Bachmann has an ‘aggressive plan’ to get herself in the media
Thursday, April 02, 2009 at 7:09 am
Why is Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann all over the media? Because she wants to be. That’s according to Bachmann’s new media director, Dave Dziok. She has supersized her communications staff in order to put herself out there — and out there she’s been: In the last nine days, she’s done six national cable news appearances.
“We are in a great position to have a three-staff communications team in our office, which is rare for a freshman, but it’s an aggressive plan that the congresswoman wanted to pursue,” Dziok said in a radio interview earlier this year.
He said that Mary Vought, her former communications director, “was instrumental in getting the Congress member all this great media attention.”
Of Bachmann’s critics he said, “Everybody wants to bring up the couples of gaffes that have happened. But when it comes to the issues, I don’t think there’s a better communicator out there.”
“She’s got a lot of substance, and she knows what she’s talking about,” he said.
Related: Bachmann’s self-promotion unusual among Congress members
12 Comments
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 9:06 am
I bet everyone in her district is busting their buttons with pride.
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Perhaps some one should communicate with Mr. Dziok that the Honorable Ms. Bachman is not a freshman representative any more.
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 10:19 am
I must be nice to have the budget to hire extra staff for a reason that will not directly help her constituents in any way. Michelle Bachmann is interested in one thing only: herself. But I guess the people in her district don’t mind their money spent on her increasing staff and her continued embarrassing presence in front of any camera or behind any microphone. At least it isn’t being spent on welfare mothers or health care for gay partners.
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 11:23 am
She’ll always be a freshman. When you flunk, they hold you back for another year.
The words “honorable” and “Michele Bachmann” don’t belong together.
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
Meanwhile, Bachmann has not held a single public meeting in her district since being elected. Not one. She does not respond to communications with her office–email, phone calls, letters. And she has done absolutely nothing for this district other than make it the laughingstock of the nation. What constituent services have been zeroed out to pay for Bachmann’s “supersized” communications staff anyway? They certainly aren’t communicating with constituents. Unless the most pressing issue in the 6th CD is a “one-world currency.”
Comment posted April 3, 2009 @ 4:26 am
The extremely fundamentalist and Catholic voters in her district – particularly those in its northwestern half – have made the decision to hold America hostage to their one single issue of abortion. Our American Taliban
really do not care what happens to our country It is just too hard to think of more than one issue at a time.
The leaders of the fundamentalist Political Protestants never considered the issue important until they realized it could lead to political power and access to our tax dollars.
The administration of the Catholic Church did not take the issue into the public arena until they saw the faithful finally rebel against “the great unspoken” – their priests’ abuse of their children. They needed to rally the faithful over something, and abortion got them back to the emotional territory that they have been comfortably manipulating for centuries.
Keep dumbing down our schools, and watch lots of television. This is what we get.
Comment posted April 3, 2009 @ 10:07 am
@ Dave Porter:
I hate to ruin the flow of your narrative, but the Catholic Church has been publicly fighting against women’s rights to bodily sovreignty since way before the priest sexual abuse scandals broke. Humanae Vitae, the Papal Encyclical opposing abortion and birth control, was issued in 1968. The Church has been active in opposition to abortion in the US since it became a national issue with the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. The issue became particularly salient in the culture wars of the 1990s. The priest child abuse scandals only became national news in around 2001. They’re actually fairly consistent. I agree though, that anyone who is focused enough on one issue to miss the fact that Michele Bachmann is certifiable, probably has a problem.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:14 pm
I’m from Australia, and we get news about Michele Bachmann over here. Thank God Obama’s the President of the United States, or all of your allies would be concerned-to-mortified regarding American democracy (the Bush years, by the way, were tough on us, too).
She really is a Grade-A barrell of monkeys. In my country, the expression we use is that’s she’s got “a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock”. Except with her it’s like “she’s got a mammalian plague covering every inch of arable land”. Um, one world currency? Flying imams? Armed revolution? All she needs now is the Napoleon costume…
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
Hey, there are people in the country who will buy the Joe the Flummer thing…why not people who will buy Bachmann the uh…let’s see..the uh…well, anyway..just sayin…Bachmann will write a book with Ann Coulter. In fact, they might get married.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 12:19 am
What a bunch of talk.I live in her district and know for a fact that she has hosted meetings.If you would like to prove yourself wrong,go to the web site for mn Senate district 56.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 6:41 am
Hmmm. She is a Sarah Palin wannabe. The height of ambition. Minnesotans should be proud.
Comment posted April 30, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
I am in her district and I am completely embarrassed by everything that comes out of her mouth. I wish she would go away or better yet, go represent a district in Wisconsin.
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