William A. Cooper, the chairman and chief executive of TCF Financial Corp., makes a cameo appearance in this week's New Yorker
When Cooper became chairman of the Minnesota Republican party in the early 1990s, Ryan Lizza writes, the
This was fortuitous for the staunchly conservative Bachmann; she "was getting interested in politics just as her party was getting interested in people like her," and eventually defeated Laidig in the primary run for his seat.