Michelle Bachmann’s Husband Had Failed Government Contract To Provide Christian-Themed Drug Treatment
Rep. Michele Bachmann may have a more personal reason to hate government funding than fellow conservatives. The GOP presidential candidate’s husband had secured a deal for public financing that ended up worthless.
In 2005, Dr. Marcus Bachmann’s mental-health counseling service, Bachmann & Associates Inc., was awarded a contract [PDF] to provide outpatient counseling to drug addicts.
In 2008, the service was awarded a second contract [PDF]. The two could have netted Bachmann’s husband as much as $4,000 per client. The sum total of the contracts could have raked in roughly $80,000 in public money.
Instead, the government contract turned out to be a bust.
Bachmann & Associates held onto the contract from 2005 through the beginning of 2009. During that time, the contract did not earn them a penny in government funds because the county never sent them a single potential client.
“We never made a single referral to them and we paid them nothing,” said Daniel Papin, Director of Washington County Community Services, in an interview with The Huffington Post.
It came down to one reason: No drug addicts that sought help through the county wanted to go through Bachmann’s program.
“We rely on client choice,” Papin said. “Just didn’t see anybody that came through us for assessment that was appropriate for their program.”
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