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Rep. Thaddeus McCotter Resigns After 'Nightmarish' Month
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Jul 06, 2012 05:30pm |
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| Category | Announcement |
| Author | Amy Bingham |
| News Date | Friday, July 6, 2012 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rep. Thaddeus McCotter has apparently reached his breaking point. The Michigan Republican announced Friday evening that he is resigning from Congress after a string of "calumnies, indignities and deceits."
In the past year McCotter failed at running for president, failed to collect enough petition signatures to get on the ballot for his re-election and, to add insult to injury, stirred up controversy this week after a racy TV pilot he wrote was leaked to the press by a former staffer.
"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 that was as unique as the representative that wrote it. "As this harmony is required to serve, its absence requires I leave." |
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