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Bachmann skipping Iowa dinner because of House votes
Posted by: under 2012 Presidential election, 6th District Updated: May 26, 2011 - 4:12 PM
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will not travel to Iowa tonight for a Republican county fundraising dinner, as a vote on the Patriot Act in the House Thursday evening made Bachmann cancel her plans.
Bachmann was supposed to appear in Des Moines at a Polk County Republican dinner, where it had been rumored at one point she would announce she was running for president. While Bachmann shot down that notion, saying she will make a presidential announcement in June, the late Thursday vote is still disrupting the first leg of her plans this weekend in the Hawkeye State.
Bachmann spokesman Doug Sachtleben said the Minnesota Republican will do a video question-and-answer session on Thursday evening and fly to Iowa on Friday.
The House was supposed to be done voting by 3 p.m., but a delay in the Senate over a vote on extending the Patriot Act orchestrated by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul pushed back the House calendar as well. The House schedule remained in flux most of Thursday — currently the GOP House leadership expects votes to conclude by 8 p.m. this evening.
The conundrum over going to Iowa versus missing a major vote is one that will likely continue for Bachmann should she make a White House bid. In the 2008 presidential election, the candidates in the Senate were missing around three-quarters of votes by fall 2007.
But only two potential candidates in 2012, Bachmann and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, are currently in Congress, giving them an extra burden that rivals like former Govs. Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman will not have.
The House members will also have to record votes on hot-button items like the GOP 2012 budget, where the governors can try to toe the line on controversial issues.
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