DOH! ‘INTELLIGENT DESIGNER’ MISSPELLS BACHMANN’S NAME, PAC WHEN REGISTERING WITH FEC

Barry Arrington, a well-known “intelligent design” advocate and the treasurer for Michele Bachmann’s new money-vacuuming PAC, demonstrated his own intelligent design when he misspelled his candidate’s name and her new PAC in its Federal Election Commission “Statement of Organization” filing July 28.

Arrington, a Centennial, Colorado lawyer and former state legislator, registered “MichellePAC” with the FEC, listing only “PO Box 25” as an address and www.michellepac.net as a website. The sponsoring committee was listed as “Bachmann for Congress.”

By July 30, Arrington figured out how to spell his boss’s name and PAC and also found an address. He filed a new Statement of Organization for the cleverly acronymed “Many Individual Conservatives Helping Elect leaders Everywhere (MICHELEPAC)” at www.michelepac.org. The PAC’s sponsor is now listed as “Mrs. Michele Bachmann” at PO Box 25950, Woodbury, MN 55125.

Arrington also is a candidate for the Colorado Board of Education this year. According to the Colorado Statesman, a self-described nonpartisan political newspaper:

Arrington is the founder of the Jefferson Academy, a K-12 public charter school in the Jefferson County school system that is located in Broomfield. The school focuses on core knowledge and academic rigor. Arrington said his three children attended Jefferson Academy, although all eventually graduated from Wheat Ridge High School.

Arrington is a native of Texas. He holds a business degree from the University of Texas-Arlington and a law degree from the University of Texas law school. He was admitted to the Colorado Bar in 1987 and has been a CPA and an attorney, with his practice focused on business, non-profit law, contract law, school law, real estate and constitutional law, especially regarding the First Amendment. Arrington served in the Colorado House for one term, from 1997 to 1998, and was secretary/treasurer for the Independence Institute and a former member of its board of trustees. He also is a past president of the Rocky Mountain Family Council and the Colorado Coalition for Children and Families.

Arrington represented six of the families whose children were killed at Columbine High School.

Arrington is also known in intelligent design circles; he is a contributing writer and has been the Web master at Uncommon Descent, a blog that serves the intelligent design community. However, Arrington told The Colorado Statesman that intelligent design, which has been the subject of controversy in some school systems around the country, is not on his agenda and is a separate issue.

Arrington told The Statesman he is running for the state board of education because the board is an extraordinarily important body that influences educational decisions for a wide range of issues. “It’s important to have people on the board who believe in parents’ rights, educational choice and education reform,” Arrington said.

You might recall that Michele Bachmann resigned from the board of a Stillwater charter school after she and others were found trying to wedge their theocratic vision into its curriculum.

The domain names for both michellepac.org and michelepac.org are registered to Andrew Coelho:

Andrew G. Coelho is Vice President of SABER Communications, Inc. a campaign, political consulting, grass-roots organizing and direct response company located in Falmouth, Virginia.

© Copyright DumpBachmann