. I'm starting to feel sorry for her, she is reminding me of that knight in the Monty Python movie who won't concede even after his arms and legs are cut off.
Forrest,
I love Monty Python - The Holy Grail
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
Mr. Bachmann could do serious damage with his evening purse to Dr. Paul.
We have rode our horses to see the king. Why you have no horses, you have two coconuts and you are banging them together.
This circus side show that the republican party has become is humorous to watch but very frightening when you think about all of their supporters running around without their straight jackets, minus any kind of psychiactric supervison, free to wreck havoc on the world. It truly scares me to think that there are that many clinically insane people in this country. I mean they were actually considering this insane woman for the President of the United States. Actually I kind of question Ron Paul's sanity now, these guys he just let into his organization were actually trying to get that ding bat bachman elected, that tells me they are completely insane, not a little insane, not temporarily insane, but full blown, all out, bat @!$%# crazy.
Doug,
The AMA is considering the advisability of putting Prozac in the drinking water at one of their rallies. Hope that eases some of your concerns. :)
Ron Paul real change!!! For a strong economy and sound money, Who would ever think that the central bank (called the fed ) that has no part of our government have so much power! We don't need the wars and we don't need a war with Iran this could bring WW3, with CHINA and RUSSIA backing Iran!
Or maybe if we go to war with Iran why cant china go to war with Taiwan ,or North koera invade the south and so on , If you what real forien policy look at it thru the eyes of the other country ,
America believes in GOD, America is NOT god, To bring rapture to the world at will
This is part of the circular firing squad that's the GnoP of today,Their aim is Obama in the middle but all they hit is each other.Candidates keep up the good work by Nov. Obama will have no one to run against.
What, Ron Paul's people are paying Michelle Bachman's people to join Paul's staff. Don't you love capitalism?
Never should have entered the race..But she had a following of Ditto Heads and Fox who pushed her..
Ms Bachmann should have left the race about two months ago. Her campaign is in a shambles, and it would be nothing but massive egoism to continue (and think that she syill has a chance).
Ron Paul 2012
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Ron Paul 2012 , last chance this nation has , whether the zionist neocons like it or not :)
Please spell "conscience" correctly (it is not the same as "conscious").
One of these christians is telling a bold face lie.
AS the Queen of the Teabaggers is slapped with reality, her base is proving to be just that, a loud and boisterous, out of touch fringe. America is not liberal, or conservative, It's moderate! And as soon as we get these extremist out of the way, the better. We need team work and compromise to promote the 'common good'; nothing less will get the job done. No more us against them,but in the spirit of 'WE'...
Finger pointing and blaming others is not the same as PROBLEM RESOLUTION! Obstruction is not the same as Construction. Putting political party before the welfare of the nation, is ASININE...least we forget;"Nero fiddled as Rome burned". "I hope he fails" is SELF-DEPRECATING stupidity.
Idj....I understand the power of "WE," but it is almost as if you are asking me to embrace a drooling idiot with a lot of suppurating boils all over her/his body being fed upon by lice and and bed bugs.
In a way, G.W.Bush (of past drooling significance) was sort of right to emphasize a form of nationalized education with 'no child left behind.' Unfortunately, he only was able to deal with children. Looks more like we have become a 'nation left behind.' There is no credible candidate to run against Obama; therefore, no pressure on Obama and team to try to do better.
You can tell that Kent Sorenson's switch to Ron Paul was not motivated by money just by watching his recent interviews.
com/2011/12/kent-sorenson-on-fox-cnn-discussing-his-switch-from-bachmann-to-paul-dec-29-2011/
You can also tell that Wes Enos was close to & knows Kent Sorenson well & that is why he was willing to back up Kent Sorenson against the vicious lies of Michelle Bachmann. Bachmann is showing that she is definitely not presidential material & this, in conjunction with the fact that Politifact has her as the only candidate that lies more than Gingrich, is the final nail in her campaign's coffin.
Ron Paul the man with a new plan go Ron paul 2012
"I can't in good conscious watch a good man like Kent Sorenson be attacked as a sell-out," Enos told NBC News on Wednesday night,
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"good conscious"? The writer needs to be fired, not to mention the editor.