Michele Bachmann

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Michele Marie Bachmann (née Amble; born April 6, 1956) is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party.

She served in Minnesota's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015.

St. Germain is part of the district. Cloud and several of the Twin Cities' northern suburbs. Bachmann ran for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential race in August 2011, but he fell out in January 2012 after finishing in sixth place in the Iowa caucuses.

She served in the Minnesota Senate and was the first Republican woman to represent Minnesota in Congress.

She is both a promoter of the Tea Party movement and a founder of the House Tea Party Caucus.

Early political activism

Bachmann grew up in a Democratic family and has said she became a Republican during her senior year at Winona State University. She told the Star Tribune that she was reading Gore Vidal's 1973 novel Burr, and that "I just remember reading the book, putting it in my lap, looking out the window, and wondering, 'You know what?' I don't agree that I am a Democrat. "I must be a Republican," says the author.

Marcus, Francis Schaeffer's 1976 Christian documentary film How Should We Then Lives? while still a Democrat, she and her then-fiancé were inspired to join the anti-abortion movement. They prayed outside of clinics and engaged in sidewalk harassment, an attempt by anti-abortion activists to convince women entering clinics not to obtain abortions. Bachmann has since made comments in favour of sidewalk interference.

In 1976, Bachmann supported Jimmy Carter for president, and she and her husband worked on his campaign. Bachmann became dissatisfied with his liberal commitment to public policy, support for legalized abortion, and economic decisions, she was responsible for higher gas prices during Carter's presidency. She voted for Ronald Reagan and campaigned for his campaign in 1980.

During a 1991 anti-abortion demonstration, Bachmann's political activism attracted national attention. She and about 30 others demonstrators attended a Ramsey County Board meeting, where $3 million was supposed to be appropriated to install a morgue for the county at St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center (now Regions Hospital). Jane Hodgson, a pro-choice activist, was employed by the Medical Center in abortions and fired pro-choice protesters. Bachmann denied tax receipts going to the hospital, but she wrote to the Star Tribune, "I have been a landlord of an abortion facility since 1973, and I don't like that distinction."

Bachmann and other parents founded the K-12 New Heights Charter School in Stillwater in 1993. The charter of the publicly funded school required that it be non-sectarian in all programs and practices, but the school shortly developed a strong Christian orientation. Parents of students at the school protested, and the school's superintendent warned Bachmann that the school was in breach of state legislation. Bachmann resigned and the Christian orientation was removed from the curriculum six months after it was established, allowing the school to keep its charter. Bachmann began speaking out against a state-mandated curriculum that pushed her into politics.

Bachmann became a critic and opponent of Minnesota's School-to-Work laws. "School-to-Work shifts the basic mission and purpose of K-12 academic education away from traditional broad-based academic research geared toward individual achievement. Rather, School-to-Work promotes children's learning of workplace skills, with students being viewed as learners for increased economic growth. In an election for the school board of Stillwater in November 1999, Bachmann and four other Republicans were candidates as the "Slate of Five." Both five of them were disqualified.

Personal life

Marcus Bachmann, now a doctor of Veterinary medicine with a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Union Graduate School, whom she encountered as undergraduates, married her in 1978. Since she was given an LL.M. degree, she became a member of the Royal Society of Women in the United Kingdom. The couple and Mary, a 1988 graduate of William & Mary School of Law, moved to Stillwater, Minnesota, a town of 18,000 near Saint Paul, where they operated a Christian counseling center that provided gay conversion services. Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia are five children of Bachmann and her husband. She expressed miscarriage following the birth of their second child, Harrison, in an event that she said inspired her anti-abortion views.

Both Bachmann and her husband have provided foster care to 23 other children, all of whom were teenagers. From 1992 to 2000, the Bachmanns were allowed to house up to three foster children at a time, with the last being in 1998. The Bachmanns began offering short-term services to girls with eating disorders who were attending a University of Minnesota program. Their home was statutorily classified as a medical facility, with a yearly reimbursement rate for children from the state. Some girls lasted a few months, while others stayed longer than a year.

Bachmann is a former beauty pageant champion.

Marcus Bachmann had applied for Swiss citizenship, which would make Michele and their children Swiss citizens as well as Swiss citizens, according to a Swiss nationality law. Michele Bachmann, one of the first accounts of Bachmann's dual citizenship, has revealed that she had written to the Swiss consulate to renounce her Swiss citizenship.

Bachmann was raised in "a family of Norwegian Lutheran Democrats" and was a long-serving member of Salem Lutheran Church (Wisconsin Evangelical Synod) in Stillwater. On June 21, 2011, she and her husband announced their membership just before she officially launched her presidential campaign. They hadn't attended the church for more than two years. The Bachmanns first attended Rockpoint Church in Lake Elmo, a member of the Evangelical Free Church of America.

Bachmann cited theologian Francis Schaeffer as a "profound influence" on her life and her husband's, particularly his film series How Should We Live? Nancy Pearcey has also referred to Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity as a "wonderful" book. Journalist Ryan Lizza has argued that Bachmann's worldview is deeply influenced by the Christian movement known as Dominionism, citing Schaeffer and Pearcey as examples. Others have sluggishly dismissed Lizza's book, particularly the mention of Schaeffer with Dominionism. Sarah Posner of O.W. Coburn School of Law supports Lizza's assertion of the influence of Christian Reconstructionists Herb Titus and R. J. Rushdoony on Bachmann.

Bachmann & Associates is a Christian counseling firm owned by Bachmann and her husband. The clinic is run by her husband, who holds a Ph.D. with "a concentration in clinical psychology" from Union Graduate School. Marcus Bachmann is not a licensed clinical psychologist in Minnesota. Between 2006 and 2010, the clinic obtained nearly $30,000 in federal funds and $24,000 in government grants for counselor education. Michele Bachmann said in an interview that she and her husband did not profit from taxpayer expense because "the money went to the clinic was really training money for employees." Marcus Bachmann has mistakenly stated that Bachmann & Associates did not provide conversion therapy, a controversial psychological therapy that has been condemned by the American Psychological Association as unethical and without medical support. Therapists at the clinic and a former client of Bachmann's clinic and a forensic camera investigator with the advocacy group Truth Wins Out confirmed that therapists at the clinic participate in such practices. Marcus Bachmann denied that he or other counselors at his clinic used the procedure, but that they did not do so at the request of a patient.

Bachmann's personal financial disclosure reports for 2006-to-date said she earned $32,500 to $105,000 from a farm that was owned by her ailing father-in-law, Paul Bachmann. Between 1995 and 2008, the farm received $260,000 in federal crop and disaster insurance. Bachmann said that her husband served as a trustee of the farm for his dying father and so, "out of "an abundance of caution," she claimed the farm as income in financial disclosures, although she was the owner of the farm during that time.

A man from Bachmann tweeted his "desire to participate in sadomasochistic activities" with her machete in August 2011, while misspelling her given name as "Michelle" in his tweet. Federal prosecutors have ordered Twitter to reveal his identity. In the grand jury's subpoena, Mr. X, the man named in the grand jury's deposition, appealed the decision in the District of Columbia's District Court in February 2012. Judge Royce Lamberth denied the request, citing the severity of the threat that may have been presented to Bachmann, but X was given the redaction of his identity in a separate order.

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Early life, education, and early career

Michele Amble was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to Norwegian-American parents David John Amble (1929–2003) and Arlene Jean Amble (née Johnson; born c. 1932). Melchior and Martha Munson, two of her great-grandparents, migrated from Sogndal, Norway, to Wisconsin in 1857. David was an engineer. When she was 13 years old, her family moved from Iowa to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. David, who was 14 years old when her parents separated, moved to California and remarried. Bachmann was raised by her mother, who worked at the First National Bank in Anoka, Minnesota, where they later moved again. Raymond J. LaFave, a widower, died three years ago, and the new family was left with nine children.

Bachmann graduated from Anoka High School in 1974 and spent one summer in Israel at kibbutz Be'eri. She earned a B.A. degree from Winona State University in 1978. Bachmann was a student of the O. W. Coburn School of Law in 1979, and later became a member of Oral Roberts University. She spent time in John Eidsmoe, whom she referred to in 2011 as "one of the professors with a great deal of influence on me." Bachmann was a research assistant on Eidsmoe's 1987 book Christianity and the Constitution, which claims that the US was established as a Christian theocracy and should re-invent it. Bachmann received a J.D. in 1986. Oral Roberts University has a degree. She was a member of the ORU law school's final graduating class and was part of a consortium of faculty, workers, and students who migrated the ORU law school library to Regent University.

Bachmann obtained an LL.M. in 1988. William & Mary Law School offers a degree in tax law. She served as an advocate with the Internal Revenue Service from 1988 to 1993 (IRS). When her fourth child was born, she left the IRS to become a full-time mother.

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