Iowa state chairman stuns Michele Bachmann with switch to Ron Paul’s camp
2012 Elections, Breaking News, Headlines Thursday, December 29th, 2011
By JASON NOBLE and MARY STEGMEIR, DES MOINES REGISTER
In a stunning, late-breaking Iowa caucus turnabout, the state chairman for presidential candidate Michele Bachmann ditched her campaign Wednesday night to endorse Ron Paul, a rival in the race for the GOP nomination.
The defection of Kent Sorenson, an Iowa state senator, came just six days before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, and caught the Bachmann campaign by surprise. Sorenson had chaired Bachmann’s caucus efforts here for months, and even attended a Bachmann event in Indianola on Wednesday afternoon just hours before appearing at a Paul rally in Des Moines to announce his endorsement.
“I believe we’re at a turning point in this campaign,” Sorenson said in his announcement at the Paul rally “… 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, an Indianola Republican, was elected to the state Senate in 2010 with support from Paul and his legion of Iowa backers. His announcement was greeted with sustained applause from a crowd of roughly 500.
Many rose to their feet and hoisted Paul campaign signs above their heads when Sorenson added: “We’re going to take Ron Paul all the way to the White House.”
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Senator Sorenson,
Thank you for joining “we the people” in support of Dr. Ron Paul – the only voice of our Constitution.
Sorenson’s 5 minutes of fame.
Et tu brute!
I hope he is home soon.
Michele, shake this dust off your feet, and Thank GOD that he came out of the closet now!
Harvey,
You mean you are telling Turncoat Bachmann, now a present day racist wanting to commit genocide on the brown people, to dust her feet off and finally go back home to where she is better as an I.R.S. attorney than she is going for a position far out of her classification like the presidency of the United States of America?
Yours,
Rhonda
December 29, 2012/Thursday
After watching the CNN interview w/ Mr. Sorenson, I’m inclined to believe that he’s a person of good will who wants to do right. Clearly, Sorenson has seen enough of Bachmann’s inconsistency, and enough writing on the wall tactically, to follow his conscience into the Paul camp. He’s one of many, in good company, and good for him.