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He seems to have been in complete meltdown mode since the voter names petition got so screwed up. Don't know if he was sabotaged from within or if his staff was inept or if running for Prez took his eye completely off the ball. He is a solid conservative in a district with a heavy union presence. He will be missed.

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.

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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.