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Is this a case of hypocricy on her part or is there another explanation for this?
Michele Bachmann rails against federal funding -- while husband gets $137,000 in Medicaid funds
It may get even harder for Tea Party conservative star Michele Bachmann to slam federal spending in her 2012 presidential campaign -- now that a new report shows her husband has gotten $137,000 in Medicaid funding at his mental health clinic.
The scoop was revealed today in a new NBC News report, with data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The NBC story says that clinical therapist Marcus Bachmann's Bachmann & Associates firm has been collecting previously reported annual Medicaid payments that have topped $137,000 since 2005 -- on top of another $30,000 in federal and state funds reported recently.
The Minnesota-based clinic says it offers "quality Christian counseling" for everything from eating disorders to anger management, according to the report by journalist Michael Isikoff.
The NBC report comes on the heels of a Los Angeles Times piece this week that stated that Bachmann, R-Minn., who has made a campaign against federal spending a hallmark of her presidential run, was also a partner in a farm interest that had received $260,000 in federal subsidies.
Moreover, the LA Times said, Bachman "has sought to keep federal money flowing to her constituents,'' even while she has publicly criticized the Obama administration's stimulus program and has vowed to undo the health care plan passed by Congress which she calls "Obamacare."
Bachmann has requested stimulus funds to support projects in her district, but "although she has been a fierce critic of earmarks -- calling them 'part of the root problem with Washington's spending addiction' -- she argued recently "that transportation projects should not be considered congressional pork,'' the Times said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=91978
Michele Bachmann rails against federal funding -- while husband gets $137,000 in Medicaid funds
It may get even harder for Tea Party conservative star Michele Bachmann to slam federal spending in her 2012 presidential campaign -- now that a new report shows her husband has gotten $137,000 in Medicaid funding at his mental health clinic.
The scoop was revealed today in a new NBC News report, with data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The NBC story says that clinical therapist Marcus Bachmann's Bachmann & Associates firm has been collecting previously reported annual Medicaid payments that have topped $137,000 since 2005 -- on top of another $30,000 in federal and state funds reported recently.
The Minnesota-based clinic says it offers "quality Christian counseling" for everything from eating disorders to anger management, according to the report by journalist Michael Isikoff.
The NBC report comes on the heels of a Los Angeles Times piece this week that stated that Bachmann, R-Minn., who has made a campaign against federal spending a hallmark of her presidential run, was also a partner in a farm interest that had received $260,000 in federal subsidies.
Moreover, the LA Times said, Bachman "has sought to keep federal money flowing to her constituents,'' even while she has publicly criticized the Obama administration's stimulus program and has vowed to undo the health care plan passed by Congress which she calls "Obamacare."
Bachmann has requested stimulus funds to support projects in her district, but "although she has been a fierce critic of earmarks -- calling them 'part of the root problem with Washington's spending addiction' -- she argued recently "that transportation projects should not be considered congressional pork,'' the Times said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=91978
