Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's 6th district | |
In office January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Mark Kennedy |
Succeeded by | Tom Emmer |
Member of the Minnesota Senate | |
In office January 3, 2001 – January 2, 2007 | |
Preceded by | Gary Laidig |
Succeeded by | Ray Vandeveer |
Constituency |
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Personal details | |
Born | Michele Marie Amble April 6, 1956 Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. |
Political party | Republican (since 1978) |
Other political affiliations | Democratic (before 1978) |
Spouse |
Marcus Bachmann (m. 1978) |
Children | 5 |
Education | |
Michele Marie Bachmann (/ˈbɑːxmən/; née Amble; born April 6, 1956) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 until 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she was a candidate for president of the United States in the 2012 election, but lost the Republican nomination to Mitt Romney.
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann moved to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, as a teenager. She graduated from Oral Roberts University's O. W. Coburn School of Law and the William & Mary Law School. After graduating, she briefly worked in tax law for the Internal Revenue Service before becoming a stay-at-home mother. She became involved in local politics, specifically around education.
Bachmann formally entered politics in 2000, when she was elected to the Minnesota Senate. In 2006, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After her unsuccessful run for president, Bachmann was elected to another term in the House in 2012, before announcing her retirement before the 2014 election.
Since January 1, 2021, Bachmann has been dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University.[1]
Early life, education, and early career
Bachmann was born Michele Marie Amble on April 6, 1956, in
In
A member of ORU's final graduating class, she was also part of a group of faculty, staff, and students who moved ORU's library to what is now Regent University.[18][19] In 1988, she received an LL.M. degree in tax law from William & Mary Law School.[20][21] From 1988 to 1993, she worked as a tax litigation attorney for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).[5][22] However, she did not take the American Bar Association exam and never got a license to become a private attorney.[6] Bachmann left the IRS to become a full-time mother when her fourth child was born.[6][23]
Early political career
Activism
Bachmann grew up in a Democratic family and has said she became a Republican during her senior year at Winona State University.[8] She told the Star Tribune that she was reading Gore Vidal's 1973 novel Burr and that Vidal "was kind of mocking the Founding Fathers and I just thought—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.'"[8] While still a registered Democrat, she and her then-fiancé, Marcus, were motivated to join the anti-abortion movement after watching Francis Schaeffer's 1976 Christian documentary film How Should We Then Live?[21] They prayed outside clinics and engaged in sidewalk interference,[16][21] an activity in which anti-abortion activists attempt to persuade women entering clinics not to get abortions.[24] She has since made statements supportive of sidewalk interference.[25] Bachmann supported Jimmy Carter for president in 1976, and together with her husband, Bachmann worked on Carter's campaign.[26] During Carter's presidency, she became disappointed with his approach to public policy, support for legalized abortion, and economic decisions she held responsible for increased gas prices. In the 1980 presidential election, she voted for Ronald Reagan and worked for his campaign.[21][27]
Bachmann's political activism gained media attention at an anti-abortion protest in 1991.
Minnesota Senate
Before launching her career for the
During her career as state senator, she was known for her conservatism,[6] particularly due to her opposition to abortion and gay marriage.[2][23] Star Tribune has described her as one of the Senate's most conservative members during her tenure.[8] She also authored a Taxpayer Bill of Rights.[6] Bachmann and Mary Liz Holberg, a Minnesota Representative, proposed a constitutional amendment that would bar the state from legally recognizing same-sex marriage in November 2003.[33][34] On the day of introducing the amendments, Bachmann's lesbian stepsister came to the legislature building to listen to a hearing about the amendment.[2][6] She reintroduced the proposal in 2005; it failed when it stalled indefinitely in the Minnesota Senate Judiciary committee.[8][35] She served as assistant minority leader in charge of policy of the Senate Republican Caucus from November 2004 to July 2005, when the Republican Caucus removed her from the position.[36][37] She claimed that disagreements with Dick Day, the Republican Senate minority leader, over her anti-tax stance caused her ouster.[38]
U.S. House of Representatives
From 2007 to 2015, Bachmann represented
110th Congress
Foreign affairs
Bachmann voted "No" on a January 2007 resolution in the House of Representatives opposing President George W. Bush's plan to increase troop levels in Iraq, but called for a full hearing in advance of the troop surge, saying, "the American people deserve to hear and understand the merits of increasing U.S. troop presence in Iraq. Increased troop presence is justifiable if that measure would bring a swift conclusion to a difficult conflict."[42] She hesitated to give a firm endorsement, calling the hearings "a good first step in explaining to the American people the course toward victory in Iraq."[43] Later that year, she went to Iraq, where she said she was convinced that "the war effort is heading in the right direction."[44]
Higher education
On July 11, 2007, Bachmann voted against the College Cost Reduction and Access Act. The act raised the maximum
Bachmann said she opposed the act because "it fails students and taxpayers with gimmicks, hidden costs and poorly targeted aid. It contains no serious reform of existing programs, and it favors the costly, government-run direct lending program over nonprofit and commercial lenders."[47] The bill passed the House[47] and was signed by President Bush.[48]
Energy and environment
During the summer of 2008, as national gasoline prices rose to over $4 a gallon, Bachmann became a leading Congressional advocate for increased domestic oil and natural gas exploration in the
Bachmann rejects the overwhelming
In March 2008 Bachmann introduced H.R. 849, the
Tort reform
On June 3, 2008, President Bush signed the Credit and Debit Card Receipt Clarification Act (H.R. 4008) into law. The bipartisan bill, which Bachmann cosponsored with Congressman
Financial sector
Bachmann opposed both versions of the
Auto industry
The American auto companies approached Congress to ask for roughly $15 billion in loans to keep them operational into 2009. Bachmann criticized that bill, fearing that the initial sum of money would be followed by subsequent ones without the companies making changes to revive their business. Bachmann supported an alternative plan for American auto companies and the rest of the auto industry that would have set benchmarks for reducing their debt and renegotiating labor deals and have set up the financial assistance as interim insurance instead of a taxpayer-financed bailout.[59]
Call for a media "exposé" of alleged "anti-Americanism" of Barack Obama and members of Congress
On October 17, 2008, Bachmann gave an interview on
In response, the five Democratic members of Minnesota's congressional delegation—
Bachmann brought up the interview before business leaders and Republicans during a campaign stop in
111th Congress
Global currency
On March 26, 2009, following comments by China proposing adoption of a
2010 Census
In a June 17, 2009, interview with
Along with Congressman Ted Poe (Tex.-02), Bachmann introduced the American Community Survey Act to limit the amount of personal information the U.S. Census Bureau solicits.[75] She reiterated her belief that the census asked too many personal questions.[76]
Cap-and-Trade legislation
In March 2009 Bachmann was interviewed by the
AmeriCorps
In 2009 Bachmann became a critic of what she characterized as proposals for mandatory public service.[79] Of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, an expansion to AmeriCorps (a federal community service organization), she said in April:
It's under the guise of—quote—volunteerism. But it's not volunteers at all. It's paying people to do work on behalf of government ... I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is [sic] that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.[80]
The original bill called for an exploration of whether a mandatory public service program could be established, but the section on creating a "Congressional Commission on Civic Service" was stripped from the bill.[81]
In August 2009 Bachmann's political opponents publicized in the local media and the
Health care
Bachmann contributed to the "
On August 31, 2009, Bachmann spoke at an event in Colorado, saying of Democratic health care overhaul proposals that:
This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass.[95]
She outlined ideas for changing the health care system, including: "Erase the boundaries around every single state when it comes to health care", enabling consumers to purchase insurance across state lines; increase the use of health savings accounts and allow everyone to "take full deductibility of all medical expenses", including insurance premiums; and tort reform.[95]
Bachmann denounced the government-run health insurance
Criticism of President Obama's visit to Asia
In a November 3, 2010, interview with
112th Congress
Leadership run
After the
Bachmann's bid suffered a setback when she was passed over for the GOP's transition team on which Hensarling was placed.[102] Despite Bachmann's leading all other representatives in fundraising, a Republican aide said some "members are getting resentful of Bachmann, who they say is making the argument that you're not really a Tea Party supporter unless you support her. That's gone through the formation of the Tea Party Caucus and the formation of this candidacy of hers. It's just not so."[102] Sarah Palin, with whom Bachmann had campaigned earlier in the year, declined to endorse her leadership bid, while other Tea Party favorites, Representatives Adam Kinzinger and Tim Scott, were placed on the transition team.[102] According to some senior House staff members, the party leadership was concerned about some of Bachmann's high-profile faux pas, the high rate of turnover among her staff, and how willing she would be to advance the party's messaging rather than her own.[103]
On November 10 Bachmann released a statement ending her campaign for Conference Chair and giving Hensarling her "enthusiastic" support.[104]
Committee assignment
In 2011, House Speaker John Boehner selected Bachmann for a position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in which role she was responsible for overseeing the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.[105] Bachmann, who had not previously served on any committee concerned with foreign policy issues, requested the position,[105] which led to speculation that she was planning a presidential campaign.[105] In his 2021 memoir On the House, Boehner wrote that Bachmann had initially demanded a seat on the House Committee on Ways and Means, and that he had offered her the role on the Intelligence Committee as a compromise; Boehner described Bachmann as "a lunatic" and an example of a politician elevated by Fox News.[106]
Repeal of Dodd–Frank reform
Soon after beginning her third term, Bachmann introduced legislation to repeal the Dodd–Frank financial reform law. She said, "I'm pleased to offer a full repeal of the job-killing Dodd–Frank financial regulatory bill. Dodd–Frank grossly expanded the federal government beyond its jurisdictional boundaries. It gave Washington bureaucrats the power to interpret and enforce the legislation with little oversight. Real financial regulatory reform must deal with these lenders who were a leading cause of our economic recession. True reform must also end the bailout mind-set that was perpetuated by the last Congress." She also took issue with the law for not addressing the liabilities of the taxpayer funded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.[107] Bachmann's bill was endorsed by conservative groups such as the Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity. It gained four other Republican co-sponsors, including Representative Darrell Issa, who became the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at the start of the 112th Congress.[108] Bachmann's call for total repeal was seen as more drastic than the approach advocated by her fellow Republican Spencer Bachus, who became the House Financial Services Committee Chairman when Republicans gained the House majority. Bachus planned "to provide 'vigorous' oversight of regulators efforts to reform banking and housing ... reform Fannie and Freddie", and "dismantle pieces of [the] Dodd–Frank Act that he believes 'unnecessarily punish small businesses and community banks.'"[108] In response to Bachmann's legislation Representative Barney Frank said, "Michele Bachmann, the Club for Growth, and others in the right-wing coalition have now made their agenda for the financial sector very clear: they yearn to return to the thrilling days of yesteryear, so the loan arrangers can ride again—untrammeled by any rules restraining irresponsibility, excess, deception, and most of all, infinite leverage."[108] It was seen as unlikely that Bachmann's legislation would pass, with the Financial Times writing, "Like the Republican move to repeal healthcare reform, Ms. Bachmann's bill could be passed by the House of Representatives but be blocked by the Senate or White House."[109]
State of the Union response
Bachmann responded to Obama's 2011 State of the Union speech on the Tea Party Express website; her speech was broadcast live by
Health care
Bachmann continually called for repeal of the
In an appearance on Meet the Press on March 6 and during a March 7 interview with Sean Hannity, Bachmann claimed that the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats had hidden $105 billion in spending in the overhaul of the American Health Care System. She portrayed the Democratic leadership as timing the release of the bill's text to avoid detection of the spending. "We didn't get the bill until a literally couple of hours before we were supposed to vote on it", she said.[112] She also said the spending was split up within different portions of the bill to mask its total cost. Bachmann was told this by the conservative Heritage Foundation, which claimed to have read the tallies of the Congressional Research Service and Congressional Budget Office.
According to some reports of the costs, "about $40 billion would go to the Children's Health Insurance Program, $15 billion would go to Medicare and Medicaid innovation programs, and $9.5 billion would go to the Community Health Centers Fund."[112] As the funds are designated mandatory spending (not controlled by the annual appropriations acts), the funds would have remained even if the move to defund the reform law had succeeded.
Bachmann stated that $16 billion of the money gives Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a "slush fund ... [to do] whatever she wants with this money."[112] She called on the bills supporters to return the money, saying, "I think this deception that the president and [former House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid put forward with appropriating over $105 billion needs to be given back to the people."[113]
When asked during the Meet the Press interview if she would take back her previous comments that Obama "may have anti-American views" and that his administration had "embraced something called gangster government", Bachmann stood by her statements, saying, "I do believe that actions that have been taken by this White House—I don't take back my statements on gangster government. I think that there have been actions taken by the government that are corrupt ... I said I have very serious concerns about the president's views, and I think the president's actions in the last two years speak for themselves."[113]
In response to Bachmann's charges, Chief Deputy Democratic Whip Jan Schakowsky, who served on the House health subcommittee, pointed out that the report in question was an update of a report that came out in October 2010 and that the costs were spelled out in both the bill and the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of its cost, saying, "Michele Bachmann obviously didn't read the bill, because there was absolutely nothing hidden in that legislation." Schakowsky said the costs were not kept secret, citing the $40 billion for the Children's Health Insurance Program as an example: "There was a robust debate about whether or not that should be included, etc. So this idea of somehow, now at the last minute, there was a secret addition to some kind of funding ... is absolute nonsense."[114]
In a September 2011 Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Bachmann criticized
Muslim Brotherhood
In June–July 2012, Bachmann and several other Republican legislators[120] sent a series of letters to oversight agencies at five federal departments citing "serious security concerns" about what Bachmann has called a "deep penetration in the halls of our United States government" by the Muslim Brotherhood. They requested formal investigations into what Bachmann called "influence operations" by the Brotherhood.[121][122]
Bachmann also accused Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife, of having family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Bachmann's comments drew what The Washington Post called "fierce criticism from fellow lawmakers and religious groups."[121] In a speech on the Senate floor, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain denounced Bachmann's charges as "specious and degrading". He defended Abedin as a "hard-working and loyal servant of our country and our government" and stated "these attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit. They need to stop now."[121] House Speaker John Boehner termed Bachmann's allegations "dangerous", and other Republicans also criticized the remarks.[123] Ed Rollins, Bachmann's former campaign manager, called on her to apologize to Abedin and characterized her allegations as "extreme and dishonest."[124]
In a letter to Bachmann, her colleague Rep.
Bachmann replied that "the intention of the letters was to outline the serious national security concerns I had and ask for answers to questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical group's access to top Obama administration officials".[125][126] In a July 19 interview with radio and TV show host Glenn Beck, Bachmann repeated and expanded her allegations, accusing Ellison of having "a long record of being associated with the Council on American–Islamic Relations and with the Muslim Brotherhood".[127] Ellison replied that "I am not now, nor have I ever been, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood."[127]
113th Congress
Presidential campaign finance investigation
In 2013, Bachmann was under investigation by the
It is alleged that members of her staff made under-the-table payments, that funds were illegally transferred from her leadership PAC to pay consultants for her presidential campaign and that hidden payments were made to Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson.[130][131]
Additionally, a lawsuit was filed alleging that Bachmann and several former staffers stole and misused an Iowa homeschool group's e-mail distribution list. The trial, Heki v. Bachmann, had been set for May 14, 2014,[132] but the case was settled out of court on June 28, 2013.[133][134][135]
On July 26, 2013, the
Retirement
On May 29, 2013, Bachmann announced that she would not seek reelection to her Congressional seat in 2014.[138] In a June 2013 Fox News interview, she said she was "not going silent" and would remain involved in politics. She did not rule out a future run for office, or even the White House.[139] With her retirement from Congress, the ethics investigations against her were dropped.[140] During a December 2017 New Year's weekend interview with televangelist Jim Bakker, Bachmann said that she was considering running for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Al Franken but was awaiting "God's counsel" before deciding.[141]
David Lightman and Trevor Graff, writing for
During the
Committee assignments
- Committee on Financial Services
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Political positions
Bachmann has described herself as a "strong
In 2010, the American Conservative Union gave her a rating of 100 while the Americans for Democratic Action gave her 0.[2]
Education
Bachmann supports the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in public school science classes.[147] During a 2003 interview on the KKMS Christian radio program Talk The Walk, Bachmann said that evolution is a theory that has never been proven one way or the other.[148] She co-authored a bill (with no additional endorsements among her fellow legislators) that would require public schools to include alternative explanations for the origin of life as part of the state's public school science curricula.[149] In October 2006, Bachmann told a debate audience in St. Cloud, Minnesota, "there is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact or not ... There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design."[150] Despite this, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that evolution is real, and that intelligent design is not. Indeed, at least one news report presenting a "sampling of Bachmann's ... ludicrous or plain old false claims", stated that Bachmann's claims are untrue, and that "when the science isn't on [Bachmann's] side, she simply improvises."[151]
Bachmann has praised the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International (YCRBYCH), hailing "the group's work of sharing the gospel in public schools".[152] She appeared as a keynote speaker at their fundraisers in 2006 and 2009.[152][153][154][155] Following a 2011 controversial invocation for the Minnesota House,[156] YCRBYCH founder Bradlee Dean declared that criticisms of him and his ministry were also "intended to harm and destroy the presidential campaign of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann ... [who] previously praised and prayed for the work of my ministry".[157]
Bachmann has had a history of opposing anti-bullying legislation. In 2006, she told the Minnesota Legislature that passing an anti-bullying bill would be a waste of time. "I think for all of us, our experience in public schools is there have always been bullies", she said. "Always have been, always will be. I just don't know how we're ever going to get to the point of zero tolerance ... What does it mean? ... Will we be expecting boys to be girls?"[158]
Fiscal policy
In the Minnesota Senate, Bachmann opposed minimum wage increases.[159] In a June 2011 interview, she did not back away from her earlier proposal to eliminate the federal minimum wage, a change she said would "virtually wipe out unemployment."[160] Bachmann supports lowering taxes.[2]
In a 2001 flyer, Bachmann and Michael J. Chapman wrote that federal policies manage a centralized, state-controlled economy in the United States.
Environment
Bachmann supports increased domestic drilling of oil
Bachmann has strongly opposed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pledging at an August 2011 campaign rally, "I guarantee you the EPA will have doors locked and lights turned off and they will only be about conservation."[166] In 2007 and 2010, she actively solicited funds from the EPA on behalf of constituents in her congressional district.[167]
Social Security and Medicare phase-out
Bachmann has called for phasing out Social Security and Medicare: "what you have to do, is keep faith with the people that are already in the system... But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off."[168]
Foreign policy
Bachmann believes that the
Global economy
In a discussion about the
Bachmann told
Immigration
Bachmann believes that strengthened enforcement of immigration laws is required for the growth of the American job market. She supports amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow only the immediate family of legal immigrants (not extended family members) priority consideration in the immigration process.[173] She voted against the DREAM Act.[174] She has also said the current law does not need modification but proper enforcement.
Bachmann said, "the immigration system in the United States worked very, very well up until the mid-1960s when liberal members of Congress changed the immigration laws."[175] She has expressed support for immigration of highly skilled professionals such as chemists and engineers.[176]
Bachmann opposed the 2013 immigration reform bill, claiming that its passage would mean the end of the Republican Party. On WorldNetDaily she said, "This is President Obama's number one political agenda because he knows we will never again have a Republican president ever if amnesty goes into effect."[177]
Social issues
Same-sex marriage constitutional amendment
Bachmann supports both federal and state
In a July 2014 radio interview, Bachmann claimed that gay rights activists want to abolish age of consent laws in the United States so that adults can "prey on little children sexually."[181]
In 2020, Bachmann claimed that "transgender Black Marxists" were "seeking the overthrow of the United States and the dissolution of the traditional family."[182]
Abortion
Bachmann has identified herself as pro-life and has been endorsed in her runs for Congress by the
Federal-backed home loans
According to The Washington Post, in 2008 Bachmann may have taken advantage of a federal program for a home loan, then called for dismantling the program, though the Post noted that the public and other members of Congress have taken advantage of such loans despite seeing reasons to criticize them.[186] When asked about it, she said: "This is the problem. It is almost impossible to buy a home in this country today without the federal government being involved".[187]
Birtherism
While Bachmann denied being part of the
Donald Trump
Bachmann vocally supported then-President Donald Trump, saying in 2017 that he "has had the courage and the fortitude to stand up where other Republicans wouldn't dare to stand up."[190] She expressed support for Trump's Executive Order 13769, which banned refugees from six majority-Muslim countries.[191] In 2019, she was one of the signatories that criticized an op-ed in Christianity Today that called for Trump to be removed from office.[5]
In December 2020, after the presidential election, Bachmann posted a video online praying for a Trump second term. Her prayer specifically called out the contested election results in Georgia, saying:
Lord, would you deliver these races in Georgia? O Father, would you deliver various local and state races, Father, that they aren't stolen? Would you give us a true vote? And, O God, I personally ask, from myself, Michele Bachmann, Lord, would you allow Donald Trump to have a second term as president of the United States?[192]
Political campaigns
2006 congressional campaign
Bachmann won her Congressional seat in the
The 6th District's representative since 2001, Mark Kennedy, announced in late 2005 that he would run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mark Dayton. Bachmann said, "God then called me to run" for the U.S. House seat, and that she and her husband fasted for three days to be more sure.[193]
According to Bloomberg.com,
During a debate televised by WCCO-TV on October 28, 2006, news reporter Pat Kessler quoted a story that appeared in the
In early July 2006, Bachmann received a fundraising visit from Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.[197] On July 21, Karl Rove visited Minnesota to raise funds for her election.[198] In August, President Bush was the keynote speaker at her congressional fundraiser, which raised about $500,000.[199] Bachmann also received fundraising support from Vice President Dick Cheney.[200] The National Republican Congressional Committee put nearly $3 million into the race, for electronic and direct-mail ads against Wetterling, significantly more than the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent on Wetterling's behalf. On November 7, Bachmann won the election with 50% of the vote to Wetterling's 42% and Binkowski's 8%.[201]
2008 congressional campaign
In 2008 Bachmann was reelected, defeating DFL and Independence Party nominee Elwyn Tinklenberg with 46.4% of the vote to Tinklenberg's 43.4%.[202] Because Tinklenberg was running as a DFL member in the Democratic primary, Bob Anderson was able to run in the Independence Party primary unopposed, despite not having that party's endorsement.[clarification needed] Anderson received 10% of the vote.
2010 congressional campaign
In 2010 Bachmann was challenged by DFL nominee Tarryl Clark and Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson. With more than $8.5 million, Bachmann spent more than any other House of Representative candidate, although Clark was able to raise $4 million, one of the largest fundraising efforts in the nation for a U.S. House challenger.[203] On November 2, 2010, Bachmann defeated Clark, 52% to 40%.
2012 presidential campaign
In early 2011, amid substantial speculation, Bachmann announced her candidacy for president. She participated in the second Republican presidential debate, in New Hampshire, on June 13, 2011, and during the debate announced that she had filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) earlier that day to become a candidate for the nomination.[204] Bachmann formally announced her candidacy for the nomination on June 27, 2011, during an appearance in Waterloo, Iowa,[205] her birth city.
Bachmann won the
2012 congressional campaign
On January 25, 2012, Bachmann announced that she would run for reelection for her seat in Congress.[209]
According to Politico.com, as of July 2012 Bachmann had "raised close to $15 million" for the 2012 election, a figure it called "astounding ... more than some Senate candidates will collect this year."[210] From July to the end of September, Bachmann raised $4.5 million. This amount put her ahead of all other members of Congress (including Allen West who was in second place with $4 million) for the third quarter. Bachmann said she was "humbled by the enormous outpouring of grassroots support for my campaign focused on keeping America the most secure and prosperous nation in the world."
Despite a more favorable district Bachmann won reelection only narrowly, receiving just 4,298 more votes than her DFL challenger, Jim Graves.[211]
Electoral history
Local elections
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann | 4,159 | 60.1 | |
Republican
|
Gary Laidig
|
2,760 | 39.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann | 25,833 | 54.6 | |
Democratic
|
Ted Thompson | 21,474 | 42.9 | |
Independence
|
Lyno Sullivan | 2,714 | 5.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann (incumbent) | 2,164 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann (incumbent) | 21,159 | 54.2 | |
Democratic
|
Jane Krentz | 17,828 | 45.7 |
Congressional elections
2006
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann | 151,248 | 50.1 | -3.9 | |
Democratic
|
Patty Wetterling | 127,144 | 42.1 | -3.9 | |
Independence
|
John Binkowski
|
23,557 | 7.80 | +7.80 |
2008
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann (incumbent) | 19,127 | 85.9 | |
Republican
|
Aubrey Immelman | 3,134 | 14.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann (incumbent) | 187,817 | 46.4 | -3.6 | |
Democratic
|
Elwyn Tinklenberg | 175,786 | 43.4 | +1.3 | |
Independence
|
Bob Anderson | 40,643 | 10.0 | +2.2 |
2010
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann (incumbent) | 159,476 | 52.5 | +6.1 | |
Democratic
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Tarryl Clark | 120,846 | 39.8 | -3.6 | |
Independence
|
Bob Anderson | 17,698 | 5.8 | -4.2 | |
Independent
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Aubrey Immelman | 5,490 | 1.8 |
2012
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican
|
Michele Bachmann (incumbent) | 179,241 | 50.5 | -2.0 | |
Democratic
|
Jim Graves | 174,944 | 49.3 | +9.5 |
Autobiography
In November 2011 Bachmann published her autobiography, Core of Conviction, in which she outlined the events and people who have shaped her values and beliefs. The book describes her break with the Democratic Party. "It was in the perilous fires of the Carter administration that my ideology was forged," she wrote. "In the seventies, Carter taught me what I was against, and then in the eighties, Reagan taught me what I was for." Reflecting on her role as a Tea Party leader, she elaborated, "I once said that the Tea Party represents 90 percent of Americans. I now realize that I misspoke. I should have said 100 percent, because I believe that nearly all Americans retain faith in the ordered liberty that the Constitution offers."[222][223][224]
Personal life
Family
In 1978, as Michele Amble, she married Marcus Bachmann, now a clinical therapist with a
Bachmann and her husband have also provided foster care to 23 other children,[79][230] all of whom were teenage girls. The Bachmanns were licensed from 1992 to 2000 to handle up to three foster children at a time, with the last arriving in 1998. The Bachmanns began by providing short-term care for girls with eating disorders who were patients in a University of Minnesota program. Their home was legally defined as a treatment home, with a daily reimbursement rate per child from the state. Some girls stayed a few months, others more than a year.[23]
Bachmann is a former beauty pageant contestant.[231]
Citizenship
In May 2012 it was reported that Marcus Bachmann had registered for Swiss citizenship, which, under Swiss nationality law, would make Michele and their children Swiss citizens too.[232] Within two days of the first reports of Bachmann's dual citizenship,[233] Michele Bachmann announced that she had written to the Swiss consulate to renounce her Swiss citizenship.[234]
Religion
Bachmann was an Evangelical Lutheran.[2][5] She was raised in "a family of Norwegian Lutheran Democrats"[235] and was a longtime member of Salem Lutheran Church (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) in Stillwater. She and her husband withdrew their membership on June 21, 2011, just before she officially began her presidential campaign. They had not attended the church for over two years.[236][237] In 2011, the Bachmanns began attending Rockpoint Church in Lake Elmo, member of Evangelical Free Church of America.[238]
Bachmann has cited theologian
According to her tax returns, Bachmann was director and chair of the Family Research Council, an evangelical think tank and activist group.[244]
Businesses
Bachmann and her husband own a
In personal financial disclosure reports for 2006 through 2009, Bachmann reported earning $32,500 to $105,000[249] from a farm that was owned at the time by her ailing father-in-law, Paul Bachmann. The farm received $260,000 in federal crop and disaster subsidies between 1995 and 2008.[254] Bachmann said that in 2006–2009, her husband acted as a trustee of the farm for his dying father and so, out of "an abundance of caution", she claimed the farm as income in financial disclosures, though it was her in-laws who profited from the farm during that period.[255]
See also
- United States congressional delegations from Minnesota
- List of United States representatives from Minnesota
- Women in the United States House of Representatives
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Sen. Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, is sponsoring a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Bachmann says voters, not the courts, should be the ones to decide the definition of marriage.
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External links
- Michele Bachmann at Curlie
- Politifact.com File on Michele Bachmann
- Michele Bachmann at Minnesota Legislators Past & Present
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- 2008 campaign finance data from OpenSecrets.org
- 2010 campaign finance data from OpenSecrets.org