Politics | Occupy Wall Street Bachmann: Unlike Occupy, Tea Party 'Picks Up Its Trash' GOP candidate sees no parallels between two groups By Kevin Spak Posted Oct 21, 2011 8:17 AM CDT Copied Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) See any parallels between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party? Well Michele Bachmann—the founder of the Tea Party Caucus—doesn’t. “The Tea Party picks up its trash after it has a demonstration, there’s a difference,” Bachmann said at an appearance in San Francisco yesterday. She blasted the movement as "tremendously counterproductive," potentially violent, and unsanitary, PolitickerNY reports. “The Occupy Wall Street is asking for more spending and more government,” she went on. “The Tea Party movement, in high contrast, is calling for less government and less spending, so that individuals can solve their own problems. There’s a 180-degree difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.” Read These Next Analysis sees a historic shift underway in US capitalism. A child was reportedly among those shot dead in a Target parking lot. Rapper stops his show to scold a mom who brought her baby. Backpacker's drunken night ended with a fatal e-scooter accident. Report an error