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.
Thanks for the ping/posts. Very interesting and a very interesting thread. Thanks to all posters.
This was an extremely flaky move and wastes taxpayer money by necessitating a special primary on Sept 5th for an election day special election.
I think the dude must be having some personal problems, he sounds unwell mentally.
“I think the dude must be having some personal problems, he sounds unwell mentally.”
I agree. WTH?!?!
Pro choice Paultard Kerry Bentivolio is not the “tea party choice”.
As opposed to Bentivolio, who has no record at all.
Cassis is not perfect (no one is), but she’s pro-life, will win in November, and will not be a Ron Paul disciple in the House.
Michigan conservatives who want to bring down an establishment moderate should focus on Congressman Upton, whose primary opponent, Jack Hoogendyk, is a proven conservative who will win in November. It doesn’t make sense to back a pro-abortion Paulistinian who could well lose in November and who has nothing to back up his conservative positions over a conservative state senator whose only sin is to have voted the same way as 90% of Republicans on a couple of compromise measures. The last time many conservatives backed a Ron Paul supporter over a conservative state senator because of a couple of votes, we ended up with the embarrassment that is Justin Amash, who votes with the Democrats more often than all but Walter Jones and his hero Ron Paul himself and who even voted against reaffirming In God We Trust as our national motto and against a bill banning sex-selection abortions (thus giving Democrats ammunition to say that opposition to those bills was “bipartisan”). Bentivolio could be even worse than Amash, since he is openly pro-abortion and is a complete cypher on many issues.
The special election will be held under the old lines, which don’t favor the GOP very much. Fortunately, the special general will be on the same day as the regular general election, so there is no chance of the RAT running as an incumbent.
I don’t care about your establishment RINO. I don’t vote in that district and don’t want to hear any more about it. I just provide info for others to check out on their own.
Take your angry screeching elsewhere
IMHO....union/democrat “payback” for Wisconsin?
Jus a hunch....
Neither Bill Hardiman nor Nancy Cassis are “establishment RINOs.” Amash and Bentivolio are, however, Ron Paul-style libertarians who refuse to protect innocent human life in the womb, denigrate the U.S. military, and generally run interference for liberal Democrats.
EPIC-MRA poll shows Nancy Cassis (the write-in candidate) leading Bentivolio by 52%-36%.
That should make most MI-11 Republicans sigh in relief, since Cassis is a sure winner in November. Paulistinians are deeply saddened, though.
But there’s sad news for all with respect to the MI-06 primary between RINO Fred Upton and conservative challenger Jack Hoogendyk. EPIC-MRA shows Upton ahead by 61%-31%. I hope that the poll is dead wrong, but EPIC-MRA is pretty good in MI, and that margin is so large that it doesn’t appear possible for Hoogendyk to win. Conservatives should still pull for Hoogendyk, of course, but we shouldn’t get our hopes up.
IDK about anyone else who can’t look past their own nose to see that Bentivolio is Paulbot failure but I’m very glad.
Horrible about the Upton race though. He got what, 43% last time? And he seems to running a more vigorous and noticed challenge this time.
Yeah, sucks about Upton. I can think of two reasons for Upton doing better this year (and, no, they’re not on his niece): he had two years to prepare, and he is now a committee chairman.
:-D
If she hit the trail for him we'd be done.
But yes conservatives caught him napping last time.
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