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Tag: Michigan. Congress

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By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Wed May 30, 2012 at 07:06:45 AM EST
Tags: Michigan. Congress, Signatures, Thaddeus McCotter, MIGOP (all tags)

After the SOS was through, that was the number of legit signatures left.

Though he personally did not commit the criminal acts, it was his judgement of character to have hired whomever was responsible for this:

"A review by The Detroit News of the petition signatures found full copies of a sheet of signatures that were photocopied once and in some cases two times and mixed in with the 136-page stack of signatures. In some cases, a different petition circulator's name was signed to the duplicate copy.
The overt copying is "frankly unheard of," said Chris Thomas, Michigan's director of elections, as he thumbed through the stack of petitions. "It's amazing when you sit and look, and it starts to dwell on you what they've done."

Thad McCotter was pretty well toast the minute the first duplicate was signed by a second scoundrel in his campaign.

It will be an interesting thing to watch as McCotter takes an underdog position as a write-in candidate while simultaneously fighting the fallout commentary from this affair. It will also be interesting to see if the MIGOP adopts its usual support-the-incumbent position, things being what they are.

We clean up our own mess indeed.

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Not Something You Might Expect

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Fri May 25, 2012 at 11:40:25 PM EST
Tags: Michigan. Congress, Signatures, Thaddeus McCotter, Kerry Bentivolio (all tags)

As you read this, there are interesting happenings that have an unknown possibility.

According to reliable news outlets, Michigan Representative Thaddeus McCotter may not be on the ballot this year.

"In preparation for the August Republican Congressional Primary, the Bureau of Elections did what is called a "face review" of the petition signatures that McCotter turned in as part of his re-election campaign in the 11th Congressional District.
That review suggested that McCotter may not have enough valid signatures to be put on the ballot."

Excuse me, say what? Wow?

If this is true, one must ask .. how?

According to the Unofficial SOS primary count, on the last day, team McCotter turned in 2000 signatures. Only 1000 are needed. Thad McCotter Turned in 553 more signatures than Kerry Bentvolio, a Republican primary challenger, yet his turn in of May 14th (a day before the deadline) doesn't seem to be creating a stir. For a "face count" to demonstrate a potential loss of more than half of signatures gathered, it is a sign of real trouble for the veteran congressman McCotter.

Something big is going to break. I can feel it.

Stay tuned.

As an aside, if it is determined McCotter is ineligible, Veteran and educator Bentvolio will need to start raising cash FAST in order to compete properly and hold the seat for Republicans in the SE district CD11.

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