I attended Michele Bachman's tea party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ7Jn1iYqeQ

Scottsdale,Arizona
April 2, 2011
The press was not allowed in the VIP Reception nor did she grant any interviews. I was disappointed I had two questions I wanted to ask, that I haven't heard anyone ask. One she states she an d her husband have five biological children and 23 foster children. I wanted to know if her states pays for foster child care and if so, how much per child. She also has a farm with a tenent and I wanted to know if they receive farm subsidies. Alas I'll have to wait until someone else ask the questions.I have read some post on these two subjects from bloggers in her home state and wanted to verify the below information.
5 years after her first child was born, Mrs. Bachmann decided to become a stay-at-home mom. She has taken in 23 foster children, all of them teenage girls because “there’s no safer place for a teenage girl to be than around Marcus.” She has no recollection whether they used any of them as baby sitters. This effort has in no way benefitedthe Bachmann family financially; they do it for love.
Bachmann's Baby Farm

Bachmann has five kids of her own and raised an astonishing 23 foster kids. A nice person would say, “Oh, that’s a nice thing.” But our cold-hearted operative notes that Minnesota pays $30 a day, tax free, per foster kid. “So if Bachmann has fostered 23 children, let’s say for an average of five years, that would come out to a non-taxable $1,259,250,” the Wonk-Op writes. “No wonder she’s anti-abortion. Children are a cash crop for her.”

Mama Bachmann: The possible 2012 contender reflects on her years as a foster parent.   http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/263742/mama-bachmann-katrina-t

Truthdig calls her a "Welfare Queen":

Bachmann's family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann's recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized — or "socialized" —businesses in America (in 2005 alone washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls. Now that I have shared with you why I was so disappointed that I was not allowed to ask two tiny little questions, however I did get to video the shebang.