Posted on 07/06/2012 2:44:52 PM PDT by SMGFan
GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.) resigned on Friday, citing the effects a “nightmarish” month and half has had on his family.
“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,” McCotter wrote in a statement. “As this harmony is required to serve, its absence requires I leave.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I love his dry, strange sense of humor whenever he was on Red Eye.
What’s the background to this? The story at the link doesn’t say much.
“What’s the background to this?”
“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,”
Slightly more information here...
http://farmington-mi.patch.com/articles/after-failed-presidential-bid-mccotter-penned-racy-tv-pilot
Say it "ain't" so! LOL!
Dear God. I’m stunned and equally saddened..
He and his family have my prayers.
He and his staff have always been extra special nice.
That's why they weren't paid and was the way it was designed. Everybody in Congress should serve one term and then leave.
Although I like the guy, 26 years is 24 too many.
Here’s a good Washington Rule of Thumb for you: Any time a politician says he is leaving office “for the sake of my family,” he is likely what he has done to his family that’s the real reason for his jumping ship.
He didn’t make the ballot due to the fact that the majority of the signatures collected were invalid. Personally I have trouble believing that an experienced congressman like himself could make such a mistake.
There’s an investigation ongoing about what happened.
“The show, described by the News as starring “McCotter hosting a crude variety show cast with characters bearing the nicknames of his congressional staffers, his brother and a drunk, perverted ‘Black Santa,’” riffs on drinking, sex, race, flatulence, puking and women’s anatomy, the report said.”
It all comes down to being the fault of a drunk, perverted Black Santa.
You have no idea what you are talking about, noobie. He didn’t do anything to his family. The Rats sabotaged his signature petition for re-election and it wasn’t caught until it was too late.
It would appear that he committed the unforgivable sin of writing a racy comedy script:
McCotter, a Livonia Republican representing Michigan's 11th Congressional District, penned a 42-minute script for "Bumper Sticker: Made On Motown," a racy television comedy pilot, the News reported after a script was leaked to the newspaper by a disgruntled former McCotter staffer.
I’m sorry he’s leaving. I always thought he was one of the good Reps.
This is losing a good guy. Hopefully his replacement will maintain most of McCotters’ conservative values.
He wasn’t a Congressman for 26 years. He served 5 terms — that is 10 years.
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