Is this the guy that campaigned as a tea partier and then has been constantly stabbing us in the back???
01 Jan 2014
Initially elected with support from tea partiers in Michigan’s 11th District, which covers Oakland and Wayne Counties, and with the support of Ron Paul, Bentivolio disappointed some backers when he voted to extend the debt ceiling. More recently, he spoke out against any U.S. action in Syria and was one of 62 House Republicans to oppose the Ryan-Murray bipartisan budget agreement.
His tea party pedigree notwithstanding, Bentivolio has the strong backing of Speaker John Boehner and all of the House GOP leaders. Five of the six state Republican Party officers are in his camp, as is Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema.
http://michiganradio.org/post/rep-kerry-bentivolio-puts-fight-against-his-own-party
OCT 29, 2014
Basically, he feels that Trott and the GOP establishment stabbed him in the back, have worked for two years to ruin his reputation, and he isn’t going to take it anymore.
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The only bad things Bentivolio had to say were about the GOP establishment.
“They believe you have to be anointed to run for office - that you are supposed to kiss the ring,” he told me, adding, “That’s not how the founding fathers saw this country.”
I told him that some Republicans saw his effort as sour grape resentment, and he admits that he does feel some of that.
Bentivolio also knows that his write-in effort could well help Democratic nominee Bobby McKenzie, but he feels that when a Republican congressman is doing a good job, he doesn’t deserve to be challenged in his own party’s primary.
Not only did Trott do that, but Bentivolio feels he unfairly smeared his reputation.
When he left some of those attacks up on the internet after the primary, Bentivolio announced he would write his own name in “as a shot across his bow.”
But Trott still didn’t take the offending material down, and meanwhile, Bentivolio’s staff members in Washington started hearing they would be blacklisted from new jobs.
That did it.
Kerry Bentivolio, a career army officer and former teacher, is not a wealthy man.
He doesn’t know what he will do if he doesn’t get reelected, and may be looking at personal bankruptcy.
Wait till you see his replacement.
The guy can’t wait to vote for Amnesty.