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demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
Mon May 14, 2012, 07:51 PM May 2012

Bachmann fundraising whopper...she has totally lost what was left of her pea-brain [View all]

In several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased “liberal judges” redrew her congressional district “in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama.” The truth is that only two of the five judges were Democratic appointees, and Bachmann’s Minnesota district has become even more Republican than it was before.

It’s true that a bipartisan panel of judges redrew district lines and placed the town where Bachmann lives in an abutting district represented by a Democrat. But she has chosen to again run in the 6th District, the one she has represented since 2007. And she doesn’t even have to move to do that.

Bachmann has sent out several appeals that carry the same message:

http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann-fundraising-whopper-202734700.html

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