More fake petitions for Thaddeus McCotter discovered [View all]
Source: Detroit Free Press
More fake petitions for Thaddeus McCotter discovered
August 16, 2012
By Kathleen Gray and Joe Swickard
Detroit Free Press Staff Writers
The staff of former U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter evidently had some practice dummying up petitions in order to get their boss on the ballot.
A review of the nominating petitions turned in for McCotter's elections from 2002 through 2012 shows he did not have enough signatures to qualify to run in at least the 2008, 2010 and 2012 elections. The skullduggery wasn't detected until this year, when a part-time staffer for the Secretary of State found that of the more than 1,800 signatures turned in by the McCotter campaign for 2012, only 244 were valid.
McCotter's spokesman, Randall Thompson, did not return calls seeking comment on the latest revelations in the scandal that led to McCotter's resignation from Congress in July.
The petitions from McCotter's previous campaigns surfaced this week from Mark Grebner, president of Practical Political Consulting, one of the premier developers of voting lists for political candidates. As part of compiling such lists, the East Lansing company uses voting records and nominating petitions and had McCotter's going back to his first run for Congress, in 2002.
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