#10 Sarah Palin

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#9 Katherine Kersten

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For more about Katherine Kersten, go to the Cucking Stool blog.

#8 Andy Parrish

Andy Parrish, Bachmann's campaign wizard and purse-holder.

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#7 Luke Hellier

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Former Bachmann Field Staff & Political Director, now chief blogger at Minnesota Democrats Exposed Luke Hellier.

#6 Janet Boynes

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Janet Boynes is Michele Bachmann's creepy, ex-lesbian sidekick.

Truth Wins Out had a post about Boynes:

Boynes’ life story is the prototypical ex-gay example of an individual who is abused as a child, who falsely equates the abuse with sexual attraction (and temporary attraction with full-blown orientation), and who then egocentrically projects her own misdiagnosed and untreated emotional disorders upon anyone who was born or predisposed as an infant to full-blown same-sex orientation.

From humble beginnings as an Exodus ex-gay activist, Janet Boynes has evolved into a veteran supporter of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, one of America’s top theocrats. Bachmann advocates fundamentalist Biblical control of the U.S. government generally, and imprisonment or execution of homosexuals in particular.

Since 2006, Boynes and Bachmann have piggybacked their rise to fame upon one another. Just as the Pope once sold indulgences to Europe’s finest in exchange for access to power, Boynes has exploited Bachmann for political support while Bachmann has exploited Boynes for local religious support and access to conservative African-Americans. Boynes has also used the Christian Right’s “Ex-Gay Educators Caucus” to demand that the National Education Association and nation’s teachers teach discredited ex-gay myths to public-school students.

As Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays has fallen into disrepute in recent years, Boynes has sought to replace PFOX’s presence in public schools with her own.

Since last year, Boynes has periodically shared Bachmann’s soapbox with Christian rocker Bradlee Dean, another Bachmann sidekick...

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Here's the gruesome threesome pictured in a display at the 2006 convention in Blaine.

#5 "Bobby Thompson"

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From Karl Bremer's post about Bachmann's pal who goes by the name "Bobby Thompson":

“Thompson’s” $10,000 donation to Bachmann’s congressional campaign, which was shared with the Republican Party of Minnesota, would have qualified him for a table for 10 at the fundraiser, as well as a photo shoot with the two Tea Party queens. However, Bachmann’s campaign has refused to confirm or deny whether “Thompson” actually attended her big-buck affair.
After considerable negative publicity over her connection to the alleged fraudster, Bachmann’s campaign reportedly gave her $4,800 portion of the proceeds to other veterans’ groups. The Republican Party of Minnesota claimed it was going to donate its remaining portion of the dirty money to charity as well.

“Thompson,” a former Florida resident, for unknown reasons took a shine to Minnesota Republican politicians and the Republican Party of Minnesota. Besides the $10,000 he gave to Bachmann, he made the following donations to other Minnesota Republicans and GOP entities:

• $21,500 to Republican Norm Coleman’s Senate re-election campaign from 2006-2008
• $7,000 to the Minnesota House Republican Campaign Committee in 2008-2009
• $10,400 to the Republican Party of Minnesota from 2008-2010
• $500 to former Rep. Marty Seifert’s Seifert for Governor Campaign in 2009
• $500 to Republican David J. Carlson’s Citizens for David Carlson committee in House District 67B in 2008.

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# 4 Frank Vennes Jr.

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Here's a good summary of Bachmann's connection to convicted felon Frank Vennes Jr. by Karl Bremer:

In 2008, it was revealed that Bachmann had received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Frank Vennes Jr. and his family. Vennes is a convicted money-launderer/cocaine runner/gun runner for whom Bachmann had requested a presidential pardon in 2007.

When Vennes became implicated—but never charged—in the Tom Petters multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme in 2008, it didn’t take long for Bachmann to abandon her principled “innocent until proven guilty” stance. She quickly rescinded her pardon request for her close personal friend, and then tried to further save face by giving away a portion of the money she had taken from Vennes and family—although it was only $9,200 of the $27,400 she had hauled in from the Vennes family from 2005-2008.

Bachmann first tried to give the money to Minnesota Teen Challenge, a favorite evangelical charity of Bachmann’s that once had very close ties to Vennes. He is a former board member of the organization. However, Minnesota Teen Challenge allegedly lost $5.7 million in investments in Petters companies that were made through one of Vennes’ companies.

Rich Scherber, executive director of Minnesota Teen Challenge, said his organization sent Bachmann’s $9,200 check back without even cashing it.

“We didn’t want to be involved if it was dirty money,” Scherber said at the time.

Bachmann eventually found a willing taker for her tainted Vennes money when she donated it to R3, a collaborative of Christian recovery groups that happens to include Minnesota Teen Challenge.