Former Bachmann aide sues campaign, alleging theft

[Bjorn Against]

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa campaign aide for former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann sued the Minnesota congresswoman and her senior campaign aides on Monday, alleging an official stole a private email list and that she was blamed for its use.

The lawsuit filed by Barb Heki claims that Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman, state Sen. Kent Sorenson, took the list from Heki's private computer to promote Bachmann's candidacy among Christian home-school advocates before the Iowa caucuses. Heki was hired to coordinate home-school supporters for Bachmann's Iowa campaign.

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Heki, who lives in Johnston, claims in the lawsuit that Sorenson took a database from her private computer in November that contained names and contact information, including email addresses, of thousands of Iowa families who were part of the Iowa home-school network on whose board she served. Heki said she had told Sorenson months earlier that she would not provide the list to the campaign.

When an email from the campaign was sent to members of the network in November, Heki was named in media reports as providing the list. She was later removed from the boards of the Iowa network and a related national network of home-school advocates on which she served.

Read more: http://www.startribune.com/politics/164313836.html

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. If you sleep with pigs, expect to get muddy.

[Jessy169]

2. thousands of (Christian) Iowa families who were part of the Iowa home-school network

It is really scary to think that so many of these people are keeping their kids home, indoctrinating them, isolating them and providing what is most like a very poor education.

[PatrynXX]

3. I'd disagree here....

However.. looks like Bachman is at a lost for 2 of the 10 commandment do'h. that shalt not lie, or steal ....

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. That's the jack-pot of dumb-fuckery.

[snooper2]

5. The numbers are going down though---Think about how it was 100 years ago-

[12ZTR]

6. Hope..

Heki loses .That will teach her to be a Wingnut sympathizer.

[liberal N proud]

7. Theft of your dignity working with that scum

[Ian David]

8. As much as I despise Bachmann, I have doubts about this case.

It could just as easily be that she provided the list willingly, and then only claimed theft once there was a backlash.

[Mopar151]

9. Could be she's telling the truth

Sorenson's sense of entitlement may have prevailed over decency.

[Ian David]

10. I don't trust or respect either of them. n/t