bachmannhardball1Why 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.

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