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Michele Marie Bachmann (/ˈbɑːkmən/;[1] née Amble; April 6, 1956)[2] is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, who represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 to 2015. The district includes several of the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, as well as St. Cloud.
Bachmann was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election,[3] winning the Ames Straw Poll in August 2011 but dropping out in January 2012 after finishing in sixth place in the Iowa caucuses. She previously served in the Minnesota Senate and is the first Republican woman to represent the state in Congress.[4] She is a supporter of the Tea Party movement[5] and a founder of the House Tea Party Caucus.[6]
Bachmann was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election,[3] winning the Ames Straw Poll in August 2011 but dropping out in January 2012 after finishing in sixth place in the Iowa caucuses. She previously served in the Minnesota Senate and is the first Republican woman to represent the state in Congress.[4] She is a supporter of the Tea Party movement[5] and a founder of the House Tea Party Caucus.[6]
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Thanks Maj Marty Hogan for letting us know that April 6 is the anniversary of the birth of Republican Party Congresswoman Michele Marie Bachmann who is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, who represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 to 2015.
Happy 62nd Birthday Michele Marie Bachmann with many happy returns
Background from http://www.biography.com/people/michele-bachmann-20601017
"Michele Bachmann is a former Minnesota congresswoman known for her conservative Tea Party politics and her candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Who Is Michele Bachmann?
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann became a born-again Christian at the age of 16. After earning a law degree, Bachmann became a local conservative activist, protesting abortion clinics and state-mandated educational standards. In 2000 she was elected to the Minnesota state Senate, and earned a reputation for her conservatism and her hyperbolic style. In 2006 Bachmann was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and helped found the conservative Tea Party Caucus, becoming one of President Obama's most outspoken critics. A rising star in the GOP, in June 2011 Bachmann announced her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination but failed to get the bid. She held onto her Congressional seat in Minnesota in 2012, albeit by a very slim margin against Democratic businessman Jim Graves, and left office at the end of her term in early 2015.
Early Life
Born as Michele Marie Amble on April 6, 1956, in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann came from rather ordinary, Midwestern roots. Bachmann's family moved from Iowa to Minnesota when she was young, eventually settling in Anoka, where her parents divorced in 1970. Despite the family separation, Michele remained a bright and popular straight-A student and cheerleader, winning the title of Miss Congeniality in the Miss Anoka competition. After becoming a born-again Christian at the age of 16, Bachmann took a great interest in the Holy Land, spending a summer working on Kibbutz Be'eri near Beer Sheva, Israel, in 1974.
She then matriculated at Winona State College, a medium-sized public school in southeastern Minnesota, where she met her future husband, Marcus Bachmann. She married him shortly after graduation, then took a year off to enjoy married life before starting pursuit of a law degree at the William Mitchell School of Law in St. Paul. Bachmann eventually received her J.D. from Oral Roberts Law and an LL.M. degree from William & Mary Law School, and later worked for five years as an attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service.
Start in Politics
Though she volunteered for Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter's successful presidential campaign in 1976, Bachmann decided she was a Republican after reading the liberal writer Gore Vidal's novel Burr: "He was kind of mocking the Founding Fathers and I just thought, 'What a snot.' I just remember reading the book, putting it in my lap, looking out the window and thinking, 'You know what? I don't think I am a Democrat. I must be a Republican."
After moving the family back to Stillwater, Minnesota, Marcus Bachmann started a Christian counseling practice. Michele Bachmann, no longer working for the IRS, became a full-time mother to her five children while also caring for a number of foster children. Meanwhile, she began to get involved in local politics, at first mostly as a hobby: "I didn't consider myself overtly political," she later recalled. "I certainly didn't think of it as something that I would do as an occupation." She began her career as a political activist in the early 1990s by protesting against abortion clinics, and by leading the fight to start a Christian conservative charter school in Stillwater, which led her to protest against state-mandated educational standards.
Unexpectedly, Bachmann soon found herself ranked among the rising stars of the local Republican Party. A fiery speech at the 2000 Minnesota Republican Convention won Bachmann the GOP nomination for a seat in the state senate; that November, at the age of 44, Bachmann won her first elective office.
Michele Bachmann quickly became one of the most conservative members of the Minnesota Senate, first gaining statewide notoriety in 2003 by proposing a constitutional amendment banning the state from legally recognizing gay marriage. Though Bachmann failed to get that measure onto the ballot, she established herself as a force to be reckoned with on the Republican right.
In 2006, Bachmann set her sights on a bigger prize: a seat in the United States House of Representatives, which was left open when incumbent Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy unsuccessfully ran for United States Senate. Boosted in her fundraising by the support of national evangelical groups and the National Republican Congressional Committee, Bachmann easily won the seat in a three-way race, claiming 50 percent of the vote and becoming one of the few Republican freshmen in the 110th Congress, following a 2006 election cycle dominated by Democrats nationwide. When she was sworn into office in January 2007, Bachmann became the first Republican woman ever to represent Minnesota in Congress.
Well-known for both her strong fiscal and social conservatism, and for her tendency to engage in hyperbolic rhetoric, Bachmann quickly became a prominent and polarizing national political figure. During the hotly contested presidential campaign of 2008, Bachmann declared on national television that Democratic candidate Barack Obama held "anti-American views" and seemed to suggest that such views were widespread among Democrats in Congress and ought to be investigated. "I wish the American media would take a great look," she said, " at the views of people in Congress and find out are they pro-America, or anti-America. I think people would love to see an exposé like that." Liberals and Democrats decried what they saw as an implicit McCarthyism in Bachmann's statements, but her harsh words won her more fervent support on the right. Once Obama took office in 2009, Bachmann became one of his most outspoken opponents in Congress.
2012 GOP Race
In 2010, long since having become a darling of the GOP's conservative base, Bachmann originated the Tea Party Caucus in Congress. While she was passed over that year in her bid for a position in the Republican congressional leadership, she maintained her status as a popular national leader on the American right, and prepared for a potential presidential run in 2012. "I think what this has changed is the grass roots, and what they're looking for. Our phones have been ringing off the hook, our Facebook has been lit up, our donations are pouring in. And people are saying, 'Michele, jump in, we want you to run.'"
In June 2011, Bachmann officially announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency in Waterloo, Iowa—the town of her birth, which happens to be located in the crucial early caucus state. Refusing, in the early days of her campaign, to attack friends such as Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin among the prospective Republican field, Bachmann focused instead on unseating the incumbent president: "This is really a referendum on Barack Obama," she said. "I'm not comparing myself to any other candidate, other than Barack Obama."
Bachmann ended up losing the 2012 presidential bid and in the immediate months after, found herself in a politically vulnerable position. In November, she was able to keep her Minnesota congressional seat but only by a very narrow victory against Democrat Jim Graves.
In May 2013, Bachmann announced that she "will not seek a fifth Congressional term" in a video on her website. "Different than some, I've never considered holding public office to be an occupation," she said. Bachmann has pledged to continue to work hard to advance her "Constitutional Conservative" ideals in her remaining time in office. She also claimed that her decision had nothing to Jim Graves's decision to run again in 2014 and the complaints filed against her presidential campaign with the Federal Election Commission earlier in the year.
After Congress
Bachmann continued to serve as a prominent conservative voice after leaving office in early 2015, unabashedly expressing her views to more than 250,000 followers on Twitter.
In late December 2017, with Minnesota Senator Al Franken days away from formally resigning over sexual harassment allegations, Bachmann told televangelist Jim Bakker that she was considering running for the seat in the November 2018 special election.
Noting she felt it was important to bring her "biblical principles" to the Senate, Bachmann also revealed her ambivalence toward returning to a high-profile public position. "The question is should it be me? Should it be now? But there's also a price you pay," she said. "And the price is bigger than ever because the swamp is so toxic."
It was challenging to find a positive video on Michelle Bachmann.
Michele Bachmann! A Full on Sermon! Values Voters Summit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awElG5MXRiU
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris RamseyCPL Eric Escasio SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Craig Cheltenham Sgt Kelli Mays
Happy 62nd Birthday Michele Marie Bachmann with many happy returns
Background from http://www.biography.com/people/michele-bachmann-20601017
"Michele Bachmann is a former Minnesota congresswoman known for her conservative Tea Party politics and her candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Who Is Michele Bachmann?
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann became a born-again Christian at the age of 16. After earning a law degree, Bachmann became a local conservative activist, protesting abortion clinics and state-mandated educational standards. In 2000 she was elected to the Minnesota state Senate, and earned a reputation for her conservatism and her hyperbolic style. In 2006 Bachmann was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and helped found the conservative Tea Party Caucus, becoming one of President Obama's most outspoken critics. A rising star in the GOP, in June 2011 Bachmann announced her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination but failed to get the bid. She held onto her Congressional seat in Minnesota in 2012, albeit by a very slim margin against Democratic businessman Jim Graves, and left office at the end of her term in early 2015.
Early Life
Born as Michele Marie Amble on April 6, 1956, in Waterloo, Iowa, Michele Bachmann came from rather ordinary, Midwestern roots. Bachmann's family moved from Iowa to Minnesota when she was young, eventually settling in Anoka, where her parents divorced in 1970. Despite the family separation, Michele remained a bright and popular straight-A student and cheerleader, winning the title of Miss Congeniality in the Miss Anoka competition. After becoming a born-again Christian at the age of 16, Bachmann took a great interest in the Holy Land, spending a summer working on Kibbutz Be'eri near Beer Sheva, Israel, in 1974.
She then matriculated at Winona State College, a medium-sized public school in southeastern Minnesota, where she met her future husband, Marcus Bachmann. She married him shortly after graduation, then took a year off to enjoy married life before starting pursuit of a law degree at the William Mitchell School of Law in St. Paul. Bachmann eventually received her J.D. from Oral Roberts Law and an LL.M. degree from William & Mary Law School, and later worked for five years as an attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service.
Start in Politics
Though she volunteered for Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter's successful presidential campaign in 1976, Bachmann decided she was a Republican after reading the liberal writer Gore Vidal's novel Burr: "He was kind of mocking the Founding Fathers and I just thought, 'What a snot.' I just remember reading the book, putting it in my lap, looking out the window and thinking, 'You know what? I don't think I am a Democrat. I must be a Republican."
After moving the family back to Stillwater, Minnesota, Marcus Bachmann started a Christian counseling practice. Michele Bachmann, no longer working for the IRS, became a full-time mother to her five children while also caring for a number of foster children. Meanwhile, she began to get involved in local politics, at first mostly as a hobby: "I didn't consider myself overtly political," she later recalled. "I certainly didn't think of it as something that I would do as an occupation." She began her career as a political activist in the early 1990s by protesting against abortion clinics, and by leading the fight to start a Christian conservative charter school in Stillwater, which led her to protest against state-mandated educational standards.
Unexpectedly, Bachmann soon found herself ranked among the rising stars of the local Republican Party. A fiery speech at the 2000 Minnesota Republican Convention won Bachmann the GOP nomination for a seat in the state senate; that November, at the age of 44, Bachmann won her first elective office.
Michele Bachmann quickly became one of the most conservative members of the Minnesota Senate, first gaining statewide notoriety in 2003 by proposing a constitutional amendment banning the state from legally recognizing gay marriage. Though Bachmann failed to get that measure onto the ballot, she established herself as a force to be reckoned with on the Republican right.
In 2006, Bachmann set her sights on a bigger prize: a seat in the United States House of Representatives, which was left open when incumbent Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy unsuccessfully ran for United States Senate. Boosted in her fundraising by the support of national evangelical groups and the National Republican Congressional Committee, Bachmann easily won the seat in a three-way race, claiming 50 percent of the vote and becoming one of the few Republican freshmen in the 110th Congress, following a 2006 election cycle dominated by Democrats nationwide. When she was sworn into office in January 2007, Bachmann became the first Republican woman ever to represent Minnesota in Congress.
Well-known for both her strong fiscal and social conservatism, and for her tendency to engage in hyperbolic rhetoric, Bachmann quickly became a prominent and polarizing national political figure. During the hotly contested presidential campaign of 2008, Bachmann declared on national television that Democratic candidate Barack Obama held "anti-American views" and seemed to suggest that such views were widespread among Democrats in Congress and ought to be investigated. "I wish the American media would take a great look," she said, " at the views of people in Congress and find out are they pro-America, or anti-America. I think people would love to see an exposé like that." Liberals and Democrats decried what they saw as an implicit McCarthyism in Bachmann's statements, but her harsh words won her more fervent support on the right. Once Obama took office in 2009, Bachmann became one of his most outspoken opponents in Congress.
2012 GOP Race
In 2010, long since having become a darling of the GOP's conservative base, Bachmann originated the Tea Party Caucus in Congress. While she was passed over that year in her bid for a position in the Republican congressional leadership, she maintained her status as a popular national leader on the American right, and prepared for a potential presidential run in 2012. "I think what this has changed is the grass roots, and what they're looking for. Our phones have been ringing off the hook, our Facebook has been lit up, our donations are pouring in. And people are saying, 'Michele, jump in, we want you to run.'"
In June 2011, Bachmann officially announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency in Waterloo, Iowa—the town of her birth, which happens to be located in the crucial early caucus state. Refusing, in the early days of her campaign, to attack friends such as Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin among the prospective Republican field, Bachmann focused instead on unseating the incumbent president: "This is really a referendum on Barack Obama," she said. "I'm not comparing myself to any other candidate, other than Barack Obama."
Bachmann ended up losing the 2012 presidential bid and in the immediate months after, found herself in a politically vulnerable position. In November, she was able to keep her Minnesota congressional seat but only by a very narrow victory against Democrat Jim Graves.
In May 2013, Bachmann announced that she "will not seek a fifth Congressional term" in a video on her website. "Different than some, I've never considered holding public office to be an occupation," she said. Bachmann has pledged to continue to work hard to advance her "Constitutional Conservative" ideals in her remaining time in office. She also claimed that her decision had nothing to Jim Graves's decision to run again in 2014 and the complaints filed against her presidential campaign with the Federal Election Commission earlier in the year.
After Congress
Bachmann continued to serve as a prominent conservative voice after leaving office in early 2015, unabashedly expressing her views to more than 250,000 followers on Twitter.
In late December 2017, with Minnesota Senator Al Franken days away from formally resigning over sexual harassment allegations, Bachmann told televangelist Jim Bakker that she was considering running for the seat in the November 2018 special election.
Noting she felt it was important to bring her "biblical principles" to the Senate, Bachmann also revealed her ambivalence toward returning to a high-profile public position. "The question is should it be me? Should it be now? But there's also a price you pay," she said. "And the price is bigger than ever because the swamp is so toxic."
It was challenging to find a positive video on Michelle Bachmann.
Michele Bachmann! A Full on Sermon! Values Voters Summit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awElG5MXRiU
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSgt (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris RamseyCPL Eric Escasio SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Craig Cheltenham Sgt Kelli Mays
Former Tea Party presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is considering running for former Sen. Al Franken's Minnesota seat. “There's also a price you pay. And the price is bigger than ever because the swamp is so toxic," she said. "We're trying to be wise."
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Remember how the media vilified her during the 2012 Presidential election? I would bet all the female Hillary supporters were nowhere to be found in 2012 to support Bachmann, but they'll cry sexism when Hillary lost. Of course, they would be correct in not supporting a candidate simply because of their sex. That would be foolish, but we saw it with Hillary supporters in 2016.
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"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009"
"We're running out of rich people in this country."
An Anti-Vasx loon also:
"I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter."
Not to mention delusional about American History
"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009"
"We're running out of rich people in this country."
An Anti-Vasx loon also:
"I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter."
Not to mention delusional about American History
"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."
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I'm not arguing her moral character or personal fitness. I'm exposing the hypocrisy of people who knew nothing of Hillary Clinton's policies but were willing to vote for her because "it's 2016" and because a woman should hold office. If those are their only two factors, where was their support for previous female presidential candidates?
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Maj Marty Hogan I have always been a fan of Michele Bachmann, I always liked what she had to say. When she threw her hat in the ring, I immediately threw my support to her, but the left knocked her right off the platform. It was a shame as I thought she would make a great president!
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