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The Office of Congressional Ethics has been investigating the Bachmann campaign for “alleged intentional” violations. There was an ethics probe into her campaign, allegations that her people deny, of course, because ‘Chele and her staff would never EVER do anything that would mar her “family values” image. Not ever.
John Avlon at the Daily Beast:
Former staffers tell The Daily Beast that investigators have allegedly asked about allegations of improper transfer of funds and under-the-table payments actions by Bachmann’s presidential campaign…
The Bachmann campaign’s national political director, Guy Short, and her onetime Iowa campaign chairman, state Sen. Kent Sorenson have been the focus. Investigators have been curious about what she knew about their actions and when she knew it.
You may recall that Sorenson left Bachmann’s campaign to join Ron Paul’s. Oh snap.
Now a GOP operative and former chief of staff to Bachmann, Andy Parrish, will corroborate allegations from former Bachmann aide and Florida pastor, Peter Waldron. Waldron is saying that the campaign hid payments to Sorenson in violation of Iowa Senate ethics rules that forbid members from getting paid by presidential campaigns.
Via the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
GOP operative Andy Parrish, a former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, is expected to tell an Iowa Senate ethics panel that her 2012 presidential campaign made improper payments to its state chairman. [...]
The investigations are part of a growing web of legal problems facing Bachmann, including a lawsuit by former staffer Barbara Heki alleging that Sorenson stole a proprietary e-mail list of Iowa home-school families from her personal computer. Those allegations also are the subject of an ongoing police investigation in Urbandale, Iowa. [...]
Parrish’s willingness to go public against his former employer and political mentor is likely to send shock waves through Minnesota GOP circles, where both he and his attorney are well-known figures.
Some things wear well, others wear out. Rick Perry falls into Category 2. He doesn’t wear well, and between making us point and laugh and cringe, he wore us out when he ran in 2012.
But that won’t stop him from trying again. Get out the popcorn. As you can see from the video, he was on on “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer.
Perry:
“Our legislature will be leaving in approximately 55 days. … At that particular point in time, I’ll sit down with friends and family and make a decision about 2016.”
Blitzer:
“So you’re obviously open to that notion?”
Perry:
“Indeed.”
It’s a good thing Ricky P wasn’t asked to name three reasons why he wants to run.
John Avlon has an exclusive at the Daily Beast about an ethics probe into Michele Bachmann’s campaign, allegations that her people deny, of course. After all, Team Family Values would never do anything improper. That would go against every principle for which they stand, under God, with liberty and justice for all:
[S]he is embroiled in a litany of legal proceedings related to her rolling disaster of a presidential campaign—including a Office of Congressional Ethics investigation into campaign improprieties that has not previously been reported.
The Daily Beast has learned that federal investigators are now interviewing former Bachmann campaign staffers nationwide about alleged intentional campaign-finance violations. [...]
Former staffers tell The Daily Beast that investigators have allegedly asked about allegations of improper transfer of funds and under-the-table payments actions by Bachmann’s presidential campaign…
The Bachmann campaign’s national political director, Guy Short, and her onetime Iowa campaign chairman, state Sen. Kent Sorenson are the focus. Investigators want to know what she knew about their actions and when she knew it.
Avlon describes Bachmann’s predicament as a “slow-motion crash for an unusually irresponsible politician.” For example, her “Tea Party Caucus has been inactive for several months.”
One longtime Bachmann senior staffer made this painful observation: “Some people make a splash and some people belly flop. She belly flopped. And you don’t get a second chance at the diving board.”
Avlon sums it up this way:
In the end, it seems the only people who profited from Bachmann’s face-plant of a presidential campaign were the consultants. The only lasting legacy has been the lawsuits. While junior staffers say they still haven’t been paid, Guy Short’s C&M Strategies received a total of $157,000 from MichelePAC between January 2011 and July 2012, when Bachmann was primarily preoccupied with presidential pursuits, according to FEC filings.
Now the prospect of a House Ethics Committee investigation into Bachmann’s presidential campaign adds an additional indignity to the self-inflicted disasters of her political career… [T]he people who know Bachmann best respect her the least.
He gives a few examples and then some. Please read the entire post here.
The fact is that Michele Bachmann is a lying, delusional crackpot who still can’t pronounce the word “United” (she says “Unine-ed States”), as you can see in this video:
The entire segment is here and is not embeddable.
But that’s not important now. What is important is, per Roll Call, this:
[T]he fact is Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Caucus has been inactive for several months.
The caucus, much heralded and well-covered by the press when it was created in 2010 as a congressional conduit for the national movement of the same name, has not announced a public meeting since July, and the group’s Twitter account has been silent since September.
Their spokesman, Dan Kotman, claims they’ve been meeting with activists “behind the scenes” and will become more active again during the current session of Congress. He also said they’ve been doing a lot of listening. Theirs is not to talk, but to listen, says he. Given Bachmann’s propensity for tea-babble, you could have fooled us.
Kotman also blamed redistricting. He says members have to get used to their new territories.
He should have blamed his fellow tea partiers:
In a CNN/ORC Poll published this month, 48 percent of respondents said they have an unfavorable view of the tea party movement.
Their inactivity is just as well, since nobody is paying much attention to them anyway.
Need a lift? Tired of all the political bickering? In the mood for a little upbeat news? Well, wait no more.
Ahem…
Fox News had its worst prime time TV ratings in twelve years, since back in 2001. HuffPo:
…Fox News had its worst prime time ratings in the coveted 25-54 demographic since August 2001, and its lowest total day ratings since June 2008.
There now, wasn’t that fun?
It gets better. Per Politico, The Rachel Maddow Show was the only non-Fox News program to enter the top 10:
And “The Rachel Maddow Show” topped CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” this month, and also ranked number one among the 18-34 demo.
HuffPo:
…and if Maddow were to continue creeping up the list, it would mean a real sea change. Overall, MSNBC… was the only cable news channel to grow its ratings from 2012.
Poor Fox. On 3, let me hear as insincere an “Awwww” as you can muster up. Ready?
1… 2… 3!
In their post McCain: Binational Same-Sex Couples Are ‘Not Of Paramount Importance’ To Immigration Reform, Think Progress included this gem of a Little Lindsey quote:
When one half of a couple is an American citizen and the other is not, even if they are *gasp!* gay, they still love each other and need to be together, just as all families do. That’s called — say it with me, Senator– a re-la-tion-ship.
Try to process this, Linds: Same-sex couples are family who care deeply for one another. Deal:
There are “at least 28,500 same-sex couples in the United States in which one partner is a U.S. citizen and the other is not, and 11,500 same-sex couples where neither partner is a U.S. citizen,” the Williams Institute estimates.
But according to Graham, an amendment that would provide for binational gay and lesbian couples = taxpayer funded abortion. If that didn’t make sense to you, then you are a reasonable, sane, caring person.
Oh, now I get it! This must be an example of how the GOP is trying to soften their message in order appeal to more voters! See: Karl Rove said to the GOP: Just don’t *sound* intolerant, Bobby Jindal said, “If we want people to like us, we have to like them first,” and Yep, still a pig, Reince Priebus.
Family values my ass.
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