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Campaign staff charged in McCotter petitions probe
Foxnews.com ^ | August 09, 2012 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/09/2012 2:45:23 PM PDT by CaptainK

Michigan's attorney general has charged four of former U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter's campaign staffers in an investigation into fake and duplicate signatures on nominating petitions.

Attorney General Bill Schuette announced charges Thursday ranging from forgery and conspiracy to falsely signing election documents.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: backstabbermccotter; billschuette; cultureofcorruption; mccotter; mccotter4bailouts; michigan; thaddeusmccotter; tmac; traitormccotter

1 posted on 08/09/2012 2:45:29 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

The question is...why the heck did they do something so criminally stupid?


2 posted on 08/09/2012 2:46:23 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK
It apparently worked in 2008.....

Bunch of gov't leaches.

3 posted on 08/09/2012 2:52:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CaptainK

PolItically motivated prosecution to take down a solid conservative.


4 posted on 08/09/2012 2:55:53 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Uncle Slayton

Is it worth going to jail for?


5 posted on 08/09/2012 2:59:01 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Uncle Slayton
I'd say that the staff were not real conservatives (moral - do it right types).

McCotter's fault.

6 posted on 08/09/2012 3:01:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

A good Congressman undone by a bunch of slackers not conscientious enough to go door to door for signatures.


7 posted on 08/09/2012 3:06:05 PM PDT by cumbo78
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To: CaptainK

Easier to make copies of old petitions than to actually collect a thousand signatures. McCotter trusted the wrong people and it cost him his seat in Congress.


8 posted on 08/09/2012 3:09:08 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
Gotta agree with the AG on this one. McCotter was asleep at the switch this time. However we can be proud that our AG and SOS have the integrity to go after this regardless of party.

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9 posted on 08/09/2012 3:14:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek

This is too bad. I really appreciated McCotter on Red Eye the couple of times I saw him. Funny and bright guy.


10 posted on 08/09/2012 3:22:17 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: Winstons Julia

Not wildly conservative and a little more than too friendly with the unions but he was proof that Tea Partiers could compromise and accept someone not strictly in our camp.


11 posted on 08/09/2012 3:25:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: CaptainK

I see at least one of these guys appeared in a less than favorable light in the script McCotter wrote.

http://michiganradio.org/post/raunchy-tv-script-michigans-rep-mccotter-surfaces


12 posted on 08/09/2012 3:36:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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