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Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:27 pm
8 juicy allegations from the new Bachmann “tell-all” book
1) “She fired a staffer with seven children, the eighth on the way, on Christmas Eve.”
2) During Bachmann’s 2006 campaign, Andy Parrish, her former chief of staff who is now testifying against her (the guy he replaced learned he was fired via Politico), allegedly grew concerned with “her reliance on World Net Daily, which he thought just a little too tin foil hat, even for him.”
3) “There was an intercessory prayer group formed during the presidential campaign for the sole purpose of praying for Michele Bachmann and, at times, her partial, specific intentions.” The wife of Bachmann’s pastor was in charge and it included a number of “well-known and powerful pastors,” including the daughter of televangelist Kenneth Copeland.
4) Tension between Bachmann’s secular and evangelical worlds led many to question Bachamnn’s faith and prompted a “faith intervention.”
5) Many Iowa workers allegedly never got paid after the campaign folded, but they were all asked to sign nondisclosure agreements by the lawyers Bachmann retained at Patton Boggs, a powerful D.C. law firm. The NDAs “came well after the work was performed, were never an original term or condition of employment and the signing of them the only fast and ready way to be paid, without interest of course.”
6) Even as workers were asked to cut their pay in half in October 2011, one of the out-of-state consultants — many of whom were reportedly hired on the recommendation of Republican operator Charlie Black — cut himself two $40,000 checks.
7) Bachmann knew about the theft of a home-schooling mailing list from a volunteer, “Bachmannistan” alleges, but didn’t say anything even after the volunteer was kicked off the board of directors of her home schooling organization. Finally, at the campaign party on the night of the Iowa Caucus, Bachmann told the volunteer, that, “yeah,” Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson stole the list (he is also under investigation in Iowa).
8) Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, devised a test to determine whether she should run for president:
“He instructed her to get off of their bed and go to the full-length mirror in the bedroom. ‘If you can look at yourself and say it, then you are ready to run and you should,’ he explained. She listened, nodding internally and then got off the bed. Traversing the bedroom, she stood in front of the mirror.
Said Michele Bachmann, looking at herself: ‘I am President of the United States of America.’”

1) “She fired a staffer with seven children, the eighth on the way, on Christmas Eve.”
2) During Bachmann’s 2006 campaign, Andy Parrish, her former chief of staff who is now testifying against her (the guy he replaced learned he was fired via Politico), allegedly grew concerned with “her reliance on World Net Daily, which he thought just a little too tin foil hat, even for him.”
3) “There was an intercessory prayer group formed during the presidential campaign for the sole purpose of praying for Michele Bachmann and, at times, her partial, specific intentions.” The wife of Bachmann’s pastor was in charge and it included a number of “well-known and powerful pastors,” including the daughter of televangelist Kenneth Copeland.
4) Tension between Bachmann’s secular and evangelical worlds led many to question Bachamnn’s faith and prompted a “faith intervention.”
5) Many Iowa workers allegedly never got paid after the campaign folded, but they were all asked to sign nondisclosure agreements by the lawyers Bachmann retained at Patton Boggs, a powerful D.C. law firm. The NDAs “came well after the work was performed, were never an original term or condition of employment and the signing of them the only fast and ready way to be paid, without interest of course.”
6) Even as workers were asked to cut their pay in half in October 2011, one of the out-of-state consultants — many of whom were reportedly hired on the recommendation of Republican operator Charlie Black — cut himself two $40,000 checks.
7) Bachmann knew about the theft of a home-schooling mailing list from a volunteer, “Bachmannistan” alleges, but didn’t say anything even after the volunteer was kicked off the board of directors of her home schooling organization. Finally, at the campaign party on the night of the Iowa Caucus, Bachmann told the volunteer, that, “yeah,” Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson stole the list (he is also under investigation in Iowa).
8) Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, devised a test to determine whether she should run for president:
“He instructed her to get off of their bed and go to the full-length mirror in the bedroom. ‘If you can look at yourself and say it, then you are ready to run and you should,’ he explained. She listened, nodding internally and then got off the bed. Traversing the bedroom, she stood in front of the mirror.
Said Michele Bachmann, looking at herself: ‘I am President of the United States of America.’”
