we knew Bachman didn't like mexicans, and we knew she didn't like blacks, and we really knew she didn't like homosexuals aka GBLT,
now she is letting us know she doesn't even like Native American women and girls. (we actually already knew that)
She really does want to put us back 100 years.
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/08/01/bachmann-v...By Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Independent
August 01, 2010
A bill aimed at helping Native American law enforcement investigate rape and other crimes by non-Indians on tribal lands passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last week with overwhelming bipartisan support. Only one Minnesotan - Republican Michele Bachmann - voted against it.
The Tribal Law and Order Act passed last Wednesday as an amendment to HR 725 on a 326-92 vote, with votes from Minnesota Republicans Erik Paulsen and John Kline and Democrats Keith Ellison, James Oberstar, Betty McCollum, Collin Peterson and Tim Walz. It gives tribal police more authority in seeking prosecution of non-Natives who commit crimes on American Indian lands. There are more than 63,000 Minnesotans who identify exclusively as Native American, according to the U.S. Census.
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Bachmann's communications director, Dave Dziock, didn't return the Minnesota Independent's request for comment on the Sixth District Republican's no-vote.
Republicans elsewhere, however, have questioned the bill's price tag, which some have estimated at $1.1 billion.
That's a "myth," Deer says. "There's been some misunderstanding that it was going to be a high-dollar bill," she told the Independent, noting that "there's no mandatory spending" in the bill.
Deer wouldn't speculate on why Bachmann opposes this important boost for Indian women, which President Obama is expected to sign into law soon, but she expressed some surprise.
"I'm not sure why she didn't. It's very much about prosecution. It's a very law-and-order bill."
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