Bachmann starts MICHELEPAC to support conservatives
Monday, August 02, 2010 at 4:52 pm
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The Associated Press is reporting that Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, has started a leadership PAC to back fellow conservatives.
It’s called MICHELEPAC, or “Many Individual Conservatives Helping Elect Leaders Everywhere.” The AP said the PAC hasn’t yet reported any donations.
This leaves Rep. Keith Ellison as the only member of the Minnesota congressional delegation who doesn’t have a leadership PAC, as the Star Tribune points out.
There are 335 leadership PACs; they’ve already given out almost $20 million this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which warns that leadership PACs are among the most difficult to trace:
The limits on how a politician can spend leadership PAC money are not especially strict. Also, lacking a requirement that lawmakers disclose their affiliations with leadership PACs, these committees have been able to slip under the radar for years.
This comes on the heels of her creation of the the House Tea Party Caucus a few weeks back, which she chairs. The PAC could offer Bachmann more influence by giving her caucus members a financial boost.
Bachmann was scheduled to appear in St. Louis Monday at a rally for Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, which raised the ire of Tea Party activists who said she had betrayed the movement. Despite a hospital visit Friday, Bachmann spoke to the audience through Skype, an online video phone application.
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Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 9:58 pm
You are doing a GREAT job, Michelle. Keep up the good work. Help lead us to victory in November. We need to rid our Congress of the losers now there and restore respect for and adherence to our Constitution.
Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 10:00 pm
If everyone will vote in November to remove the liberals pushing us into socialism, there may still be time to survive. Go get em, Michelle !
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 10:53 am
It is incredible, and a serious knock on American culture, that a woman of such limited knowledge, lack of critical thinking and deranged beliefs can get elected to congress. When she ventures anywhere near facts, she gets them wrong repeatedly. She clearly simply changes the facts to match her belief system. Apparently, the farmers in her district will vote for anybody as long as the oppose abortion.
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 4:16 pm
So she has jumped on the empire-builder bandwagon.
Sorry, I am looking for someone in the “Statesman” category.
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
~ William E. Gladstone, 1866
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 11:57 pm
Hey, Babs.
Will you be stealing from our Veterans for this PAC also?
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Comment posted August 28, 2010 @ 1:08 pm
Republicans have absolutely NO CREDIBILITY on economic matters.
Why?
• Because 95% of all our national debt has come under Republican Presidencies,
• Not a single Republican President has reduced Federal spending in the last 60 years,
• Conservative ideology of “Laissez Faire” is failed, as demonstrated under Bush’s Wall Street. Bush placed ZERO regulations on Wall Streets “Mortgage Backed Securities”, “Derivatives Trading”, and “Credit Default Swaps” resulting in Wall Street over leveraging our Federal Reserve by 5x of what Fannie/Freddie actually loaned out, collapsing our banking system and economy.
• Conservative ideology of “Tax Cuts without Spending Cuts” is failed and is exactly the reason why 95% of our national debt has come from under Republican Presidencies.
• Republicans complain about Fannie/Freddie lending being the result of Democrats, but in 6 years of republican controlled Congress and Presidency, they changed NOTHING. Why? Because it was the only thing propping up the Republican economy.
Voting Republicans back in to fix the economy is like asking an arsonist to house sit while you are going on vacation.
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