This is Bizarre Even for Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann: the Deadbeat from Stillwater

The Deadbeat From Stillwater originally published in the Stillwater Gazzette March 3, 2003 To the Editor: When I think of State Sen. Michele Bachmann, hard-working aren't the first words that come to mind. Self-serving maybe, but not hard-working. Bachmann has the lightest workload of any state senator. Although she serves on only three committees, two of them meet at exactly the same time. That means Bachmann only attends a maximum of four committee meetings a week. The rest of her colleagues' calendars, with the exception of two in leadership positions, are filled with anywhere from six to 11 committee meetings a week. According to the Secretary of the Senate's office, senators are "strongly discouraged" from requesting assignments to committees with conflicting schedules. An aide in Bachmann's office says she often attends committee meetings in lieu of the senator. Is this the kind of representation Washington County voters elected in November? When Bachmann's not skipping committee meetings, she's promoting herself with meaningless resolutions-six of them already this session, dealing with such matters as a missile defense system and the federal estate tax. Bachmann is well-versed in the art of authoring these self-serving public relations gimmicks. In her first two years in office, she authored 21 of them-10 percent of all the resolutions proposed by the entire 67-member Senate during that period. When you add up the cost of drafting, printing, voting on and recording these resolutions, the cost to taxpayers for promoting Michele Bachmann starts to look like real money. When Michele Bachmann's lease is up in four years-after all, she says she's just renting the office-the voters of Senate District 52 should evict this deadbeat tenant and elect someone who at least pays the rent. Karl Bremer It seems like she continues to pull the same stunts in congress.

Michele Bachmann Hosts Fundraiser for Anti-Gay Minnesota Family Institute

The Minnesota Family Institute (MFI) is delighted to invite you and a guest to a breakfast reception with Cong. Michele Bachmann. (Co-hosted by Dirk Bak and Dr. R. Chris Barden.) Like you, Cong. Bachmann understands the reason our government is out of control - with government takeover of healthcare, trillion dollar deficits, a radical social agenda and skyrocketing debt - is because most of the elected officials, and the people that elect them, don't think and act with a biblical worldview. That's why she wants you to support Mobilize 2010, our aggressive plan to tear down the strongholds that prevent people of faith from engaging in the public square with a biblical worldview and mobilize them to make a difference in the 2010 election. Join Cong. Michele Bachmann to learn how MFI is uniquely positioned to accomplish this goal, with our strong network of 1,500 churches across Minnesota and a grassroots database of over 250,000 social conservatives. Space is limited, so please RSVP with Chuck Darrell at your earliest convenience at 612-789-8811 ext. 226 or email chuck@mfc.org. Source: Facebook event calendar.

Does Anyone Have Ideas for this Unhappy Michele Bachmann Constituent?

This psycho sadly "represents" the area I live in. I get her hate mail addressed to me, my husband, and the former owners (who moved nearly 3 years ago). I have repeatedly asked them NOT to send me their crap. Does anyone know how to get them to stop sending me this crap! Please email me directly if you know how. I can't find a "contact us" link or I'd do that instead. I replied suggesting that she contact Michele Bachmann's office. As you see that didn't do any good. thanks for your reply. Maybe you could post my reply somewhere and I might get some answers. I have emailed, called, written and faxed her offices in Woodbury and DC, asking to be taken off the mailing list. Nothing works. Someone might have an answer though if my comment is posted. Does anyone have ideas about how to get off of Michele Bachmann's constant spam lists?

Bradlee Dean Promotes Michele Bachmann's Appearance at his Fundraiser on His Weekly Radio Show

Most of the rest of the show was devoted to drivel about the evils of the homos. See the previous Dump Bachmann post on Fellow Traveller Bradlee Dean and his "ministry" here. Andy Birkey has an excellently researched piece on this fundraiser at the Minnesota Independent here.

Michele Bachmann Votes for More Entitlement Spending

Bachmann panders to the rich elderly with her vote FOR HR3631 last week.. A vote for 3631 was a vote to keep wealthy Medicare recipients from having to pay an extra $10 a month. Tea Party Bachmann voted to tax the rest of us an extra $2.8 billion so that wealthy Medicare recipients won't have to pay and extra $10 a month. Taxed Enough Already? According to Bachmann we're not. Noted Economist Bruce Bartlett blogs: "In my Forbes column this week I criticize legislation that passed the House last week primarily designed to keep wealthy Medicare recipients--individuals with incomes over $85,000 and couples earning more than $170,000--from having to pay an extra $10 to $15 per month for their Part B premiums as required under current law. I single out House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer for praise because he was the only representative to speak on the floor against this unjustified give-away. I note that tea party heroes Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann were among those voting for this bill [emphasis mine]. Thanks to Diane Rogers for calling this bill to my attention and to the Committee for a Reponsible Federal Budget for being the only group to criticize it that I could find." Tarryl Clark needs to use this when she campaigns against Bachmann . . . we've got the highest foreclosure rate in the state and people losing jobs, and what does Bachmann vote for? Yup, protecting rich seniors from a $10 a month fee -- instead she prefers to tax the rest of us to pay for the rich senior entitlement. Anna I wonder what SCSU Economics Profession, and Michele Bachmann apologist, King Banaian has to say about this one.

Michele Bachmann Calendar Girl on Fox Dish With CJ

Michele Bachmann Claims "Sex Clinics" in the Public Schools Will Whisk Girls Away to Have Abortions

This gets on discussed on Countdown in the first segment. Commenter Lady sent a link to the transcript: But there's something that hasn't been talked about much, and it's the whole idea of school-based clinics in schools all across America. And that's in H.R. 3200. Now, this would raise the hackles on the necks of school parents all across this country when they understand section 2511 of H.R. 3200. The House government takeover of health care bill has a section called school-based health clinics. It would allow a nonprofit health agency--just say Planned Parenthood because that's what this is written for. Again, we need to be serious. Planned Parenthood is an organization that is the largest abortion provider in the United States. And written into this bill is a provision whereby Planned Parenthood could become the proprietor for school-based clinics in every school across the United States. These have been more accurately called school sex clinics. One of the very first school sex clinics that was put into this country was in St. Paul, Minnesota. And it was told to the families and the parents that this would actually reduce pregnancy. Of course we knew it wouldn't reduce pregnancy. It increased pregnancy. It increased sexually transmitted diseases. It was a disaster for young women in St. Paul public schools. The greatest, kindest, most compassionate gift we could give to our young people--whether it's young girls or young boys--is to teach them and tell them the travesty that they can encounter with early onset of sexual activity. It really is an epidemic now in this country. For so many girls across this country now, 25 percent of girls have sexually transmitted diseases, potentially life-threatening sexually transmitted diseases. Boys as well. This isn't the kind of country that we grew up in, but today where we have almost a patting on the back of telling young people, It's your choice; do whatever you want to do. Now the Federal Government is going the final step, and they're saying, Let's put sex clinics in our schools. Can you believe this, Mr. Speaker? Let's put sex clinics in our schools, and let's put Planned Parenthood in charge of these sex clinics, because the bill requires under this provision, Planned Parenthood would be authorized to serve as a sponsoring facility for the Nation's schools. As a matter of fact, the bulk of this health care bill is scheduled to go into effect in 2013. Remember, all the taxes will start this coming January, Mr. Speaker. Right away, at the time we can least afford it, the taxes will go into place, but the provisions of this bill actually go into effect in 2013. Not the school-based sex clinics. They would go into effect next summer so that these clinics would appear in public schools next fall, and it would require that the school-based sex clinic would provide on-site access during the school day when school is in session and have an established network of support and access to services with back-up health providers when the school is closed. Can you imagine what this would cost, Mr. Speaker, if every school in the United States had a built-in health clinic? And this health clinic, parents won't have access to. How do we know that? Parents are going to be excluded from Planned Parenthood as they write these clinics because the bill orders that these clinics protect patient privacy in student records. [Time: 18:45] What does that mean? It means that parents will never know what kind of counsel and treatment that their children are receiving. As a matter of fact, the bill goes on to say what's going to go on--comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to followup for specialty care. Is that abortion? Does that mean that someone's 13-year old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back, and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser. They don't know any different. As a matter of fact, the bill also provides for mental health planning. This is very concerning. In our State in Minnesota we've done a lot of research on this. Mental health; mental health assessments; crisis intervention; counseling; treatment; referral to a continuum of services, including emergency psychiatric care, and mom and dad can't know what's going on? Mr. Speaker, I am almost without words to think that we have come to the time when the Democrats that control Washington, D.C.--and, make no mistake, they control every level of power in this city. Now they want the taxpayers, if they haven't been beleaguered enough, to pay for sex clinics all across the United States. Planned Parenthood, which takes in a billion dollars a year, $300 million of which is taxpayer subsidies--hey, that was just the prologue. This is the gravy train. Because now it would be billions and billions and billions on into the future. What did the President say earlier this week or last week? He wants America's schools to have longer school days and longer school years. Where in the Constitution does it say that the President decides how long the school day is or how long the school year is? And now we're going to have the sex clinics in the schools and they're essentially going to take over the health care services of our kids? I don't know about you, Representative King, but this is highly offensive to me as a parent to think the audacity--the audacity of the President and of this Congress stepping into this area of privacy of family life. UPDATE: Politifact gives the claim that School Based Clinics provide abortions a "Pants on Fire" nomination. Huffington Post fact checks Michele Bachmann's speech.

Michele Bachmann Asks Fed Chairman Bernanke About ACORN

TPM: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) seems to be developing a one-track mind. At a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee, Bachmann asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke about...ACORN? To be fair, Bachmann also asked about one of her other pet issues, the threat of a one-world currency replacing the dollar -- which does actually bear a relationship to the questions of monetary policy. But here she has the man who runs our country's whole money supply, right in front of her and required to take her questions, and this is what she asks about? Listen to the video at TPM.

Michele Bachmann's Fellow Traveller Bradlee Dean on Abortion Syndicate Being "Mob Run" and Homosexuality

He also mentions Michele Bachmann. Michele Bachmann will be doing a fundraiser for Bradlee Dean's You Can Run But You Cannot Hide "ministry". From Daily Kos: Michele Bachmann is Keynote Speaker at Fundraiser for Bizarre "Punk" Ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide uses deception to gain access to public schools to preach an extreme form of right-wing Christianity: Other television news reports here and here. In 2006, Bachmann attended a fundraiser in Minneapolis for YCRBYCH and said this prayer for the ministry: Bradlee Dean was described in this Weekly Standard article as a "gold-plated conspiracy theorist who will readily hold forth on the mysterious plane crashes of Paul Wellstone and John Kennedy Jr., how Oswald didn't act alone, how O.J. Simpson might've been framed ("He's driving down the freeway, all of the sudden there's this helicopter on his truck--how convenient!"), and how the moon-landing was faked in a television studio...." This is the 2009 You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International "promotional video": To really get an idea how bizarre YCRBYCH is, you have to listen to these audio clips from his radio show on KKMS: In this audio clip, Bradlee Dean claims he and other "righteous men" are followed by helicopters: In this audio clip, Bradlee Dean talks about Bachmann's Bathroom-gate incident and talks about gays and why the U.S. is a Christian nation: In this audio clip, Bradley Dean has a conversation with a birther who says she knows of a U.S. Marine who told her her Marines are "duty-bound to take out the Supreme Court Justices and this President..." Bradlee Dean responds with "the resistance is building more and more": Listen to Bradlee Dean ranting about gays, environmentalists and the "Communist Manifesto": There are lots of videos about Bradlee Dean and his band Junkyard Prophet In this video, Bradlee Dean shows off his tattoos (tattoos are forbidden in the Bible))

Brian Falldin Gets Another Response to His Challenge to Michele Bachmann Supporters

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Michele Bachmann to Headline Fundraiser for Controversial and Deceptive Ministry

Andy Birkey has the story at Minnesota Independent. Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a fundraiser in November for controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCRBYCH). Based in Annandale, Minn., the group has made a name for itself as an anti-drug Christian punk rock band that organizes motivational student assemblies to bring Christ to public schools. But over the last several years, parents and school administrators have complained that the ministry misrepresents itself, claiming that the group is not transparent about its Christian mission. And since schools pay using public funds, some are concerned that the group is violating the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state. Read the whole thing.