Michele Bachmann Not To Run For Reelection

[General Mung Beans]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/us/po ... itics&_r=0

Bachmann Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year
By GERRY MULLANY
Published: May 29, 2013


Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who made an ill-fated run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, announced Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.

Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, in Washington on May 16. Ms. Bachmann announced in a video early Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.
She made the announcement just six months after being re-elected in what was her most challenging campaign since she was first elected to Congress six years ago. Her announcement also comes as her former presidential campaign faces inquiries into its fund-raising activities.

“I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth congressional term,” she said in a video on her campaign Web site. “This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff,” she added.

Mrs. Bachmann is known for her strong anti-abortion stance and adherence to Tea Party values but her presidential campaign was marked by frequent stumbles and her candidacy failed to catch fire in a crowded field of candidates that included Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Herman Cain, who all eventually lost to Mitt Romney.

In her congressional race last year, Mrs. Bachmann won re-election by just 4,200 votes out of 356,000 votes cast, beating the hotelier Jim Graves, who was greatly outspent. Mr. Graves recently announced that he would seek the seat again.

“My decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected to Congress,” she said. “If I ran I would again defeat the individual who I defeated last year.”

Her announcement comes as the Office of Congressional Ethics looks into claims by Ms. Bachmann’s former campaign aides that she may have improperly used money raised by one of her House-affiliated political action committees to assist her presidential efforts in the runup to in advance of the Iowa presidential caucuses in January 2012. She came in sixth in that race, even though she campaignied heavily in the state. The defeat led her to pull out of the race the next day.

While her presidential bid initially excited Tea Party supporters, Mrs. Bachmann would later find herself upstaged by opponents like Mr. Cain and Mr. Santorum, and she was prone to misstatements, including saying the vaccine for the suggested the vaccine against the human papillomavirus was linked to “mental retardation.”

Words can scarcely express my joy right now. Hopefully now a Democrat can take her seat next year.

[SirNitram]

Oh, if only I could beleive this would cause her to be less prominent. It'd be so nice for an anti-vaxxer to vanish in shame.

[Flagg]

She's on her way out anyway due to ethics charges. She'll be on Fox News within 6 months of her term ending whether she gets booted first or not.

[Admiral Drason]

Oh this is great news for Minnesota's 6th district, now we can actually have a congressperson who will actually be pulling for our district instead of her own pet projects.

[Dr. Trainwreck]

The question is how the fuck she managed to have these four terms. I mean, she just said that the ACA will be repealed because it's God's will. How many loonies voted for her or how much gerrymandering could allow her to exist?

[Crossroads Inc.]

The question is how the fuck she managed to have these four terms. I mean, she just said that the ACA will be repealed because it's God's will. How many loonies voted for her or how much gerrymandering could allow her to exist?

Part of it is gerrymandering, but also she is in THE most conservative district in MN.
That said if she wasn't going to get nailed under ethics, she still might not have run again because she has a very good chance of not winning.

Las election cycle, she JUST barely won re-election against a no name democrat no ones ever heard of. This in a district that went for Romeny by more then 15%.

[Flagg]

The question is how the fuck she managed to have these four terms. I mean, she just said that the ACA will be repealed because it's God's will. How many loonies voted for her or how much gerrymandering could allow her to exist?

Part of it is gerrymandering, but also she is in THE most conservative district in MN.
That said if she wasn't going to get nailed under ethics, she still might not have run again because she has a very good chance of not winning.

Las election cycle, she JUST barely won re-election against a no name democrat no ones ever heard of. This in a district that went for Romeny by more then 15%.

I don't know how no-name he is, I mean he's a wealthy businessman. It's supposedly widely believed by Democratic Party honchos that if he'd spent more of his own money he'd likely have won. The hilarious part is that every reason that nutty bitch gave for not being why she resigned are the exact reasons she resigned. I mean she started running reelection ads just this month, so it's very recent that she decided not to run again. Which we can celebrate but this just means someone who doesn't shove their foot in their gaping dumbshit mouth will run as and win as a republican.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Well, "No name" in a general sense, mostly in most political circles anyways...
But yeah, when I heard that she had started running political adds just recently, that struck me as very odd. If you are so certain of yourself, why run adds so early? Which makes me certain that she's stepping down because of the ethics charges. A poor chance at winning? Well, you can still put up a fight... But an ethics investigation? She must know she's going get fucked by that, so its time to "Spend more time with family" at this point.
That said this is as you say, a good thing for the Republicans.. With her gone whoever they put in her place will most likely win.