Reed, Clark hit Bachmann for travel schedule
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 12:41 pm
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Clark, Reed
Democratic House candidates Dr. Maureen Reed and Sen. Tarryl Clark criticized U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann on Friday for her ambitious national speaking schedule. Both have created maps of Bachmann’s recent travels.
Reed’s map, called “Where’s Michele? Missing in Minnesota and Washington, D.C.,” tracks Bachmann’s national appearances, criticizes certain votes, and makes note of Bachmann high number of missed votes.
Reed’s communications director, Trevor Willett, said the campaign is “trying to spread, in a creative way, the message that Michele is not delivering for the people of the 6th CD, but also not doing the job in DC — missing 11% of votes this session.”
Clark’s map, titled “Where in the World is Michele Bachmann?,” which offers a comprehensive list of appearances around the country that Bachmann has made since Clark announced her campaign in 2009.
“It’s clear Congresswoman Bachmann’s priorities are chasing her national celebrity and pursuing her personal agenda – and those priorities come at the expense of her district,” Clark’s campaign manager, Zach Rodvold, said in a statement Friday. “While she appears on countless national talk shows and conservative conventions, a local reporter stumps her by asking her to name just three things she’s done for her district. Her constituents deserve better.”
That was a reference to a Feb. 14 interview with the St. Cloud Times’ Dave Aeikens in which the sophomore representative explained her lack of legislative success: “I am in the deep minority in Congress and a fairly new freshman, so I don’t have substantive bills that I have passed. I would love to.”
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Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 12:56 pm
It’s pretty obvious that she does not thing one for her district. She is too busy on syndicated network television spreading her message of hate. It is really too bad that her district is so naive to the kind of representation they could get, and I live in district 6. I will spend this summer actively getting Michele Bachmann out of this job. We need serious answers not a glorified pundit.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 1:26 pm
I have emailed Tarryl Clark asking for her position on health care and the deficit. She has not responded. On her website she pushes for more spending without raising taxes. How do you do that? How can she rip Bachmann when she won’t respond to my emails. I gave her proof that I live in the 6th district. I also asked her what she had done to slow government spending in Minnesota that is up over 30% in the 8 years under Pawlenty. Guess she is no different than Bachmann.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
How interesting that these people have taken the time to show us all what a wank our elected leadership is.
Question is, what would THEIR personal travel profiles look like if they held office?
Not much different, I’ll wager.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 2:05 pm
She has to go, I live in her district and we have one of the highest foreclosure rate in the state and she is never in her office.
She should also payback the entitlements she recieved for the 23 foster children she raised why should we have had to help pay for them , when she wants people off the entitlements. I would think 23 kids worth of grants, food stamps , and medical asst would amount to quite a bit. So pay up Michele give back to the state what you recieved.
I wonder how much money she recieves from the lobbist, since she sits on the congressional banking committee.
I can only pray that we do not have a 3rd party in the next race against her, last how she won the last time.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 2:09 pm
ha ha! So they have enough time on their hands to make maps to track Bachmann’s whereabouts? I thought we had a 4.5 BILLION deficit to attend to???
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 2:24 pm
Crohnsguy, your looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Attending to the budget is Bachmann’s job. If she is not doing her job, the criticism is well deserved.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 4:37 pm
Irish_Wake,
When the biggest feather in one’s cap is tracking the whereabouts of someone who is supposedly doing “nothing” for their constituents, isn’t that person (Clarke) doing LESS THAN NOTHING?
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Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 8:27 pm
Wow. Making maps. So these two candidates are somehow being derelict in their duty because they made maps showing how Bachmann is being derelict in hers.
That’s a real zinger. You really nailed them. This offense is right up there with an elected official constantly making up paranoid, baseless, unfounded crap every time one opens their mouth. You betcha.
Comment posted February 28, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
In October MinnesotaIndependent reported that Michele Bachmann had missed 105 votes, 13% of the total ….
http://minnesotaindependent.com/47135/bachmann-has-houses-eleventh-worst-record-for-missed-votes
that put her 11th in missing votes, out-absenced by only 10 representatives among 435 total
it does no good for the citizens of the Minnesota 6th if Michele Bachmann misses the congressional votes that actually make policy but somehow has time to attend Tea Parties and Fox Network interviews
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