Just when you thought it was safe to forget Michele Bachmann.
The Minnesota Republican and Tea Party icon announced in the middle of last year that she would not run for re-election in 2014. But recently, her official political action committee, MichelePAC, began actively soliciting money again, after staying quiet for the better part of a year, according to Minnesota Public Radio. And in a recent email to potential donors, MichelePAC (which is actually short for Many Individual Conservatives Helping Elect Leaders Everywhere Political Action Committee) billed itself as an “invaluable resource” that keeps Bachmann from “draining resources” from her own re-election. The re-election she’s not running for.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=219786