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This fact-packed exposé reveals all the dirty little secrets that Michele Bachmann would rather you didn't know

Since Michele Bachmann became a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, journalists have been plumbing the depths of the well-regarded blog Dump Bachmann for material on her. Now the bloggers themselves pour forth a decade's worth of research and analysis to show that, no matter what you've heard about Bachmann, there's worse. Much worse. After dogging her heels for the past decade, they reveal the blood-curdling truth about the woman who may well become the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee.

Describes Bachmann's faith-based antischool agenda and antigay crusade
Explores her fellow travelers, her problematic pastors, and criminal supporters, any of whom could become her Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Reveals the boondoggles she's supported, the pernicious legislation she's championed (but, fortunately, almost never passed), and her foreign policy, which boils down to Jesus will be her Secretary of Defense
Exposes the truth behind the notorious "Bathroomgate" incident
Uncovers the influence of outside money on Bachmann's campaigns, causes, and policies

Democrats disappointed by Obama, Republicans embarrassed by their party's shallow field of candidates, and moderate independents looking for a reasonable choice need to know all they can about presidential contenders. The Madness of Michele Bachman provides deep background they won't find in the mainstream media.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii

INTRODUCTION Putting the Pieces Together 1

1 Bachmann's Fellow Travelers 5

2 Bachmann's Antigay Crusade 27

3 Bachmann's Mean Streak (and Other Campaign Problems) 43

4 Bachmann's Record of Nonachievement 77

5 Bachmann's Antischool Agenda 125

6 Bachmann's Faith-Based Agenda 137

7 Bachmann's "Frank Vennes" Problem 165

8 Bachmann's "Bobby Thompson" Problem 199

9 Bachmann's Bathroomgate 217

10 Bachmann's Secretary of State: Jesus 229

11 Bachmann's Boondoggles 239

APPENDIX The Quotable Bachmann 257

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Karl Bremer

Michele Bachmann

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	02 novembre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781118226278
Langue	English

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Contents
Cover
Half Title page
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Putting the Pieces Together
Chapter 1: Bachmann’s Fellow Travelers
The Admiral
Barb Anderson
Chris Baker
Former Minnesota State Representative Mark Olson (R-Big Lake)
Bradlee Dean
Janet Boynes
Andrew Breitbart
Marcus Bachmann
Jason Lewis
Larry Klayman
James O’Keefe
Bill Pulkrabek
John A. Stormer
Mary Kiffmeyer
Phyllis Schlafly
Orly Taitz
Tony Perkins
David Strom
Robert Battle
Chapter 2: Bachmann’s Antigay Crusade
Senator Bachmann’s Crusade during the 2004 Legislative Session
Letter from Senator Michele Bachmann
Bachmann Takes the Marriage Vow
Chapter 3: Bachmann’s Mean Streak (and Other Campaign Problems)
Whom Does Bachmann Really Represent?
Ethical Lapses
Bachmann’s Mean Streak
A Constituency of One
Bachmann’s Court
Marcus Miles
Getting the FEC Involved
Pepsi’s Homosexual Agenda
Bachmann’s Legacy
Bachmann’s Duck-and-Cover Strategy
Bachmann’s Sloppy Bookkeeping
Chapter 4: Bachmann’s Record of Nonachievement
Stillborn in Stillwater
Annus Horribilis
Creating a Presumption
Unity Doesn’t Work for Bachmann
Bachmann Itemized
Bachmann Relieved
Enough to Make You Sick
Here Lies
Eminently Bachmann
Bachmannomics
She Couldn’t Give a SCHIP
Doing Less with More
Party Girl
The Promised Land
MIA
The Public Trough
Hawaiian Lyin’
Banks, Blastocysts, Big Oil, and Big Pharma Big Winners in Bachmann’s First Hundred Hours
Hypocrite Bachmann and Her Secret “Letter-Mark” Requests for Socialist Stimulus Pork $$$ Revealed
Bachmann Shocked Veterans with a Plan That Would Cut Veterans’ Benefits
Hydrocephalus Hypocrisy
Not on the Road Again
Bachmann’s Future Plans
Chapter 5: Bachmann’s Antischool Agenda
Bachmann and David Barton
Bachmann Hangs Teenage Republican Student Out to Dry
Bachmann Lies about Creationism in the Public Schools
Bachmann and EdWatch
Bachmann Still Kissing Public School Abolitionists’ ASSS
Bachmann and Bullying
Bachmann Claimed That President Obama Created Reeducation Camps
Chapter 6: Bachmann’s Faith-Based Agenda
Generation Joshua
Pastor Mac Hammond and the Living Word Center
EdWatch, the Nonprofit Arm of Bachmann’s Political Campaigns
Bachmann and Minnesota Teen Challenge
Bachmann’s Pastor Problem: Bradlee Dean
Smith Resorts to Sheriff’s Complaint
Chapter 7: Bachmann’s “Frank Vennes” Problem
Pardongate
Frank Vennes Jr.’s Rap Sheet
The Petters Ponzi Scheme
Did Frank Vennes Jr. Try to Buy a Pardon?
Pawlenty and Vennes
The Karl Rove Connection
Vennes and Teen Challenge
Campaign Cash for Bachmann
So Close
Take a Second Look
OPA Meddling?
Questions Remain
Follow the Money
Payback
The Next Step
Chapter 8: Bachmann’s “Bobby Thompson” Problem
The $10,000 Photo
The Investigation
Bachmann Dumps PAC after Dump Bachmann Dumps on PAC
Washing Her Hands
$1.56 Million from a P.O. Box
A Typical RNC Patriot
State Campaign Finance Board Fines Bobby Thompson
What about the Dirty Money?
No Help from the Attorney General
Chapter 9: Bachmann’s Bathroomgate
An Eyewitness Account
The Vandeveer Version
Bachmann’s Shifting Accounts
Chapter 10: Bachmann’s Secretary of State: Jesus
Bachmann on Nuking Iran
Bachmann’s Night with the King
Bachmannistan
Appreciating Everyone’s Values and Cultures
Compulsory Divorce
The Price of Michele Bachmann’s Vote
Bachmann Claimed God Will Curse the United States If It Won’t Support Israel
Chapter 11: Bachmann’s Boondoggles
Michele Bachmann and the Stillwater Bridge
Bachmann Said Liberals Want to Force Everyone to Ride the Light Rail
Michele Bachmann: “Drill Here, Drill Now”
Bachmann’s Pod People
Michele Bachmann’s Trashy Adopt-a-Highway Saga
Appendix: The Quotable Bachmann
On Her Career Aspirations
On the Persecution She’s Suffered
On Work
On Evolution
On Gay Marriage
On the Constitution
On Kissing President Bush
On Muslims
On the Natural World
On President Obama
On Our Nefarious Government
On Energy
On the Man
On the Middle East
On God’s Will
On History
The MADNESS of Michele Bachmann

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank the many people who helped to make this book possible: the bloggers and journalists in Minnesota and elsewhere who have reported about Michele Bachmann’s antics; the government workers who make data about candidates and public officials accessible to the public; the many nonprofit organizations that assist in bringing that data to light; our readers for their tips, suggestions, and comments; and those who must remain anonymous (you know who you are).
We also thank Stephen S. Power at John Wiley & Sons for his assistance in distilling a mountain of material from our blogs into book format in record time.
Most of all, the authors thank their long-suffering families and friends who endured more than a decade of listening to us discuss this subject endlessly and suffered through countless Michele Bachmann videos and broadcasts.
For more tales of Michele Bachmann and continuing stories mentioned in this book, follow the authors’ blogs online:

Dump Bachmann Blog: http://www.DumpBachmann.com
Lloydletta’s Nooz (Eva Young): http://Lloydletta.blogspot.com
Ripple in Stillwater (Karl Bremer): http://www.RippleInStillwater.com
Vennes Info Blog (Ken Avidor): http://VennesInfo.blogspot.com
INTRODUCTION
Putting the Pieces Together
G etting Michele Bachmann’s story on record has always been Dump Bachmann ’s primary goal. Equally important has been getting it right—and, as often as not, we’ve gotten it first.
Dump Bachmann was the first to get Bachmann’s most hateful and misinformed antigay rhetoric on the record with the posting of her infamous 2004 speech at EdWatch Minnesota, “The Effects of Gay Marriage on Education.” It was Dump Bachmann that first exposed to the world her theocratic campaign speech at the Living Word Church in 2006, in which she talked of being called by God to run for office and preached that women should be “submissive” to their husbands. In both cases, it was Bachmann’s own words that did her in.
That would prove to be the case time and time again during Bachmann’s political career—hoisted with the petard of her own words and record.
Bachmann’s proclivity toward inflammatory and fact-free statements, hypocrisy, and mishandling the truth has drawn frequent comparisons to former half-term Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. So naturally, we wondered whether her—and, for some of us, our—hometown of Stillwater, Minnesota, was about to suffer the fate of Sarah Palin’s Wasilla, whose city hall James Carville famously compared to a south Louisiana bait shop.
The national and international press did indeed head straight for Stillwater. Some didn’t even bother to visit Stillwater but smeared it from afar, such as Rolling Stone ’s Matt Taibbi, who called it “a Midwestern version of a Currier & Ives set piece, complete with cozy homes, antique stores—and no black people. In short, the perfect launching pad for a political career built on Bachmann’s retro-Stepford image.”
In defense of my own hometown of Stillwater, I’ve had to inform the media that if they are looking for the typical Bachmann Tea Party voter, they are more likely to find him or her elsewhere in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, because Bachmann has failed to carry Stillwater in any of her three congressional races. In fact, not until she moved t