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Records show Bachmann calls cops on critics

Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann is shown on stage at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College for the CNN-sponsored Republican Presidential debate in Manchester, New Hampshire on June 13, 2011. UPI/Ryan T. Conaty
Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann is shown on stage at the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College for the CNN-sponsored Republican Presidential debate in Manchester, New Hampshire on June 13, 2011. UPI/Ryan T. Conaty | License Photo

MIAMI, July 12 (UPI) -- Rep. Michele Bachmann has a pattern of calling in the police when confronted by opponents, official records show.

In recent years, the Minnesota congresswoman and Republican presidential candidate has asked for police protection or investigations when constituents sent critical e-mails or tried to question her and when protesters threw glitter on her or her campaign yard signs were stolen, The Miami Herald reports.

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"She seems paranoid," said Brad Trandem of Lakeland, Minn. "She does all this criticism of other people's lives and talks about how people should be 'armed and dangerous.' But then someone says something critical about her and she calls the police."

He sent Bachmann an e-mail in January that her staff forwarded to U.S. Capitol Police as a "threat."

The message says of Dr. Marcus Bachmann, who has called gay people "barbarians": "I would also keep a little closer tabs on the dear hubby if I were you."

Trandem said he was not threatening anyone or implying the congresswoman's husband was gay. Minnesota authorities found no threat.

In 2005, Bachmann filed a "possible false imprisonment" report when two women followed her into a bathroom to ask questions.

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