Rep. Michele Bachmann’s latest campaign tv ad, “Bachmann: A Lobbyist’s Worst Nightmare”, depicts the Republican congresswoman as someone who can’t be bought by lobbyists. The ad features a lobbyist frustrated by his failure to “get some political pork from Michele Bachmann.” Alas, the lobbyist laments, “Every day, Michele says no, no, no. I once again, I watch my dreams of lobbyists’ gold disappear, as Michele tells me she’s just looking out for Minnesota families.”

But that hasn’t stopped the 6th District Republican from putting the “for sale” sign outside her office and raking in $843,079 from political action committees through Oct. 15 in this election cycle—at least $182,255 of which came from lobbyists, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Bachmann sits on the House Financial Services Committee, and the bulk of her corporate PAC money comes from — you guessed it — the financial industry. And while she voted against the Wall Street bailout, as her new ad notes, she has blamed the financial crisis on “hyper-regulation” of the financial industry (as well as poor people) and pledged to release the shackles of federal regulation from them. As part of her solution for getting money back into the system, Bachmann has called for eliminating the capital gains tax, which would benefit chiefly investors in stocks, bonds and real estate.

Listed among Bachmann’s financial services contributors in this election cycle, which doesn’t include the boatloads of money she’s received from individual contributors from the financial sector, are:

 

  • American Bankers Association, $7,000
  • ACA International, which represents repo men third-party debt collectors, $10,000
  • American Express, $3,000
  • American Financial Services Association, $2,000
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, $13,000
  • Bank of America, $7,000
  • Capital One Financial, $2,000
  • Charles Schwab, $3,000
  • Citigroup, $2,000
  • Community Financial Services Association of America, $3,000
  • Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, $5,500
  • Countrywide Financial, $2,000
  • Freddie Mac, $2,500
  • Fannie Mae, $4,000
  • Financial Services Roundtable, $3,000
  • Financial Services Institute, $1,000
  • Genworth Financial, $2,000
  • Hartford Financial Services, $5,500
  • Independent Community Bankers of America, $4,000
  • Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, $9,000
  • Investment Company Institute, $3,000
  • J.P. Morgan Chase $ Co., $3,000
  • KPMG, $11,500
  • Merrill Lynch, $3,000
  • National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, $4,000
  • National Association of Health Underwriters, $4,500
  • National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors, $4,000
  • National Association of Mortgage Brokers, $2,000
  • National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, $3,000
  • National Association of Realtors, $2,000
  • National Multihousing Council, $3,000
  • National Venture Capital Association, $4,250
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers, $10,000
  • Property Casualty Insurers Corp., $6,000
  • TCF Financial, $10,000
  • Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, $2,000
  • Travelers Co., $5,000
  • Tudor Investment, $4,600
  • U.S. Bancorp, $1,000
  • United Health Group, $2,000
  • Wells Fargo, $1,500
  • Zurich Holding Co., $2,50

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