Bachmann Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year

[No1]

Bachmann Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year

By GERRY MULLANY
Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who made an ill-fated run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, announced Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.

She made the announcement just six months after being re-elected in what was her most challenging Congressional campaign since she was first elected to the House in 2006. Her announcement also comes as her former presidential campaign faces inquiries into its fund-raising activities.

“I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth Congressional term,” she said in a video on her campaign Web site. “This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff,” she added.

Mrs. Bachmann is known for her strong anti-abortion stance and adherence to Tea Party values but her presidential campaign was marked by frequent stumbles and her candidacy failed to catch fire in a crowded field of candidates that included Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Herman Cain, who all eventually lost to Mitt Romney.

In her congressional race last year, Mrs. Bachmann won re-election by just 4,200 votes out of 356,000 votes cast, beating the hotelier Jim Graves, who was greatly outspent. Mr. Graves recently announced that he would seek the seat again.

“My decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected to Congress,” she said. “If I ran I would again defeat the individual who I defeated last year.”

Her announcement comes as the Office of Congressional Ethics looks into claims by Mrs. Bachmann’s former campaign aides that she might have improperly used money raised by one of her House-affiliated political action committees to help her presidential bid in the run-up to the Iowa presidential caucuses in January 2012. She came in sixth in that race, even though she campaigned heavily in the state. The defeat led her to pull out of the race the next day.

Though her presidential bid initially excited Tea Party supporters, Mrs. Bachmann would later find herself upstaged by conservative opponents like Mr. Cain and Mr. Santorum, and she was prone to misstatements, including saying the vaccine against the human papillomavirus was linked to “mental retardation.”

But her campaign was not without impact. Her victory in the Ames, Iowa, straw poll in the summer of 2011 forced Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, to drop out of the contest early, after he did poorly in his neighboring state.

In her video announcement, Mrs. Bachmann did not rule out returning to politics in the future.

“There is no future option or opportunity, be it directly in the political area or otherwise, that I won’t be giving serious consideration if it can help save and protect our great nation for future generations,” she said.

She also said she expected “the mainstream liberal media to put a detrimental spin” on her decision not to seek re-election, calling its attention to her political fortunes “a true compliment of my public service effectiveness.”

Mrs. Bachmann had been a largely obscure member of Congress from Minnesota before the emergence of the Tea Party in 2010. She seized on the movement to brand herself a national voice of conservatives and become the leader of the “Tea Party Caucus” in the House.

In January of 2011, Mrs. Bachmann delivered her own, unofficial “Tea Party” response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. She mocked the president’s fiscal policies and urged a repeal of the president’s health care plan known as Obamacare. But the brief, televised response prompted comedy sketches because of its low production values and because Mrs. Bachmann appeared to be looking off to the side throughout her remarks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/u...-wont-seek-re-election-next-year.html?hp&_r=0

 

[the next guy]

na na na na hey hey hey goodbye!

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I heard some a$$hole subbing for Rush Limbaugh say she could've been the next Margaret Thatcher earlier today.

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

imma miss her crazy ass moments but fukk that she was a woman with power

Spoiler

can she at least get a tv show or something though

 

[superunknown23]

Bachmann, Allen West and Jim DeMint gone now...

 

[Slim]

She narrowly won her last re-election campaign. She would have gotten dusted as her popularity continues to wane the more and more she speaks.

She'll go on to some cushy job on Fox and write books and cake off the fringe right followers she still has.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Her husband probably pressured her, he just wants to live his life as a homo in peace and relative obscurity.

 

[superunknown23]

Bachmann's 8 years in Congress...

Bills Sponsored: 58

Referred to Committee (aka: went nowhere): 53

Reported by Committee (Got out of committee): 1
H.R. 850 (112th): To facilitate a proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and Scenic River, and for other purposes.

Agreed To (Simple Resolution): 3
H.Res. 373 (111th): Expressing support for designation of the month of September as “National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month"
H.Res. 923 (110th): Recognizing the State of Minnesota’s 150th anniversary.
H.Res. 789 (110th): Honoring public child welfare agencies, nonprofit organizations and private entities providing services for foster children.

Passed House: 1
H.R. 45: To repeal Obamacare (this month)

Signed Into Law: 0

Salary (from taxpayers): $1.4 million, plus lifetime pension and benefits.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Damn. I would love to hear her start an investigation over this
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjRsD6cg3gI[/ame]

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

She'll make more money on Fox plus she's got her lifetime pension so I doubt she's truly sad.....with that said, fukk that crazy bytch

 

[bmoxover]

Bachmann's 8 years in Congress...

Bills Sponsored: 58

Referred to Committee (aka: went nowhere): 53

Reported by Committee (Got out of committee): 1
H.R. 850 (112th): To facilitate a proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and Scenic River, and for other purposes.

Agreed To (Simple Resolution): 3
H.Res. 373 (111th): Expressing support for designation of the month of September as “National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month"
H.Res. 923 (110th): Recognizing the State of Minnesota’s 150th anniversary.
H.Res. 789 (110th): Honoring public child welfare agencies, nonprofit organizations and private entities providing services for foster children.

Passed House: 1
H.R. 45: To repeal Obamacare (this month)

Signed Into Law: 0

Salary (from taxpayers): $1.4 million, plus lifetime pension and benefits.

 

[the cac mamba]

Bachmann's 8 years in Congress...

Bills Sponsored: 58

Referred to Committee (aka: went nowhere): 53

Reported by Committee (Got out of committee): 1
H.R. 850 (112th): To facilitate a proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and Scenic River, and for other purposes.

Agreed To (Simple Resolution): 3
H.Res. 373 (111th): Expressing support for designation of the month of September as “National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month"
H.Res. 923 (110th): Recognizing the State of Minnesota’s 150th anniversary.
H.Res. 789 (110th): Honoring public child welfare agencies, nonprofit organizations and private entities providing services for foster children.

Passed House: 1
H.R. 45: To repeal Obamacare (this month)

Signed Into Law: 0

 

[SAJ!!]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQLQ1Rc_Js[/ame]

:jayhaha:

 

[88m3]

terrible human being

 

[cheek100]

dramatic exit career move
she'll be bach