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Showing posts with label Marcus Bachmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marcus Bachmann. Show all posts
In the waning days of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign, her husband, Marcus Bachmann, allegedly wrote an e-mail describing his efforts to raise much-needed funds through an outside “super PAC.”
That e-mail is now in the hands of the U.S. Justice Department, which has subpoenaed records from the National Fiscal Conservative (NFC) Political Action Committee as part of a federal grand jury investigation into potentially illegal coordination between the PAC and Bachmann’s campaign.
The grand jury subpoena, first reported in the New York Times, represents a major escalation in the multiple federal and state inquiries that rose from alleged election law violations brought forward last January by campaign whistleblower Peter Waldron.
“It’s a pivot point,” said Waldron, a Florida minister and longtime Republican operative who says he grew disillusioned with the ethical practices of the campaign.
Officials representing Bachmann and the NFC PAC did not respond to requests for comment Friday. Bachmann announced in May that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.
Forced out of office because of a Federal investigation. Hmm, where have I seen a similar case?
Personally I hope this is just the beginning. I think that there are a LOT of these Teabagger types who could use a little Federal scrutiny.
A conservative Christian political consulting firm nearly gifted Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) with a vibrator, according to court documents obtained by BuzzFeed.
The CEO of Strategy Group for Media, Rex Elsass, reportedly sent “female pleasure machines” to Bachmann by accident.
In hopes of helping with her migraines, Elsass intended to purchase an electronic head massager for the conservative congresswoman. He sent an employee off to buy the device, but the employee purchased something a bit different and mailed it to Bachmann.
The electronic device did vibrate, but it apparently was not designed to be used on the head.
Sources familiar with the incident told BuzzFeed that the Christian group intercepted the gift before Bachmann was able to open it.
Strategy Group for Media was lucky. Bachmann would have likely been baffled and insulted by the gift.
"Baffled and insulted by the gift?" Please, Michele Bachmann is married to THIS guy.
Are we to believe that she has not had to learn to "help herself" since tying the knot with Fernando Fruity up there? Yeah right.
I imagine that if the device had not been intercepted Bachamnn would have opened it, kicked everybody out of her office, locked the door, and spent several hours baffling her insulted naughty bits until she blew a fuse or blacked out from exhaustion.
Bachmann has been leading a campaign against immigration reform, declaring last month that the GOP will never again be able to elect get a president in office if the “amnesty” bill passes. “It’s my prediction that the House Republicans could put themselves in a position where they could actually lose the gavel in 2014,” she said today. “Because I think the president, even by executive order, could again wave his magic wand before 2014. And he’d say, ‘Now all of the new legal Americans are going to have voting rights.’”
If this were to happen, which pro-Gang of Eight types say is unlikely given the increasingly long path to citizenship outlined in the bill, Bachmann warned that once Democrats controlled the executive branch and both houses of Congress, they would then “change election law and it will be almost impossible to ever see a Republican majority again.”
Bachmann assured her intended audience that she’s “not crying wolf here.”
President Obama “has a perpetual magic wand,” Bachmann asserted, “and nobody’s giving him a spanking yet and taking it out of his hand. That’s what Congress needs to do: give the president a major wake-up call.” The way we “spank the president,” according to Bachmann is “through the checkbook,” denying him the funding he needs to pull off this massive voter manipulation scheme.
Oookey dokey then. You know usually I would be all over the inherent racism in these statements by Bacahmann, but I have to admit that I am somewhat distracted by the very obvious, and very creepy, sexual innuendo in her remarks.
I mean who talks about spanking the most powerful man in the world? And as for he "magic wand?" I think THAT speaks for itself.
I guess we should have expected something like this from Bachmann, after all this is whose magic wand she is currently allowed to touch.
"Look butch Marcus. Remember, always look butch."
Yeah somehow I think HIS magic wand only shoots out rainbow colored glitter.
And it is not like Michele has not given us hints as to where her true passions lie.
You can practice all you want Michele, but if you think the OTHER Michelle will let you get within magic wand biting range of her husband, well you have another think coming.
With deafening cheers and overwhelming emotion, the Minnesota Senate voted 37-30 to legalize same-sex marriage.
“Today, love wins,” said Sen. Tony Lourey, DFL-Kerrick.
The vote, on the heels of a vote last week in the House, brings to a close a decade of debate over marriage that has echoed through the Capitol, bringing thousands of friends and foes of gay marriage to its marbled dome to express their deeply held feelings.
The measure next moves to Gov. Mark Dayton, who will welcome it with his signature in a celebratory ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the south steps of the Capitol.
Once it is signed, Minnesota will become the twelfth state to legalize same sex-marriage.
"It's historic and I can never be so proud of this body and of Minnesotans," said Sen. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis. On the Senate floor, Hayden said that his wife is white and noted that just 50 years ago, his loving relationship would have been barred.
Good for Minnesota right? Well not completely, after all not EVERYBODY was quite so happy to "touch the rainbow."
Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, said up until the last he was praying for a miracle and the Senate to reject the bill.
“Some people have said that they are concerned about being on the right side of history. I am more concerned about being on the right side of eternity,” said Hall.
Yes make sure not to do the right thing in life, for fear of being punished for it after death.
I think that should be the new Christian motto.
I think at least one couple should be ecstatic that this law has now passed.
Now finally THIS deviant marriage will finally be legal in the eyes of Minnesota, and Marcus can stop pretending he does not know what to do with a hot throbbing foot long piece of meat.
You have to admit, it does seem just a tad counter intuitive.
(P.S. If you think I misspelled the headline you need to find somebody younger to explain why I didn't.)
Update: For those who are questioning whether this is indeed a Colbert quote, yes it is.
He said it while discussing Michele and Marcus Bachmann's "pray away the gay" clinics. You can see for yourself by clicking here. (Video is second one down.)
I admit that I have NO idea what is going on in this picture.
I don't know if Michel and Marcus are participating in a live action nativity scene, or got caught answering their door wearing the bathrobes they stole from the Jerusalem Holiday Inn, or are in the middle of some weird 10th century sex play where she is the strict shopkeeper and he is the naughty pomegranate stealing street urchin. (All together now, "Eeew!")
All I know is that I find the picture deeply disturbing, and rife with possibilities for creative captions.
It's bad enough that Bachmann and Associates, after denying for years they practiced ex-gay therapy, clearly encourages patients to pray the gay away. Our taxpayer dollars shouldn't be funding it.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees Medicaid, and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), which distributes the funds within the state, should immediately pull public funds from Bachmann's clinic.
Going to the Bachmann family for counseling is like attending a peace rally hosted by Dick Cheney.
Their views are extreme, hateful and crazy. Michele Bachmann has called homosexuality "a part of Satan," and "a real issue of sexual dysfunction" while her husband Marcus has called gays "barbarians."
And even as Michele Bachmann's family was collecting over $160,000 in Medicaid and other public funds, she was leading Tea Party calls for drastic cuts to the social safety net - especially to Medicaid which she has said swell the "welfare rolls" - and even voted to shut down the government rather than continue funding Planned Parenthood and the Health Care Reform Act.3
Tell Secretary Sebelius and DHS Commissioner Lucinda Jesson: Stop funding Bachmann's anti-gay clinic.
If you click the link provided at the top it will immediately take you to the Credo Action website where you can add your name to a petition demanding the following:
"Public money shouldn't fund a discriminatory, hateful religious agenda and medically-unsound ex-gay therapy. In light of recent investigations, please take action to immediately stop funding Bachmann and Associates."
I did it yesterday and, I have to say, it kind of gave me a good feeling.
After talking for about three minutes, Bachmann waded into the crowd filled with adoring supporters.
Moments later, as she tried to exit the area back to a waiting drive cart, Bachmann found herself in the middle of a mob of people: among them many supporters and members of the press including this reporter and CNN anchor Don Lemon.
As both CNN staffers tried to question Bachmann, Lemon said he was pushed by two members of Bachmann’s staff. Lemon also said that Marcus Bachmann, the congresswoman’s husband, pushed him.
“She came out, after speaking for just a couple minutes,” Lemon said. “There were other reporters and cameras there. And I asked her very respectful questions: ‘How do you think you did in the debate last night?’ and ‘How do you think you’re going to end up in the Ames Straw Poll?’ And her two campaign aides started elbowing me.”
Lemon continued: “I told them, asked them not to elbow me. And then her husband Marcus started doing the same thing. And then he elbowed me into the cart. And I said, ‘You just pushed me into the cart.’ And he goes, ‘No, you did it yourself.’
“It was just, I don’t know, why they would choose to do that. We weren’t asking any ‘gotcha’ questions,” Lemon added.
Gee I wonder what got the Bachmanncampaign so "wee'd wee'd up?"
Perhaps a reporter from Des Moines Register can clear this up:
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was 30 minutes late to speak at her scheduled soapbox event and spoke for three of the 20 allotted minutes.
She said she was going to shake hands, but left the makeshift stage quickly when 17-year-old Gabe Aderhold of Edina, Minn., loudly questioned her husband, Marcus, about counseling techniques at his clinic to “pray the gay away.”
Uh oh, it looks like the unscientific, and potentially damaging, "therapy" sessions that the Bachmann's use in their "pray away the gay" clinics might be a sore spot for the campaign to deal with. Well gee if I were a reporter in Iowa I know exactly which question I would keep bringing up.
Bachmann said that someone must have doctored the recording of the interview, in which he addressed child discipline as well as homosexuality and sex education.
The recording also became a focus of media attention this week, including ABC's "Nightline."
"I was talking in reference to children. Nothing, nothing to do with homosexuality. That's not my mindset. That's not my belief system. That's not the way I would talk," Bachmann said.
"I think the strongest myth. ... is the myth that I have ever called a homosexual a barbarian," Bachmann said
Unfortunately for Marcus I am not sure that Americans are going to be that much happier with the idea of their children being called "barbarians" by a grown man.
Besides the blogger who first posted the video, states unequivocally that it was NOT doctored in any way.
In response to news that the Bachmann clinics accept federal Medicaid funds, while his wife attacks government funding:
Bachmann said federal and state subsidies flow to his business because it doesn't discriminate against patients in subsidized health-care programs.
"It's low income. It's people who are on limited income," Bachmann said. "It is a lower-paying insurance. It's not a money maker. ... So, gee, we get criticized because we take it. And somehow they tie it all in, into my wife because she's the big proponent of less taxes and less programs and so forth.
"So, over and over the bell rings about how we take this federal money," he continued. "Oooh, how evil that is. And I say to you: 'No. It would be evil not to.'"
"There are many grants that are just not that wise. This one actually made a lot of sense," Bachmann said. He said his business lost money by accepting the grant because the training kept employees from seeing clients.
"It had to go and rightfully so, totally to the employees. It didn't go into the pot where Bachmann & Associates could collect, receive, so that we could go on a little vacation or go to wherever," he said.
So it is okay to take government funds for providing widely discredited counseling, while your wife stands on a soapbox decrying government waste, because it "actually made a lot of sense?"
Well I guess it is not technically fraud unless Dr. Bachmann is not really a doctor of Psychology, but that would be crazy tal...wait what is that you say?
On his website Dr. Bachmann states he’s had 23 years experience. Simple math brings us to the year 1988. If Dr. Bachmann’s Ph.D. was completed prior to this date, he might have graduated from The Union Graduate School which offered ONLY a Ph.D. in Arts and Sciences. If he graduated later than 1986, then he would have graduated from The Union Institute (1986), or The Union Institute and University (2001) and his Ph.D. would have been in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Ohhh! Well that is not good. But I guess as long as he is a licensed clinician he should be fin...what...seriously?
Bachmann is not a licensed psychologist in Minnesota, but state law has allowed unlicensed therapists to see patients. According to the Bachmann & Associates website, he has been a clinical therapist in the Twin Cities for more than 20 years.
Unbelievable. These people may in fact be grifters ALMOST on the same level as the Palin Traveling Circus, and Baby Factory.
By the way, for any of you who might be interested, the Bachmann's just came out with a video to explain their views on marriage.
