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May 27th, 2010

Summary: An appeal by Aubrey Immelman to Minnesota 6th Congressional District constituents to fill out the online nominating petition that will help him gain ballot access as an independent candidate to challenge Rep. Michele Bachmann in the 2010 general election. … Please download, print, sign, and mail the petition to Immelman for Congress, P.O. Box 117, Sartell, MN 56377. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 27, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that Army chief of staff Gen. George Casey said the Pentagon was prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012.


May 23rd, 2010

Summary: Link to nominating petition to help Aubrey Immelman gain ballot access as an independent candidate to challenge Rep. Michele Bachmann in the 2010 general election. … Please download, print, sign, and mail to Immelman for Congress, P.O. Box 117, Sartell, MN 56377. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 23, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that a Katyusha rocket blasted Baghdad’s fortified government and military Green Zone compound overnight, killing a civilian working for the U.S. Department of Defense.


May 22nd, 2010

Summary: Please contact Aubrey Immelman at info@immelman.net for a copy of the nominating petition or download the printable (PDF) nominating petition at http://www.immelman.us/nominate/ and mail it to Immelman for Congress, P.O. Box 117, Sartell, MN 56377 as soon as possible, but no later than Friday, May 28, 2010. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 22, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that when former Vice President Dick Cheney in a speech on national security delivered May 21, 2009 lambasted the change in security policy under President Barack Obama, he was not attacking the Obama administration so much as the Bush administration itself — considering he was essentially repeating many of the same arguments he had made unsuccessfully within the Bush White House as policy decisions increasingly went the other way in President Bush’s second term.


May 12th, 2010

Summary: In anticipation of Saturday’s Minnesota fishing opener, Independence Party-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner has scheduled a 1:30 p.m. press conference for Wednesday, May 12 at Stop Light Bait, 45 8th Ave. SE, St. Cloud, just off Highway 10. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 12, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. Army Sgt. John M. Russell shot and killed five fellow soldiers at a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Iraq. Killed were Cmdr. Charles Keith Springle, 52, a Navy military psychologist from Beaufort, N.C.; Maj. Matthew Houseal, 54, an Army reservist and psychiatrist from Amarillo, Texas; Army Sgt. Christian E. Bueno-Galdos, 25, of Paterson, N.J.; Spc. Jacob D. Barton, 20, of Lenox, Mo.; and Pfc. Michael E. Yates Jr., 19, of Federalsburg, Md.


Apr 16th, 2010

Summary: Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public and tend to be Republican, white, male, and married, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 16, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that a Homeland Security Department intelligence estimate warned that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the U.S. economy and the election of the country’s first black president to recruit members and incite violence. He also reported on a pro-life public lecture by Stephanie Gray of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn.


Apr 14th, 2010

Summary: GOP activist Luke Hellier, in an apparent attempt to taint the reputation of Michele Bachmann’s Republican challenger, Aubrey Immelman, posted a misleading report on the “Minnesota Democrats Exposed” website. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 14, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that the three-judge panel in the Coleman v. Franken U.S. Senate recount trial issued its final judgment, ruling that Democrat Al Franken won the most votes in his 2008 Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman and is therefore entitled to an election certificate.


Apr 7th, 2010

Summary: Aubrey Immelman announces a second challenge to incumbent Rep. Michele Bachmann for her U.S. House of Representatives seat in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, on a platform of national security, law and order, fiscal responsibility, and opposition to political extremism. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 7, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that President Barack Obama had flown unannounced into Iraq and, cheered by U.S. troops, declared it’s time for Iraqis to “take responsibility for their country” after America’s commitment of six years and thousands of lives.


Feb 21st, 2010

Summary: Nancy Carver of Rice, Minn., has led by example by restoring her shoreline on Little Rock Lake to native flowers and grasses during the past two years. She is helping educate her neighbors on how to develop restoration plans for their shorelines. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on February 21, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that two of his student research associates in the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, Sarah Moore and Angela Rodgers, presented their research on “The Personality Profile of President Barack Obama: Leadership Implications” at the 6th annual Minnesota Private Colleges Scholars at the Capitol event, Feb. 19, 2009 in the State Capitol rotunda, St. Paul, Minn.


Dec 1st, 2009

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on December 1, 2008, Aubrey Immelman reported that a series of bombs had struck U.S. and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 33 people and wounding dozens, including four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi general; that Ivan Watson (an American reporter for National Public Radio) and three Iraqi colleagues escaped injury when a bomb attached to their car exploded as it was parked along a street in west Baghdad; and that South Korea had started withdrawing its troops from Iraq ahead of the Dec. 31, 2008 expiration of the U.N. mandate that authorized military operations in Iraq.


Nov 3rd, 2009

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on the 16th day of his write-in campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman reported that in the final week of the campaign he mounted a ground assault with an advertising blitz comprising ads in 25 newspapers across the district with a combined circulation of approximately 150,000.