Bachmann: State aid for teachers, Medicaid will really fund Dem campaigns
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 2:19 pm
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, along with the rest of the Republicans in Minnesota’s delegation, voted against the $26.1 billion state aid bill (including about $430 million for Minnesota Medicaid patients and teachers), which President Obama signed into law yesterday. The measure includes nearly $167 million to save around 2,800 teaching jobs in Minnesota, according to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Last night Bachmann discussed her vote, briefly, on Fox’s Sean Hannity show, agreeing that the bill is “Nancy Pelosi’s cash for Democrat reelection program.” Public employee unions, she told Hannity, have “received their $26 billion payoff, now they’re going to skim the top of the public union dues off the top, put it in political action coffers and then use it to run these Democrat reelection campaigns, and to go after Republicans.”
Her statement, followed by the video (she starts 1:30 in):
BACHMANN: Well, let’s face it, that’s what it is. And that isn’t just Michele Bachmann saying it, Sean. That’s the newspapers in Washington, D.C., saying that now these public employee unions have received their $26 billion payoff, now they’re going to skim the top of the public union dues off the top, put it in political action coffers and then use it to run these Democrat reelection campaigns, and to go after Republicans.
So think of how outrageous this is. The public that is completely dismissed and turned away from the Pelosi agenda, now Speaker Pelosi is using the American people’s tax money to send it out to the door of public employee unions so part of that money can be used to reelection the Democrats they oppose? It’s outrageous.
12 Comments
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 3:16 pm
Did she just refer to herself in the 3rd person? How Nixonian.
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 4:05 pm
Maybe if Republicans ever did anything to help poor people, the unemployed, teachers, firefighters, police, etc. then these people would have a reason to vote Republican. Even if Republicans would stop trying to completely crush these groups, maybe the GOP could get some more votes.
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 4:39 pm
Well, if this is just a dirty Democratic trick, then at least our school children and people who need health care are benefiting from it. Who’s benfiting from the dirty Republican tricks other than the rich?
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 6:35 pm
So are the Minnesota Republicans going to reject the money?
The schools, police, fire, Medicaid program etc have no financial problems in Minnesota?
They don’t need any funds from them closing a tax loop hole of businesses that send the jobs overseas?
What I would like to know, is why wasn’t this loophole closed LONG before now?
Does Bachmann really speak for all of Minnesota?
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 7:20 pm
IIRC, one of Bachmann’s sons signed on to Teach For America last year. By this time he is teaching somewhere in the country. I guess Bachmann didn’t think about him when she voted against this bill.
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 8:14 pm
She is getting more insane by the moment. That being said, the Republicans have been trying to get rid of public education for 30 years. She has now become their standard bearer.
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 11:06 pm
Linda, the Republican response is to take the money *and* the credit for having gotten money for their districts.
Comment posted August 12, 2010 @ 10:02 am
Once again, Bachmann is LYING. She said that, “public employee unions have received their $26 billion payoff.”
A lie, plain and verifiable. Not one penny is going to any union. It is going to school departments to pay the salaries of people who otherwise would be laid off.
I recognize that I live is a solid blue state, and Minnesota is more complicated than that. But candidly, Minnesotans, how did this lunatic get elected?
Comment posted August 12, 2010 @ 11:29 am
Is she insane enough to think that they would support job-killing republicans like her? I wish that was a rhetorical question.
Comment posted August 12, 2010 @ 5:18 pm
“That’s the newspapers in Washington, D.C., saying that …” Well. I guess that ends the argument.
Comment posted August 12, 2010 @ 8:57 pm
“What I would like to know, is why wasn’t this loophole closed LONG before now?”
Ummm, same reason any business than can afford good lawyers can get away with hiring illegal immigrants? Because that’s the way the US Chamber of Commerce wants it.
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