Rachel Maddow - Mitch McConnell campaign manager

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tied to bribery scheme with Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann. The guy how accepted the bribes worked out plea agreement.

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1. I guess we now know why Bachmann & Paul suddenly decided to retire

from Congress!

Lots of people here were saying that Crazy Eyes had to have been involved in something really dirty, as she survived several strong efforts to take her seat, but that decision to quit seemed pretty hasty.

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2. Bachmann retired because of campaign finance irregularities

ReTHUGs decided not to have the ethics committee kick her out - and she agreed not to run again - she may yet face the Feds.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/12/michele-bachmann-investigation-gets-house-ethics-committee-extension.html
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Michele Bachmann Investigation Gets House Ethics Committee Extension
The congresswoman can’t seem to put her 2012 debacle behind her—the House Ethics Committee says it is extending its probe into her presidential campaign. Ben Jacobs gets a copy of the original complaint.

The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday that it is extending its investigation into alleged campaign finance irregularities by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). At issue is whether the congresswoman’s 2012 presidential campaign used money from her political action committee to pay staff and whether she used campaign staff and resources on her book tour.

The Daily Beast has exclusively obtained a copy of the original complaint against Bachmann, filed in February with the Office of Congressional Ethics by former campaign staffer Peter Waldron. Waldron, who recently released an e-book, Bachmannistan, about Bachmann’s presidential campaign, makes five allegations against the four-term congresswoman, who said in May that she will not seek reelection in 2014.

In the complaint, Waldron alleges that the Bachmann campaign funneled money to C&M Strategies, a firm owned by Bachmann’s longtime direct-mail consultant, Guy Short, to pay Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson an illicit six-figure salary. According to the complaint, “The apparent reasons for the sleight of hand payments were possibly to avoid a violation of IA Senate Rule 6 that prohibits State Senators from working for Presidential Campaigns in Iowa and/or to avoid creditors, [including] the IRS, owed money by Senator Sorenson.” Waldron also accuses Short, who held the title of national political director in the Bachmann campaign, of violating Federal Election Commission rules by receiving money from the Minnesota congresswoman’s political action committee while serving as full-time staff on her campaign.

How this criminal remains a media darling spreaks volumes.

By the way note the Sorenson part.