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Did Michele Bachmann "raise" 23 foster kids?
CBSNews.com ^ | 06/18/2011 | Brian Montopoli

Posted on 06/18/2011 7:39:04 PM PDT by Hawk720

After her speech at the Republican Leadership Conference, I asked GOP presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann about her repeated claims that she has "raised" 23 foster children, a comment she reiterated in an interview with CNN following her speech.

Writing in the Daily Beast this week, Michelle Goldberg quoted Kris Harvieux, who worked as a senior social worker in the foster care system in Bachmann's county, who said at least some of Bachmann's placements were likely short term.

"Some of them you have for a week. Some of them you have for three years, some you have for six months," he said. "She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that's not true."

According to Goldberg, the Minnesota Department of Human Services reports that Bachmann's foster care license allowed her to care for at most three children at any one time; she had the license for 7 1/2 years.

Asked to explain her situation with her foster children, Bachmann said "we took children in as teenagers."

"Their family was facing a challenge and they weren't going to be able to be at home with their parents and so we took them in as teenagers," she continued. "And our job was to see that they graduated from high school and were successfully launched into the world."

Asked how long they lived with her, she said "it varied."

I asked Bachmann to explain the parameters of how long the children lived with her - was it as short as one week? As long as three years?

"It varied, it really varied depending on the children," Bachmann responded. "And we've never gotten into specifics about the children because we've always wanted to observe their privacy and that of their families."

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KEYWORDS: bachmann; fostercare; krisharvieux; michellegoldberg
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41 posted on 06/18/2011 9:15:36 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Hawk720

Michelle Goldberg is slimy. What does she think about Gabbie Gifford’s attempted assassination?

http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/55460/targeted/

Now Giffords has been shot allegedly by a crazy young man who had imbibed elements of Tea Party conspiracy-ism. We don’t know exactly what the reasons were for the attack. Still, it was precisely what the Tea Party, with all its gun brandishing and talk of armed revolution and “second amendment remedies,” has been hinting at for over a year.


42 posted on 06/18/2011 9:33:31 PM PDT by cpanter
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To: Hawk720

SeeBS at it’s Commie finest. Where was that Raila Odinga, Frank Marshall Davis, Rev. Wright and Tony Rezko expose’?

No, they attack Bachmanns foster kids like the good little Marxist arsepimples they truly are.


43 posted on 06/18/2011 9:34:31 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Hawk720
It doesn't matter if these kids were in her house an hour or 10 years, she “raised” them. I'm sure these kids will appreciate someone like Bachmann proudly claiming she raised them since most would not.
44 posted on 06/18/2011 9:36:40 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Hawk720

Great! So when are they going to delve in our president’s past and wonder why the editor of the Harvard Review never published anything? or never was considered for recruitment by a large firm?

When are they going to wonder how a guy who described himself as a dabbler in recreational drugs and unserious about his schoolwork - how DOES such a person get accepted into Harvard in the first place?


45 posted on 06/18/2011 9:36:42 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Hawk720

Somebody needs to look up the definition of foster care.


46 posted on 06/18/2011 9:41:34 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: Hawk720

I’m not for Bachmann. I don’t think she should be running for president to begin with, and I believe she has exactly ZERO chance of winning....

But how many foster children has the CBS reporter taken care of for even “a few weeks”—?? And if it turns out to be none then he should just STFU about Bachmann and foster children.


47 posted on 06/18/2011 9:58:16 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: PaleoBob

Well said.


48 posted on 06/18/2011 10:02:13 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: digger48

See, she never said “raised” but according to the whining reporter, she “intoned” raised and therefore should be held to that statement, even though she didn’t say it.

Makes perfect sense, right?


49 posted on 06/18/2011 10:07:25 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (if there were a little more of me around we'd all be better off.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I have a good friend who does this service .
Its a stressful life and rewarding.


50 posted on 06/18/2011 10:08:42 PM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: Hawk720

The bottom feeding, muck eating, Obama-rumpswabbers must have finished sifting through Sarah’s weekly garbage.

Now they are turning their attention to Michelle.


51 posted on 06/18/2011 10:19:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster - Sun Tzu)
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To: cableguymn

Expect this on a daily basis. By next week they will be accusing her of child abuse or something. It never stops.


52 posted on 06/18/2011 10:33:09 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: cableguymn

CBS Cares! /s


53 posted on 06/18/2011 10:56:34 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Recovery Summer Part Deux)
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To: Hawk720

How many foster kids have you taken in Brian Montopoli?


54 posted on 06/18/2011 11:01:52 PM PDT by Royal Wulff
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“but she has implied she raised the children.” Implied? When? What did she actually SAY that “impled” she “raised” the 23 children from birth? see Digger48’s post above.


55 posted on 06/18/2011 11:24:00 PM PDT by ngat
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Post #37.

Actually said it to Wolf Blitzed.

I guess Rollins told her to dial back the exaggeration.

56 posted on 06/18/2011 11:28:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (JMO but I reserve the right to be wrong...)
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To: Hawk720

uh, do you know how hard it is to find good foster parents for teenagers? A lot of them end up in “group homes”...

And in some ways, it’s easier to take in a young kid and keep the kid for ten years (where you get used to him and can parent him) than take an often traumatized kid from his parents or from another foster home or a relative’s home where his placement didn’t work out and then take care of him.

That’s what foster care is all about...


57 posted on 06/18/2011 11:54:38 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: Hawk720

Bachmann needs to clarify this before it becomes a big issue. She needs to come out and give specifics. Maybe she should not use the word “raise’ when referring to children that were in her care for short periods of time. She should say “cared for” or “provided assistance” or something like that. Be honest. Even if some of these kids were only there for short periods of time she should and will still receive praise. The voters don’t like dishonest politicians (the phony Vietnam vets come to mind here) and this could hurt her.


58 posted on 06/19/2011 12:27:34 AM PDT by dupree
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To: Hawk720
"She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that's not true."

Bull. No one, especially a social worker in foster care, would have that as a take away message. The man is a partisan hack.

59 posted on 06/19/2011 12:31:27 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Help Jim DeMint: http://www.cutcapbalancepledge.com/)
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We're battling over the meaning of "raised" now? All that's going on and that's where we are?

PLEASE!

60 posted on 06/19/2011 12:42:29 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Help Jim DeMint: http://www.cutcapbalancepledge.com/)
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