Bachmann is also fighting the troubling storyline, already gaining traction within the Iowa political class, that she has difficulty functioning outside a tightly controlled bubble of advisers and aggressive security personnel.
The class action, banging around Iowa state courts for six years, is one of the last suits remaining in Microsoft's long antitrust battles and is on the docket for November.
Today, we're going to continue the conversation that I'm having across Iowa and America about how we rebuild the road to a strong and prosperous middle class.