Sarah Palin team reaching out to Iowa activists for meetings
On Tuesday Palin will be in Iowa for the screening of a documentary about her.
Sarah Palin's camp is reaching out to activists and operatives in Iowa about setting up meetings while she's in the state Tuesday for the screening of a documentary about her including with Chuck Laudner, a former Iowa GOP executive director and prominent conservative.
Laudner confirmed to POLITICO he'd gotten a call from a Palin backer either Friday or during the weekend asking about meeting with him while she's in Pella for the screening of "The Undefeated." Laudner later clarified that Palin's team was talking about a group of people attending a post-film mingling session, and not one-on-one get-togethers. He said they reached out to tell him he was on the list for that.
"They said I was on the list" for people she wanted to get together with, said Laudner, who has ties to staunch conservative Iowa Rep. Steve King, who in Congress has formed an alliance with Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Laudner sounded skeptical about whether Palin is serious, or, as he said, "dancing around."
"I'd be interested to see if she's serious about a run," he said. "That'd be (question) A; and B, would it be too late? That's what it feels like, anyway. It's not too late now, (but if you) dance around until fall," it will be.
Nonetheless, he said, many conservatives are waiting to see what happens with Palin and Rick Perry, he said discounting Tim Pawlenty as a "dead stick" and Herman Cain and Rick Santorum as "cruising along." He did not mention Newt Gingrich.
As for Bachmann, he said she's been a big beneficiary of good timing, with the Des Moines Register poll bracketing her kickoff.
That said, he added, expectations have now been raised for her, "and you almost have to be perfect from here to the straw poll."
Palin, who has repeatedly used social media to call out the press on specific stories, used her Twitter feed to rap POLITICO for the original item, which was based on the interview with Laudner and his comments about meeting her.
"*sigh* media making things up again," she wrote on her Twitter feed after 4 p.m.
Poster Comment:
I thought the Wasilla Hillbilly said she had to be back in Alaska for "jury duty". Just another Palin lie, I guess.