Michele Bachmann, champion of cutting spending, increases staff salaries 26.4% in 2009

[Minnesota Raindog]

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2010/04/michele-bachmanns-staff-salaries.html

While Michele Bachmann has developed a reputation as a champion for cutting government spending, her own 2009 congressional staff salary budget mushroomed by $176,868 - a whopping 26.4 percent - over her 2008 staff budget, even though her congressional workload didn’t change.

At the same time, Bachmann’s national media profile took a dramatic jump in 2009 due to her frequent cable tv appearances and campaign speaking engagements around the country.

Are taxpayers subsidizing Bachmann’s campaign expenses and increased media exposure with a congressional staff growing at more than twice the rate of anyone else in the Minnesota delegation? That’s hard to tell, because a number of Bachmann staffers also work as consultants to her campaign.

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1. That's the same way Minnesota governor, Tim Pawlenty, built his

staff. He charged every state department a portion of his office salaries, so he could hire more people.

Republicans can't walk the talk.