Michelle Bachmann has turned into quite a hot topic here in the netroots after her disgraceful performance on Hardball that that you can watch for yourself here.
It’s hard to even begin on how horrifying that McCarthyesque, hateful interview was. But a lot of us Minnesotans have known about Michelle Bachmann and her hateful, extreme ways for years. Thankfully we’ve got a real shot at beating her this year, and you can help send her and her hateful brand of politics packing. Keep reading to find out how!
The Bachmann Record:
First a little more about Michelle Bachmann and why it is so critical that we win this race. You already know about her shameful performance on Hardball. But Michelle Bachmann has been embarrassing Minnesotans for a long time on a lot more then just that.
Blames Economic Woes on Minorities:
Just recently she blamed the financial crises on minorities,
Anti-Gay Zealot:
She was Minnesota’s leading anti-gay politician and now she’s a favorite of the anti-gay movement. When there was a march for GLBT rights on the day the Minnesota legislature voted down a hateful anti-gay constitutional amendment of hers she literally hid in the bushes and spied on them, I’M NOT KIDDING! During her rallies for her hateful amendment people carried signs calling for the murder of gay and lesbian people and she’s since said she’s proud of that rally.
Energy Dumb:
Bachmann is a global warming denier despite all the evidence out there. She also thinks if those horrible Democrats didn’t take over Congress gas would magically be 2 dollars a gallon. Yes she’s from the “Drill Baby Drill” school of thought.
Worst Person in the World:
Michelle has been appearing frequently on Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World segment for over two years now. Here was her first time
and here is her latest
If you want to know more about why we need to Dump Bachmann head over to the good folks at Dump Bachmann who have been working hard to do just that since before she was even in Congress!
Send El to Congress!
Photo by Aaron Landry
Thankfully we’ve got someone great running to replace her. Elwyn Tinklenberg. El was a city councilman and mayor of Blaine (a big city in the district), Minnesota Transportation Commissioner and is currently president of the The Tinklenberg Group a transportation consulting firm. He’s a big advocate for public transit, strongly pro-union and for smart economic policies, supports universal healthcare, is for ending the war in Iraq and is a strong advocate for a transition alternative energy and a green economy.
But he win?
Yes! A recent poll showed him only 4 points behind Bachmann or within the margin of error with 15 percent undecided. El’s got a perfect profile for the district but while Bachmann has raised 2 million as of the end of Q3 Tinklenberg has only managed to raise 1 million. In short, he needs our help to get his message out and win.
So donate!
Every little bit counts.
I set up a fundraising page with a goal of 10,000 so we can show Michelle Bachmann that we reject her politics of hate and so we can tell El Tinklenberg and his campaign that we embrace his politics of hope.
If Bachmann wins this race it will be a lot harder to beat her in the future and her politics of hate and fear could be in Congress for a generation. This is our best shot to prevent that. Michelle Bachmann is a disgrace to Minnesota and decent people everywhere in our nation.
So please, please. Donate to El Tinklenberg.
Originally posted at The Populista Report
@ 3:05 PM Central (24 Hours after Bachmann’s comments)
On HuffingtonPost and Dailykos according to his diary on Dailykos. http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…
Until now I’d always assumed our candidate was a female, judging by the name.
The next Stu Rothenberg hit piece claiming that the “librul netroots” massive fundraising drive for El is going to doom his chances of winning?
…to drive a stake through the heart of this nut forever. She is way too conservative for her modestly right-leaning R+6 district, and only ended up winning two years ago because Democratic challenger Patty Wetterling ran an unimaginably awful campaign and managed to cede 8% of the vote (the margin of difference) to the left-leaning Independence Party spoiler. Bachmann WAS going to win this race a week ago, but for once she chose an inopportune time, that being a couple weeks before voters head to the polls, to expose her wingnuttery on national television, simultaneously driving away moderate Republicans and infusing cash into the campaign of her opponent.
The pathway to victory for Tinklenberg….he needs a huge student turnout in St. Cloud and nearby St. Joseph, enough to offset the socially conservative Catholic vote in the rest of Stearns County and neighboring Benton County. There is no mathematical equation where Tinklenberg can win districtwide if he isn’t carrying these two counties. He also needs outright victories in Bachmann’s home turf of Anoka and Washington Counties, which are largely well-to-do exurban counties. These counties are more economically conservative than socially, and even though its where Bachmann calls home, she performed weakest there against Wetterling in 2006, winning Washington County by less than 1%. As for exurban West Metro counties Sherburne and Wright, the best Tinklenberg can hope to do there is hold Bachmann down to high single digits or low double digits and hope the math works out. Just as I said in 2006, a Democrat winning in MN-06 CAN be done, particularly if his/her opponent is Michelle Bachmann.
woot, let’s bring this horrible woman down! Ha, 7/1 advantage in the state house delegation, and MN-2 can be won once we set our focus on it. In 2010, we can recruit an excellent candidate and really put all out MN effort there. No Senate races, just the gubernatorial which should be a blowout if we get the strongest candidate.
Sen. Murphy from Red Wing could do it.