According to a piece from Salon.com, a special investigator will soon be appointed by the chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court to look into the ethics violations allegedly committed by Michele Bachmann.
Craig Holman of the watchdog group Public Citizen agrees that the charges are serious. “It’s not Watergate, or at least not yet,” he said. “But these are a series of allegations that are each serious on their own, and when you put them all together, this could be a career ender for Michele Bachmann.”
There are least three different investigations focusing on a range of allegations stemming from Bachmann’s 2012 presidential campaign, including charges that she improperly used campaign funds to promote her book, money laundering, and even one that accuses one of her staffers of stealing an email list from a home-school organization.
In a recent development that deepened Bachman’s troubles, two former staffers, one who was her former chief of staff, have agreed to testify against her. Holman said this is “very unusual” and will likely escalate the urgency of the investigation.
According to Alex Seitz-Wald of Salon, the consequences for Bachmann, even if no ethics charges are filed, would likely affect her campaign next year when she faces off against Democrat Jim Graves, whom she narrowly beat in 2012.
Bachmann will undoubtedly have a core group of supporters that will stand by her, but others may not. According to Professor Larry Jacobs of Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at University of Minnesota, “These charges are particularly damaging because they cut to the core of her greatest strength among her followers, which is her authenticity. This cloud of questions has now enveloped her in the ‘usual politics’ label and what I’ve heard from her supporters — and this is obviously not a scientific sample — is, ‘she’s just like the rest of them.’”
Is anyone truly surprised? Her husband is a self admitted con man taking money from people to “cure” gayness and she has bragged repeatedly about it. Of course she’s dirty!
I’m glad Iowa is going with a criminal probe. If this was done in-house, by the GOP run ethics committee, it would be dropped. I want her to go to prison…they’ll love her there.
Hooray for Iowa!
I really think she will find someone else to blame.
She’s not like the rest of them, she’s totally craz-… Uh. Never mind.
cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo…..
You’re just trying to cheer me up with that headline.
The following video (Michele One L) pretty much says it all about her. I really don’t understand why anyone would support and/or vote for this woman for anything. As a line in the parody goes “Michele one L. Knows the truth and facts can go to (expletive deleted)
http://youtu.be/7gVZsypIKGc
Bachmann is a travesty. She is misguided, self-righteous, and has absolutely no concept of the fact that she has been elected to be honest and truthful to people she is supposed to represent. She obviously does not have one fig of an idea of what her job should be, as do many of her GOP colleagues.
The thought of one less hallucinatory, lying voice from the frightwing Bizzaro Land crazy swamp is welcome news. Not that another whack-a-mole won’t pop up to take her place, but enough of this fingernails on the blackboard tea stained windbag broad already!
a bad end to a bad vegetable…
The tip of the iceburg. Cruz Broun, Graham,Gohmert,,and countless others continue to provide us with cringable moments. None of what these clowns do becomes law ,but they are a constant embarrassment to the USA. Congress now hires fools ,how did that happen?
Michelle Bachmann and bad ethics? You must be joshing! She is the most moral, upright person in the country, everyone else is amoral. She is such a hypocrite, most blowhards are.
She’ll plead insanity, and really, could anyone argue?