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Everyone has an opinion about Rep. Michele Bachmann — whether tinted by contempt or admiration. But Maureen Reed, the Grant physician who hopes to unseat Bachmann, doesn’t even mention the two-term incumbent in explaining why she’s running for the Sixth Congressional District seat. In fact, the closest she comes to referencing the Republican is in hinting at her flamboyant personality.
“The problems that people have are not being effectively addressed,” Reed told MnIndy this morning. “Personalities aside, public servants should be there to solve real people’s real problems.”
Reed will seek endorsements from both the Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Independence parties. Last year Elwyn Tinklenberg was backed by both major parties but still fell short of unseating Bachmann.
In 2006 Reed was the Independence Party’s candidate for Lt. Governor. Tinklenberg is expected to make another bid for the seat in 2010.
Reed says she called the former Blaine mayor to let him know that she also intended to challenge Bachmann. “It was a very cordial conversation,” she says. “I have great respect for him and the energy that he has put into the Sixth District.”
Reed says she hasn’t decided whether she’ll run in a primary election if someone else gets the DFL endorsement. “That is so far in the future,” she says. Right now her focus is on meeting potential voters and raising money, she adds.
Reed’s resume includes eight years on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents. In addition she served as president of Aspen Medical Group and medical director at HealthPartners. Most recently she worked as the interim executive director of the Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota.
Reed says the primary issues of concern to Sixth District residents are jobs, health-care and homes.
“I came to the conclusion that I just can’t stand by anymore, that this district and the residents of the Sixth District have some really big problems to solve,” she says. “They’re only solvable when people roll up their sleeves together and prioritize and concentrate on what is wrong.”
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Comment posted May 7, 2009 @ 2:42 am
Oh brother. Talk about a rehash… “They’re only solvable when people roll up their sleeves together and prioritize and concentrate on what is wrong.” Please Ms. Reed, if you’re going to run, come up with something original. And I’d love to hear you expound on this statement “The problems that people have are not being effectively addressed,” Reed told MnIndy this morning. “Personalities aside, public servants should be there to solve real people’s real problems.”
Anyone can say anything they want, but they’d better have the ammo to back it up. So Ms. Reed, please tell me all about Cong. Barney Frank, D-MA and his felonous mishandling of the Finance Committee. Or Sen. Chris Dodd, D-CT and his disastrous leadership of the Banking committee. Congresswoman Bachmann’s record stands on it’s own. As reported here, she tried inserting language into a bill that would prevent groups such as ACORN from receiving taxpayer money if they have been indicted for voter fraud. “On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed an amendment Bachmann offered to the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, which would ban groups facing federal indictment for voter fraud from receiving federal foreclosure relief funds.”
http://minnesotaindependent.com/33804/acorn-bachmann-falsely-stated-acorn-faces-criminal-charges/comment-page-1#comment-30129
What was NOT reported here was Barney Frank D-MA pulled this language from the bill at the last moment. This tells me Frank endorses voter fraud.
Here’s a Congrssional media brief from Bachmanns office:
http://townhall.com/blog/g/fac0ed1f-6e97-4c80-a283-75cdacd0fbeb
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Chairman Frank Sides With ACORN
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 1:41 PM
Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee passed my ACORN amendment that will prevent organizations, or employees of organizations, that have been indicted for voter fraud from being eligible for the housing counseling grants and legal assistance grants authorized under the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act.
Chairman Barney Frank accepted the amendment right there in front of the whole committee — I assumed because it was his very own language as passed under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 — and the amendment was then passed by unanimous voice vote.
Later that day, Chairman Frank said he had reservations about my amendment and would discuss them with me. His staff approached mine with specific changes he would like to make — changes which eviscerate the meaning of the amendment and were clearly not acceptable. Again, this was puzzling given that it is identical to the language Chairman Frank included in HERA just last year.
Their changes include: Raising the bar from indictment to conviction to preclude an organization from getting taxpayer dollars, limiting the time the ban is in effect, and applying the standard to only senior employees. We’re talking about giving tax dollars to organizations that could be mixed up in criminal actions. Are we expected to keep forking over tax dollars to these organization when they’re under the cloud of suspicion of a public criminal indictment?
Who’s side are we on: The taxpayer or ACORN’s?
If nothing else, this shows us just how much influence ACORN and others have over Chairman Frank and the Democrat party. Your tax dollars are being abused.
The medias ridiculous clarion call when Bachmann makes a comment that ruffles some peoples feathers is also a joke.
I look forward to the continued boot licking of Mr.Demko and the endless articles attempting to discredit one of the finer Congress members to come from this state.
Comment posted May 7, 2009 @ 6:40 am
your right rick Palin Bachman 2012. Go go go
Comment posted May 7, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
Run against Bachmann without talking about Bachmann? Looks like we’ll have to wait till 2012 to get rid of her.
Comment posted May 8, 2009 @ 11:42 am
Please, someone oust the bible-thumping overly-patriotic nutcase that is Michelle Bachmann.
Comment posted May 8, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Kick out Bachmann so we can Cap and Tax the peolpe into the third world. How dare they want to live in freedom.
Comment posted May 9, 2009 @ 9:24 am
Hey Andy, apparently church and faith somehow threaten you? If so, why don’t you research Muslim extremism and get back to us?
Comment posted May 19, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
Michelle Bachman is a google eyed fanatic. All the fanatics in history, including old John Brown, had those wild, crazy eyes when they were ranting. She rabble rouses so much for the Republican party platform that she has little time to focus on the needs of the people in the district she represents. It’s a crazy world when someone like Michelle Bachman becomes a major speaking voice for the Republican party. I’m a Jesus lover, but I don’t recognize his life in her voice. It doesn’t seem to ever sink in to the Republican party that the more people like Michelle and Rush and Cheney talk, the more other people are turned off to the Republican party. It’s down to 21% now with falling numbers in 25 out of 26 demographic populations according to a new Gallup poll released yesterday. Is the party of No and the party of Against Everything and Everyone working hard to be the party of zero?
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