Bachmann ACORNDays after Rep. Michele Bachmann launched a petition against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN is shooting back with a petition of its own.

“When you pick on ACORN, you pick on ME!” the petition says. “Congresswoman Michele Bachmann would rather pick on ACORN than stop the foreclosure crisis — even though Bachmann’s district has the highest rate of foreclosures in Minnesota.”

In April, the Minnesota Independent found that Bachmann’s 6th Congressional District had Minnesota’s highest rate of foreclosures as a percentage of households, at 1.80 percent.

Last week, Bachmann introduced a bill that would forbid the Department of Housing and Urban Development from giving money to nonprofits under indictment — and she was very specific in mentioning ACORN as the target of her legislation. She also launched a petition urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to support her bill.

“Bachmann is on the attack — and is trying to de-fund the very work ACORN does that is keeping so many families from losing their homes,” says the ACORN petition.

Unlike the Bachmann petition, the list of signers and their comments are not open to the public, and it does not say to whom the names will be given.