Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, who announced Monday she is running for president, is remembered for many things in Minnesota, but her last-minute attempt to keep the Minnesota Twins from getting public subsidies for a new ballpark may not be one of them. But as a state senator in 2006 Bachmann won friends – and made enemies – for her late charge to try to scuttle the Twins' attempt to get the Minnesota Legislature to approve a public subsidy plan for the project. At 4:30 in the morning on May 21, as the Senate moved to adjournment for the year and her colleagues raced to adopt the plan, Bachmann led an unsuccessful fight in the Senate to derail an attempt to build the stadium by allowing Hennepin County to impose a countywide sales tax for the project. Her move to send the subsidy plan back to a committee for more study was defeated 42 to 24. Her fight came as the project, at the time, was widely opposed in public opinion polls. It also, albeit briefly, aligned the Republican lawmaker with some unlikely colleagues, such as Sen. John Marty, DFL-Roseville, a longtime stadium subsidy opponent. "This is not about who likes the Twins, and who likes baseball and who doesn't," Bachmann said on the Minnesota Senate floor early that morning. She said that, after reading the legislation, it should be called the " 'We [the Twins] get every benefit, you [the taxpayer] get every liability' bill. "We've been hearing this that, 'If we vote red, the Twins are dead'," she added, referring to warnings that the Twins might leave Minnesota without a new stadium. "I don't think that's so. That isn't our responsibility." The subsidy plan passed the Senate a short time later that morning. Under the plan, which was later amended, the ballpark's total cost was $435 million. Of that amount, $260 million came from Hennepin County, and $175 million came from the team. Of the ballpark's $120 million in additional infrastructure costs, $90 million came from the county, $20 million came from the Twins and $10 million came from other public and private sources.