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Ex-Bachmann aide alleges campaign finance violations [W:26]

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Ex-Bachmann aide alleges campaign finance violations | StarTribune.com


Bachmann is the gift from the tea party that just keeps on giving.

First we learned that Bachmann stiffed five staffers, refusing to pay them unless they sign a nondisclosure agreement that prohibits them them from talking to any reporters or police about any "unethical, immoral, or criminal activity" they may have witnessed during the campaign. Then, because leaking that story did not motivate Bachmann to open the checkbook and just pay bills, her former field coordinator, Peter Waldron, alleged that Bachmann was under the "Rasputin-like" mind control of her debate coach to the point of his forbidding Bachmann's husband from sleeping in the same room with her on the campaign trail (which, as we all know, must have been devastating for Marcus!).

In today's Bachmann soap opera, Waldron has brought a complaint against Bachmann with the FEC alleging illegal campaign activities by the woman with the spine of steel.

I'm betting she's weird enough to win the GOP presidential nomination next time around.
 
i find that exceptionally unlikely.

I don't know, she's got a spine of steel, as she constantly points out, and she's the darling of the religious right. By 2016, only fundamentalists, who think the earth is 6000 years old, will remain in the GOP. They are the only true conservatives and they know it!
 
I don't know, she's got a spine of steel, as she constantly points out, and she's the darling of the religious right. By 2016, only fundamentalists, who think the earth is 6000 years old, will remain in the GOP. They are the only true conservatives and they know it!

She'll never get the nomination. She's too bat**** crazy, even for the hardcore.
 
I don't know, she's got a spine of steel, as she constantly points out, and she's the darling of the religious right. By 2016, only fundamentalists, who think the earth is 6000 years old, will remain in the GOP. They are the only true conservatives and they know it!

You really do shine on these debate threads don't you?
 
You really do shine on these debate threads don't you?

Debate threads? He doesn't debate. He bloviates. I've tried to engage him in debate numerous times. He just avoids me and continues to post in the thread like a counterpoint was never waged against his hackery.
 
I love how the little lefties enjoy stories by "former" staffers. They hate them when they work
for the candidate and once they extract their ounce of flesh for not getting their way they are
hero's touted out like Gods by the lefties.
 
She'll never get the nomination. She's too bat**** crazy, even for the hardcore.

My friend, welcome to the new Tea Party Occupied Republican Party. The Real Republican Party.®

Her craziness is a plus for the fundies and knownothings that make up the GOP base.
 
I love how the little lefties enjoy stories by "former" staffers. They hate them when they work
for the candidate and once they extract their ounce of flesh for not getting their way they are
hero's touted out like Gods by the lefties.

I love how a thread about the weirdness of another Tea party politician somehow become about me in the eyes of tea party supported like Cal.

NEXT!
 
I love how a thread about the weirdness of another Tea party politician somehow become about me in the eyes of tea party supported like Cal.

NEXT!

That's why you're here in the first place. You want attention.
 
Debate threads? He doesn't debate. He bloviates. I've tried to engage him in debate numerous times. He just avoids me and continues to post in the thread like a counterpoint was never waged against his hackery.

Na, he’s a troll, persistently antagonizing in an attempt to get one worked up and especially astute in using the standard left wing memes which have consistently been soundly refuted.…pitiful really.
 
All the personal insults and metaposting by the tea party types only shows how discredited conservatism in. Bachmann stiffs her staff and now faces campaign violation charges, and all the conservatives can do is talk about me.

More evidence that conservatism is morally bankrupt.
 
I love how a thread about the weirdness of another Tea party politician somehow become about me in the eyes of tea party supported like Cal.

NEXT!

And Bachman is somehow different that say...President Obama?...

Obama 2008 campaign fined $375,000 - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com

I especially like this line:


one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.

Seems Bachman fits right in...unless of course you are including BHO in the tea party...:lamo
 
All the personal insults and metaposting by the tea party types only shows how discredited conservatism in. Bachmann stiffs her staff and now faces campaign violation charges, and all the conservatives can do is talk about me.

More evidence that conservatism is morally bankrupt.
This isn't the only thread like this bro. Maybe you should visit The Basement sometime and see how many threads there are about you. None are flattering, I can assure you of that. And none are "all in good fun". People are just tired of seeing your hackish threads/posts man. That's all it is. If Bachmann stiffed her staff, fine, she sucks. The issue is that you never point out any wrong doing by any liberal/democrat. And you you know as well as I do there is plenty subject matter to choose from.
 
Bachmann didn't pay her staff. Bachmann faces a serious charge of campaign violations from her own staffers.

See the difference?

Yeah, I see the difference…I know what I’m talking about and you don’t!...You offer an accusation yet to be adjudicated by the FEC. I on the other hand offer evidence of an action that has reached decision and fines were levied…how does it go...innocent until PROVEN guilty...

See the difference?
 
Bachmann didn't pay her staff. Bachmann faces a serious charge of campaign violations from her own staffers.

See the difference?
There is no difference. It's all mismanagement of funds. Maybe if you view this through a partisan lens its' different......well, I guess we all know the answer to that.
 
This isn't the only thread like this bro. Maybe you should visit The Basement sometime and see how many threads there are about you. None are flattering, I can assure you of that. And none are "all in good fun". People are just tired of seeing your hackish threads/posts man. That's all it is. If Bachmann stiffed her staff, fine, she sucks. The issue is that you never point out any wrong doing by any liberal/democrat. And you you know as well as I do there is plenty subject matter to choose from.

Looks like the topic has embarrassed you. Good.

Meanwhile, Bachmann has stiffed her own staffers, who now allege campaign violation (and they should know). More evidence of the moral meltdown of the tea party.
 
There is no difference. It's all mismanagement of funds. Maybe if you view this through a partisan lens its' different......well, I guess we all know the answer to that.

Did Obama stiff his staffers? Did Bachmann?

Does Obama face serious campaign violation allegations with the FEC? Does Bachmann?

Answer these questions honestly and the difference will become apparent to you.
 
Did Obama stiff his staffers? Did Bachmann?

Does Obama face serious campaign violation allegations with the FEC? Does Bachmann?

Answer these questions honestly and the difference will become apparent to you.
I guess the word serious is subjective.......
 
Yeah, I see the difference…I know what I’m talking about and you don’t!...You offer an accusation yet to be adjudicated by the FEC. I on the other hand offer evidence of an action that has reached decision and fines were levied…how does it go...innocent until PROVEN guilty...

See the difference?

Nobody said it was adjudicated, so calm down.

Bachmann has stiffed her staffers -- that's an undeniable fact. She made payment contingent on them signing a nondisclosure statement barring them from bringing allegations of violations. Not only is that illegal on its face, it suggests an attempt to cover up.

And now a complaint has been brough by the very people closest to her.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's Bachmann
 
All the personal insults and metaposting by the tea party types only shows how discredited conservatism in. Bachmann stiffs her staff and now faces campaign violation charges, and all the conservatives can do is talk about me.

More evidence that conservatism is morally bankrupt.
Actually, it is not evidence of that at all. What it is evidence of is the fact that you dont understand what 'morally bankrupt' even means.
 
I guess the word serious is subjective.......

Well, she's the one who tried to get her staffers to sign away their rights to report her for violations. Kind of suspicious. If Obama did that, you'd be apoplectic and Limbaugh would need more Oxycontin than usual.
 
Actually, it is not evidence of that at all. What it is evidence of is the fact that you dont understand what 'morally bankrupt' even means.

I didn't stiff any staffers, or try to strongarm them into signing papers to prevent them from reporting crimes and I'm not facing a complaint for campaign finance violation with the FEC.


But tea partier Bachmann in. I sense a pattern forming!
 
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