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April 27, 2009
Special Edition: Bachmann Blast
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Dear Friend:
It's called www.bachmannwatch.com.
It's the Democrat [sic] Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) latest attempt to discredit every word out of my mouth and to paint anyone who disagrees with the liberal agenda sweeping through Washington as an extremist.
If you get a chance, check it out. It's incredible how fast and loose they are willing to play with the truth. We thought we saw the height of their spin machine last October, but, really, it looks like this is just the beginning.
Take for example their leading hit against me on the cap-and-trade energy tax.
No matter how you slice it, cap-and-tax will destroy the American economy starting with the manufacturing sector; will increase the costs of everything produced with energy (and that means everything), and hit families across the nation with thousands of dollars more to pay in their annual electric bills. A study by the House Ways and
Means Committee puts the figure for Minnesota families of four at about $2500 more. An MIT study put the figure closer to $3100 more.
The author of the MIT study disputes this, putting the number at about one quarter this.
Now, Democrats clung to a statement by the MIT Professor John Reilly
who took issue with the Republican use of his analysis and they published it far and wide. By the time the Democrat spin machine was finished with spreading the Professor's critique, they'd done everything but rent time in Times Square to try to discredit the GOP use of the $3100-cost-increase.
But, the Democrats have pretty much ignored the recent retraction he made of his criticism. Just last week, Professor Reilly was reported as saying, "I made a boneheaded mistake in an excel spread sheet. I have sent a new letter to Republicans correcting my error."
Reilly's numbers still are way below the Republican estimate.
Notice how that's missing from the Democrats' Bachmann Watch?
Professor Reilly also goes on to say that the real cost to families is "the Republican estimate [$3128] plus the cost I estimate [$512]."
Nope, you won't find that on Bachmann Watch either. And, they spread the same misinformation in other posts on their site as well.
Now, it may just be a coincidence that my opponent from the 2008 election just made $250,000 in contributions to the DCCC - who knows? But, a quarter of a million will buy a lot more than one negative, mud-slinging, misinformed website. I need to be prepared for this being just the first hit of many.
Can you help me fight back?
I really could use your help to prove to the Democrats that it is not
extremist to:
Control Washington spending, putting taxpayers first.
Protect the dominance of the American dollar.
Demand that the Federal Reserve make its spending transparent to the taxpayers footing the bill.
Treat dangerous terrorist detainees as dangerous terrorists.
Defend the unborn from a culture of abortion-on-demand.
Ensure that parents have the right to determine if their teenagers can access the morning-after pill.
Call for Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano's resignation because she publishes are report that considers veterans a threat to security and labels pro-lifers, gunowners, and those who oppose amnesty for illegal immigration as "right-wing extremists."
Can you make a contribution to help me keep fighting for you? I WANT
TO HELP, MICHELE!
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help me too?
The Democrats are gunning for me because I refuse to shrink from a fight. With your help, I can keep fighting for your freedom, for your pocketbook, and for all that the Constitution has secured for the American people for generations.
Thank you for your generous support and your prayers.
Sincerely,
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
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