Did Michele Bachmann violate House ethics rules again?

by: The Big E

Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 20:01:51 PM CST

Did a rally geared at saving government resources actually misuse them?

Could be, at least technically. Rep. Michele Bachmann's House home-page shout-out to tea party types for her Nov. 5 rally on the West Front steps may have violated the letter of the administration committee's rules on the use of official, taxpayer-funded websites.
(Politico)

So we can add misusing her House website to promote a mob rally, to using her House mail account to send mail to people in Colorado (Congresscritters can only use House mail accounts to mail to constituents), to misusing her House website to link to townhall.com (a far right website), to promising to break the law (a violation of House rules) by refusing to participate in the census.

This was mentioned on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight and hopefully an investigation into her multiple ethics violations will be forthcoming.

^{Although I won't be holding my breathe.}

"Representative Michele Bachmann operates as if rules that aren't convenient just don't apply to her. She has repeatedly flouted House ethics rules in order to promote her extremist, partisan stunts. Her anti-health-care rally at the Capitol last week is just the latest in a mounting series of infractions.

"Representative Bachmann has a lot to say about the important legislation that the President and congressional leadership are advancing, even though her comments suggest that she hasn't read the legislation. But even if she doesn't have time to read each bill that she talks about, she should at least read the four House ethics documents that govern her communications in her official capacity as an elected representative. As citizens in a constitutional democracy, we live under the rule of law, and we can't just ignore the laws that we don't like. Representative Bachmann is no exception."
(DFL email press release)