Michele Bachmann Owes $1 Million In Campaign Debt

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann owes more than $1 million from her unsuccessful bid to become the Republican presidential nominee.

Bachmann detailed her finances through late January in a federal campaign report filed this week. The report had been due Feb. 20.

She left the GOP race after finishing last in Iowa's leadoff caucuses. She is running for a new term in Congress.

Half of the debt is owed to a fundraising consultant and her campaign manager is also due a large chunk.

Comments

[Caris1]

06:55 AM on 03/27/2012

Could the upshot of this be more foster kids get a warm blanket and a basement den to sleep in?
Food, glorious Food! Hot sausage and mustard.

[Ira Meyers]

10:56 AM on 03/26/2012

That's what happens when you give Marcus a Bloomingdales credit card and let him be FABULOUS

[iMissMollyIvins]

10:44 AM on 03/26/2012

Hmm, that doesn't sound very fiscally responsible to me.

[Shadow Diver]

10:19 AM on 03/26/2012

Talks about out of control spending and then............? Just like she wants to get rid of Fannie and Freddie...after she bought her house through one of them.

[billbb]

09:46 AM on 03/26/2012

Republican candidates seem unusually bad at this stuff, talking all the time about the terrible debt and then running up more themselves. Maybe we should take Michelle's advice... It's time for "tough love."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/michele-bachmann-debt-ceiling_n_895119.html

[satyrday]

08:30 AM on 03/26/2012

Seems like she needs a lesson in capping spending, and not borrowing more than she can pay off. Typical republican.

[Duppy]

08:02 AM on 03/26/2012

I am sure she will be fine. Teabaggers will give her money to pay off the debt or she can just wait for her next government check to come in the mail.

[l78lancer]

04:47 AM on 03/26/2012

She said that she never mispoke or made any mistakes. Guess that means that running up $1 million in debt wasn't a mistake...

[l78lancer]

04:44 AM on 03/26/2012

"...but God told me it would be free of charge."

[Thias Mha]

04:19 AM on 03/26/2012

TEA PARTY DEADBEAT WHO SUPPORTS GINGRICH...AAHAHAHA..I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHO ELSE SHE SUPPORTS..WHAT A BUFFOON!!!!..MAYBE SHE SHOULD ASK HER BFF PALIN FOR A LOAN!

[ScaredAcademic]

03:39 AM on 03/26/2012

Let me guess. This is the fundraising consultant that scored the Bush tax cuts....

[AAKAlan]

02:50 AM on 03/26/2012

The only bad news for Bachman that I'm interested in is hearing that she has not been re-elected.

Which would be good news, indeed, for America.

[CODE8]

02:11 AM on 03/26/2012

I'm surprised it's not more actually. To think, she was once touted as a fundraising dynamo by the GOP-NOT! At least not after people started to actually listen to what she says beyond her rather predictable anti-Obama rants.I suspect there will be more Repub candidates with similar debt or more.

[doglove]

03:00 AM on 03/26/2012

They'll never pay a cent themselves. It will all come from their bots

[CODE8]

04:02 AM on 03/26/2012

what a tremendous waste of money, whoever pays.

[THORGODOFTHUNDER]

01:10 AM on 03/26/2012

She should "pray the debt away."

[billbb]

09:49 AM on 03/26/2012

I wonder if this affects her re-election campaign for Congress, just around the corner.

[xsm941f]

01:00 AM on 03/26/2012

One thing to be nuts. Another to be nuts AND owe a million.