Kent Sorenson

Sorenson had helped manage Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s GOP presidential bid in Iowa before switching his support to Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Sorenson admitted that he had supported one campaign for the 2012 presidential election but from October to December 2011 he met and secretly negotiated with a second political campaign to switch his support for concealed payments totaling $73,000. Last October, Sorenson resigned his Senate District 13 seat in Madison and Warren counties just hours after a special prosecutor found probable cause that he violated Senate rules and may have committed the offense of felonious misconduct in office by knowingly making false statements to the Senate’s ethics panel.