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Must Read: Michele Bachmann's Unrivaled Extremism

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Achilles Tang6/15/2011 1:55:26 pm PDT

re: #8 Naso Tang

I read the article and it answers what I questioned, to a degree.

Bachmann often says she has “raised” 23 foster children. That may be a bit of a stretch. According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Bachmann’s license, which she had for 7 1/2 years, allowed her to care for up to three children at a time. According to Kris Harvieux, a former senior social worker in the foster-care system in Bachmann’s county, some placements were almost certainly short term. “Some of them you have for a week. Some of them you have for three years, some you have for six months,” says Harvieux, who also served as a foster parent herself. “She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that’s not true.”

Seems to me that her self introduction as presidential candidate, and 23 foster children, was an outright lie by any normal literal understanding.