Posted on 07/07/2012 2:58:03 PM PDT by neverdem
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Michigan Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, who ran a quixotic presidential bid and then failed to get enough signatures to appear on the GOP ballot for his 6th term, announced late today he had resigned from office.
“Today I have resigned from the office of United States Representative for Michigan’s 11th Congressional District,” he said in a statement sent out by his campaign.
“After nearly 26 years in elected office, this past nightmarish month and a half have, for the first time, severed the necessary harmony between the needs of my constituency and of my family. As this harmony is required to serve, its absence requires I leave. The recent event’s totality of calumnies, indignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family. Thus, acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home amongst the ruins of their U.S. House office, for the sake of my loved ones I must ‘strike another match, go start anew’ by embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen,” he said.
Martin Van Valkenburg, McCotter’s chief of staff, confirmed the resignation to Roll Call.
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of him. Hopefully he’ll take an active role in pushing conservative principles.
Something is not right in River city...
LLS
I sure hope so.
He gave me hope when I live down by his district.
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Livonia, jams out to a Chuck Berry tune on his star-spangled Fender Telecaster shortly after he announced his candidacy for president at the WAAM Freedom Fest in Whitmore Lake on Saturday, July 2, 2011.
The Michigan attorney general has launched an investigation into why more than 80 percent of the signatures on McCotter’s nominating petitions were invalid — many apparently photocopied from other petitions.
What’s up with this guy? Does he think he’s a democrat?
Before everyone attacks, how do you indicate sarcasm?
U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter’s farewell: first John Lennon, now Bob Dylan
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/07/us_rep_thad_mccotter_channels.html
LANSING, MI - When he abandoned a write-in campaign to hold onto his suburban Detroit congressional district in June, Thaddeus McCotter tweeted a video of John Lennon’s “Watching the Wheels.”
“I just had to let it go,” Lennon sings.
McCotter, in abruptly resigning on Friday, turned to another music icon, Bob Dylan.
“Strike another match, go start anew,” he said in his statement, repeating a line in Dylan’s farewell song, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.”
Indeed, it is.
The five-term Livonia Republican’s resignation capped a nearly eight-week long “nightmarish” saga that began when his campaign turned in far fewer valid signatures than required to qualify for the August primary - an unprecedented failure for an incumbent.
Is he doing a ‘Tom Delay’ and his resignation going to leave the GOP without a nominee or did someone else win already win the primary?
Primary isn’t till August.
the use of a "/s" after your comment is generally accepted here as meaning the comment is sarcastic.
Thats good.
Dude, get a real job already!
Isn't it funny that the GOPe tells us to vote for them (take the bite of the $hit sandwich) or else we are idiots yet when the shoe is on the other foot they do not adhere to their own rhetoric? The GOPe is as two-faced as any Democrat and just as dangerous to our Country.
I’ll never forget his tearful speech on the House floor advocating for passage of the auto company bailouts.
Made me sick.
Pre-redistricting, the MI-11 had an even PVI, but it was made several points more Republican for 2010.
The GOP primary in MI-11 will only have one candidate on the ballot: a pro-abortion Ron Paul enthusiast named Kerry Bentivolio, who has raised very little money and has no record to back up his economic conservative issue positions. Fortunately, conservative state senator Nancy Cassis is running as a write-in in the GOP primary and, if she wins the nomination, easily will hold the seat in November against the well financed Democrat. http://nancycassis.com/
Every Republican in MI-11 should learn to spell her name: NANCY CASSIS, and should write her in on primary day, so that a pro-life conservative with a record to back up her words can get elected.
NANCY CASSIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAMVyBCHvU4
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood - Them changes - *Live*
Oops, the MI-11 was made more Republican (through GOP-controlled redistricting) for *2012*, not for 2010.
Cassis has a less than stellar voting record.
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