Bachmann re-election run eased other campaign debt

December 7, 2012 @ 1:04 pm


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Michele Bachmann has dramatically reduced what had been a more than $1 million debt from her failed presidential run and she has her congressional re-election effort to thank for it.

New campaign finance reports released Thursday show the Minnesota congresswoman repaid more than $750,000 in presidential campaign debt by transferring it from her congressional account. More than $500,000 of that was shipped over between late October and late November.

Bachmann, a Republican, is one of the most prolific fundraisers in Congress. She narrowly won a fourth term in November over Democrat Jim Graves.

The congressional run was her second 2012 campaign. She waged a brief run for the GOP presidential nomination but dropped out after a poor showing in Iowa's leadoff caucuses.

Her debt now stands at about $170,000.


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  • CH wrote...
    I know this one flies on a . . . .
    December 7, 2012 1:45 pm
    broomstick. She can fly on mine.
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  • longwayhome wrote...
    If she wasn't attractive
    December 7, 2012 9:07 pm
    She would be a nanny or a house cleaner.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @longwayhome
    December 8, 2012 11:39 am
    Attractive? Bachman attractive? Yuck. I must need glasses, because I don't see her as attractive. I see here as 'not ugly' which is a number of steps below attractive, and a few steps above 'makes me gag'. But that's just my own opinion.
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  • Hayduke wrote...
    I'd like to bachman turner over(drive)
    December 8, 2012 12:17 am
    She is indeed pretty, even if she's getting a bit long in the tooth. Like Sarah palin, that's the only redeeming quality she has that she can sell to voters. it's like people vote for either of them because of their intellect.

    But I still say hubby Marcus is light in the loafers.

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  • TeeJay wrote...
    Sexists
    December 8, 2012 8:25 am
    Shame on the sexists CH, longwayhome, and Hayduke. Let's see them write the same thing about any female democrat politician. Won't happen. Morons.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @teejay
    December 8, 2012 11:39 am
    Oh yes it does.
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