Bachmann's pardon request reversed

[Avidor]

Source: Saint Cloud Times

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann wrote a letter last year recommending a federal pardon for a major campaign contributor who was once convicted of felony money laundering, firearm and drug charges on the basis he had reformed.

This month, she withdrew that recommendation on behalf of Frank E. Vennes Jr., eight days after the FBI searched his Shorewood home and office and confiscated documents, money, art, coins and jewels that agents think may be related to a $3 billion investment fraud scheme in which Minnesota business mogul Tom Petters has been charged.

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“The media needs to do their job in vetting,” she said following a St. Cloud Rotary Club luncheon last week. “Those associations are certainly fair game and something the media brings up.”

Read more: http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081...

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Read more about Bachmann & Pardongate at the Dump Bachmann blog:

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/search?q=pardongate

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. It's the MEDIA'S FAULT?

oh, you stupid bimbo. What a pus filled wart on the anus of Washington DeeCee.

[Jackpine Radical]

18. OF COURSE IT'S THE MEDIA'S FAULT, YOU TWIT!!1!

Let me explain it to you in simple terms. No story, no problem. If people hadn't found out, there would have been no consequences for her. So how do you think people found out? You think maybe the Tooth Fairy told them?

[saltpoint]

2. This observer is disturbed by Bachmann's out-sized signature

on that letter.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Can we call that a sign of a sense of self-importance?

[saltpoint]

30. Sounds like a safe bet to me.

[proReality]

16. She has delusions of being John Hancock. n/t

[goclark]

27. That is a winner - John Hancock-

[saltpoint]

29. Clinically known as Signature Envy.

[Trajan]

3. This has been an extraordinary election cycle ....

It's like the Republicans have fallen into a pit of shit, and cant get up ....

They fret and flail, and all they do is fling shit everywhere ....

Wooo .... They stink ....

[tosh]

36. I will shamelessly admit that I have enjoyed watching the flailing & flinging...

from a safe distance.

[xchrom]

4. recommend

[Avidor]

5. See also Excellent Pardongate Coverage in the Minnesota Independent

http://tinyurl.com/4p8aph

http://tinyurl.com/3ufqj8

http://tinyurl.com/4cp6dp

http://tinyurl.com/6ddkst

[angstlessk]

6. okay, okay, okay..the one who thinks ALL ASSOCIATIONS are subject to scrutiny

thinks hers is less reflective of her than Obama's is with Bill Ayers? hers being the most recent and her plea for a pardon more personal?? are ALL republicans this stoopid...a rhetorical question, of course...all that is remaining of the republican party IS this stoopid..all that is LEFT of the republican party has jumped ship!

[Zambero]

7. Was Bachman's contributor a pro-American or anti-American money launderer?

The media should investigate this question right way!

[MNDemNY]

9. I'm not sure about that, but his drug dealing was only the pro american kind.

[dhpgetsit]

8. Funny how she jumps away when the spotlight shines on her.

[llmart]

10. Ewww.....

On the basis of that picture alone she needs to be gone.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Like a cockroach

[underpants]

11. The funniest part of this is that they used her as a mouthpiece becuase she was "safe"

Both sides have such Reps who are either untouchable or that run un-opposed but suddenly Bachmann ain't so safe

[Doctor_J]

12. "The media should vet each of my campaign contributors"

The GOP just keeps surprising me

[speedoo]

13. She's a disgrace. An appropriate poster woman for the Republican Party. nt

[berni_mccoy]

14. She's Toast.

[Hulk]

17. This is one dumb bitch!

If this is the only thing that loses this goof ball the election, it doesn't say much for the people of Minnesota in her district.

She is a total loon. Do they even know who she is or what she is involved in? Have they listened to her talk at all? I swear, this is a nation of morons...lead by the biggest morons.

[fed_up_mother]

19. The gift that keeps on giving!

[pleah]

20. K&R Michele "blame the media" Bachmann

is toast.

[DissedByBush]

21. Pay for pardons just doesn't phase me anymore

Bush I, Clinton, Bush Jr., everybody does it, and nobody ever gets busted for it. Show me an indictment and I'll get interested again.

[JohnWxy]

22. SHE'S A PERFECT REPUBLICAN - ABSOLUTELY UNSCRUPULOUS!!!!

"My No. 1 goal is to not go to jail." - Michele Bachmann

[Boudica the Lyoness]

23. The media's job is the report the news

not to make the news. She wants to media to investigate an awful lot doesn't she. I suppose investigate everything but her.

[JimDandy]

24. Hmmm... where have we seen such a lack of judgment and vetting lately?

And MN has been trusting her judgment to vote on bills that are good for it's people. Yikes!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

25. Time for Bachmann Turner

Outta Office. Done.

[Tutonic]

26. The RNC needs to find a way to bottle the ignorance of these

women Palin, Bachman, Wilson, Musgrave, etc., and sell it to their base. They'd guarantee that they would repopulate the party with a whole new generation of big chested teeny brained women.

[Joanne98]

28. Oh she's soooo screwed. We need an ethics hearing!

[nikto]

32. She is sooooo toast

Even DIEBOLD can't save her now.


Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!

[saltpoint]

33. A case of holding Congressional Representatives responsible for what they

say and do.

What a concept.

Them tubes people sure move fast, don't they.

[StrictlyRockers]

34. The rethuglicans just can't seem to figure out those newfangled interwebs.

Bachmann is so done. Good riddance!

[samsingh]

35. i've studied handwriting analysis and she is an awful and

dangerous person. she also has a tendency to hide facts, she's not a deep thinker, overheighted sense of self - like a fascist, and emotionally bankrupt.

yuck.

[clixtox]

37. Everybody reading about her on DU could see those obvious flaws...

What does her signature tell you?