Minnesota GOPer: God Called Me To Run For Governor — And To Raise A Miraculous Amount Of Money

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Check out this declaration from Minnesota state Sen. Mike Jungbauer, who is now running for the Republican nomination for Governor: That God called him to run — and he’s setting out to achieve a literally miraculous level of fundraising.

Here’s what he told a local newspaper:

An evangelical Christian with a degree from the Moody Bible Institute, Jungbauer purposefully set his campaign fund-raising goal in excess of that suggested by experts as a kind of verification he was following the right path.

“I believe if I’m really called by God to do this, and again it’s not necessarily called by God to be the governor, but to do the campaign, to do it right, I set the goal quite high when I would have to believe it was truly miraculous (to achieve), and I couldn’t say I did it, or they (the campaign) did it,” said Jungbauer.

So God has called Jungbauer to run for governor, and to raise a lot of money — but not necessarily to win and be governor? Talk about mysterious ways.

And yes, Jungbauer’s state legislative district is inside Michele Bachmann’s Congressional district.

(Via Minnesota Independent.)

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