The Iowa Republican has obtained an email sent to members of the Network Of Iowa Christian Home Educators (NICHE) that says the Bachmann campaign uploaded the group’s email list into their campaign database without permission.
Barb Heki, a NICHE board member is a paid employee of Bachmann’s Iowa campaign.
Below is an excerpt from the email, which was sent out by NICHE president Justin LaVan.
“I want to apologize on behalf of the NICHE Board and advise you that we discovered that our list of homeschool contacts was uploaded without our knowledge or permission by the Michele Bachmann Campaign and used twice for e-mails from her campaign. We have been assured by the Bachmann Campaign that it was inadvertent. Due to safeguards built into our contact list, we immediately recognized the use. That same day NICHE contacted the Bachmann Campaign and instructed them to cease any further use of the NICHE list, to which they immediately took the necessary corrective actions to correct the situation. By the next day, the Bachmann Campaign was able to find that portion of their database that contained the NICHE list, and we have received written assurance that our contact list was completely deleted.”
