Michelle Bachmann Lied About Raising 23 Foster Children

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RandySF (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-18-11 05:30 PM
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Michelle Bachmann Lied About Raising 23 Foster Children   Updated at 11:31 AM
   
Via The Daily Beast;

Bachmann often says she has “raised” 23 foster children. That may be a bit of a stretch. According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Bachmann’s license, which she had for 7 1/2 years, allowed her to care for up to three children at a time. According to Kris Harvieux, a former senior social worker in the foster care system in Bachmann’s county, some placements were almost certainly short term. “Some of them you have for a week. Some of them you have for three years, some you have for six months,” says Harvieux, who also served as a foster parent herself. “She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that’s not true.”

Yet Bachmann clearly had some of her foster children long enough to enroll them in local schools, and it was through them that she got involved in school politics. While she taught her own children at home before sending them to private Christian schools, state law required foster kids to go to public school. Seeing their curriculum, she became convinced that “politically correct attitudes, values, and beliefs” had supplanted objective education. She helped found a charter school but soon left the board amid allegations that she was trying to inject Christianity into the curriculum. Then, in 1999, she decided to run for the local school board.


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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1323894

 

Even if she is lying, how many of you goons still defend Wiener with the old line, all politicians lie.

connecticut yankee (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-18-11 05:44 PM
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7. and I'm sure
   
she was well-paid for doing it.

 

Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-18-11 05:46 PM
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8. She was probably making money off it.
   
There is nothing nice about her. It was some sort of scam to gain something for herself.

barefootaccountant (3 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-18-11 05:50 PM
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9. Is anyone surprised?   Updated at 6:16 PM
   
Is anyone surprised that Michelle Bachmann cannot count after listening to all of her misstatements about American history and her other comments, considered extreme to many.

The Barefoot Accountant

no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Jun-18-11 06:00 PM
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10. Most of them probably don't remember their week wth her.

The left is desperate, they have no issues to campaign on, so therefore they must trash the living hell out of every conservative.

[Traveshamockery]

Hmmmm, I wonder if any of these DUmmies, while complaining about Michele Bachmann not being able to count, ever said a word about Obamalamadindong saying he needs to visit all 57 states.  Even someone not born in this country  would know there are not 57 states.   

Hypocrites. 

[Skul]

“Some of them you have for a week. Some of them you have for three years, some you have for six months,”

Might we inquire how many you have helped, Mr. Randy in SF???
We already know the answer.  ZERO, right?
You can post in CC, little man.
Please tell us.

[thelaughingman]

“She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that’s not true.”

Yes, I agree.  It's not true that she makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood.

[BEG]

Wouldn't raising these kids from birth to adulthood be ADOPTION not foster care?  She never claimed she adopted these kids.

Attack her positions on the issues DUmmies, not on something that the large majority of people out there will never do.  Politics aside, she did a great thing. Admit it and move on because normal people see this for what it is.

Actually, scratch that. Keep doing what you are doing.

[thelaughingman]

Wouldn't raising these kids from birth to adulthood be ADOPTION not foster care?  She never claimed she adopted these kids.

Attack her positions on the issues DUmmies, not on something that the large majority of people out there will never do.  Politics aside, she did a great thing. Admit it and move on because normal people see this for what it is.

Actually, scratch that. Keep doing what you are doing.

What gets me is these idiots will turn around and defend to the death that lezbo bitch in Vermont who is trying to take away her former lover's biological daughter.  They'll call her the child's "mother" even though the child was born just a year before the couple broke up and there has been little to no contact between the two since.