A special investigator appointed by the chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court will probe the evidence in two ethics charges filed against Senator Kent Sorenson. The bipartisan Iowa Senate Ethics Committee decided in a 4-2 vote to move the investigation forward. This is the first time in 15 years that an ethics complaint has [...]
State Senator Kent Sorenson released a slew of documentation he says supports his claim of innocence regarding ethics charges filed against him by a former colleague on the Michele Bachmann presidential campaign. The Iowa Senate Ethics Committee is scheduled to meet this afternoon at 1 pm to discuss the charges. Former Bachmann campaign staffer Peter [...]
Former Michele Bachmann chief of staff and campaign leader Andy Parrish sent an affidavit to the Iowa Senate on Monday, detailing how the campaign allegedly arranged payments to Kent Sorenson. The state senator from Milo served as the Iowa chairman for Bachmann’s presidential campaign. Fellow Bachmann staffer Peter Waldron alleges, in a complaint filed with [...]
Andy Parrish (left) joins Michele Bachmann onstage to celebrate her November 2010 congressional victory. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s former Chief of Staff Andy Parrish is the previously confidential “Witness A” referred to in an ethics complaint filed against Iowa Senator Kent Sorenson (R-Milo). Parrish plans to reveal his knowledge and documentation of the payment arrangements between [...]
A senate ethics complaint against Iowa Senator Kent Sorenson (R-Milo) gained new traction Tuesday when a previously confidential witness agreed to come forward. This person claims to have written evidence and first-hand knowledge of alleged improprieties by Sorenson, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and other leaders of her 2012 presidential campaign. Peter Waldron, a former Bachmann campaign [...]
Iowa Democrats are hoping to convince former state Sen. Staci Appel to run against Congressman Tom Latham in 2014. Appel, who is the wife of an Iowa Supreme Court Justice, lost her re-election bid to state Sen. Kent Sorenson in 2010. In that race Sorenson crushed Appel 57 percent to 40 percent despite Appel running [...]
There are now five different investigations or legal proceedings looking into Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson (R-Milo), his compensation for serving as the state chairman for Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign and/or the alleged theft of a database of homeschoolers that was illegally used by the campaign. The Office of Congressional Ethics is the latest to [...]