The producers keep adding hits to Michele Bachmann's greatest album. Just yesterday I had to write a diary about how she called Americorps - Re-education camps.
Of course these diaries and stories are hitting the national media as we speak. Well today I found out about the foreclosure rates in MN-06 being the highest in the state and above the national average while she does nothing to help homeowners.
In fact she calls them
"irresponsible."
Instead of joining her Minnesota counterpart Keith Ellison to help address these issues on a national level, Bachmann has been too busy
criticizing Americorps,
calling for an "armed and dangerous revolution",
saying she is a "foreign correspondent on enemy lines", and
drafting crazy bills saying that Minnesota should not house any Gitmo detainees or prohibit Obama from changing the national currency.
Not only is she not doing anything to help homeowners in her district, but she's working against bills that will help them.
But Bachmann’s record in Congress is not one of a representative whose district faces such a crisis. Bachmann hasn’t authored or sponsored any legislation to assist homeowners facing foreclosure, but she has co-sponsored 14 bills to restrict abortions and five to promote Christianity in government.
Bachmann voted against five key foreclosure relief bills, including the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, which would set standards for mortgages and reduce predatory lending, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Act, which would provide funds for buying and rehabilitating foreclosed properties in affected neighborhoods. She also opposed the Expanding American Homeownership Act, which allows more people to qualify for FHA-backed mortgages, and the Expand and Preserve Home Ownership Through Counseling Act, which aims to improve financial literacy. Bachmann additionally voted against the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, a law signed by President Bush that contained many provisions to assist struggling homeowners and also the only one of the bills to become law.
Before the first four of these measures reached the House floor, Bachmann opposed them in the House Financial Services Committee. She also voted against the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Rentention Act of 2008, which did not receive a floor vote. The bill would have provided mortgage refinancing assistance to struggling families and expanded FHA loan programs.
Bachmann further offered an amendment to block increased funding for HOPE for Homeowners, a Department of Housing and Urban Development program that helps families facing foreclosure to refinance their mortgages.
Bachmann sits on the Financial Services committee. And like I said she obviously just sits.
This lady is not only crazy but she's doing nothing to help people in her district instead building a following amongst radicals.
Please help us get rid of this nutcase in 2010. We've started a MN-06 Dem Nominee fund. With an influx of early money we can put her on notice.