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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBachmann’s Fundraising Whopper
http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann-fundraising-whopper-202734700.htmlIn several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased liberal judges redrew her congressional district in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama. The truth is that only two of the five judges were Democratic appointees, and Bachmanns Minnesota district has become even more Republican than it was before.
Its true that a bipartisan panel of judges redrew district lines and placed the town where Bachmann lives in an abutting district represented by a Democrat. But she has chosen to again run in the 6th District, the one she has represented since 2007. And she doesnt even have to move to do that.
Bachmann has sent out several appeals that carry the same message:
Bachmann email, May 11: A major development has just occurred in my race for the U.S. House of Representatives and Im asking for your immediate help
You see, in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama on the national stage, liberal judges have redrawn the lines of my Minnesota Congressional District to try and wipe me off of the political map once and for all.
Their bias was so obvious they even gerrymandered my home where my wonderful husband Marcus and I live - entirely out of my District and placed it into one held by a six-term Democrat incumbent!
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Does she even know what truth is?
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Bachmann’s Fundraising Whopper (Original Post)
geardaddy
May 2012
OP
if only the very very holy were not caught (so often) being such obvious liars
librechik
May 2012
#7
cindyperry2010
(846 posts)1. no
LNM
(1,081 posts)2. Well, she could run in the 4th where her house is.
Good luck against Betty, Michele.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)4. Betty would mop her up, no problem.
BumRushDaShow
(129,794 posts)3. And the sad part is
the loonies like her and West and Walsh got elected to office. And then Dems keep saying "well ignore them". Yet they are like deadly poison in Congress.
sarisataka
(18,857 posts)5. If we offer the Swiss
two first round picks will they take her still?
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)6. I wish.
That whole thing about her Swiss nationality is funny, because she was applying for dual citizenship for her two youngest children. Planning an escape Michele?
librechik
(30,678 posts)7. if only the very very holy were not caught (so often) being such obvious liars
it would be easier for me to respect them.