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Thaddeus McCotter Resigns from Congress

6663 Wrote: Jul 06, 2012 11:10 PM
This guy is awesome and reflects the true spirit of freedom and liberty that this country was founded upon. I hate to see him leaving congress. We need many, many more people like him... not fewer. Damnit.

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, who ran for president in 2012 and served in Congress for nearly a decade representing Michigan’s 11th district, unexpectedly resigned from the House late Friday night.

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

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