AMES, IOWA — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to speak first — before Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann — at the sold-out Lincoln Day Dinner in Waterloo, Iowa, Sunday evening, according to event organizers.

More than 250 people bought tickets to the dinner after Perry and Bachmann decided this week to attend, according to Judd Saul, spokesman for the Black Hawk County Republicans, the event’s host.

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