State charges 4 former McCotter staffers with forging petitions, faking signatures in election fiasc

[brooklynite]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Four staffers of former U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter, R-Livonia were charged today in connection with the false nominating petitions that led to McCotter's departure from Congress.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette described the four as "not simply Keystone Kops running amok ... criminal acts were committed."

He said the petition forgeries and cut-and-paste jobs on the petitions "would make an elementary art teacher cringe."

Schuette said the McCotter staffers also likely did the same thing in the 2008 elections, using 2006 petition signatures.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20120809/NEWS15/120809030/State-charges-4-McCotter-ex-staffers-forging-petitions-faking-signatures-election-fiasco

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The things some people will do to hold onto their jobs (or maybe their Government-paid health insurance).

[nanabugg]

1. So the only major voting fraud so far has been by the GOP??? nt

[atreides1]

2. This is hilarious

His own people! Talk about totally oblivious to what your staffers are doing...makes you wonder what was going on when the man was in Washington D.C.

[Denninmi]

3. Yeah, well, I wonder if McCotter is a victim of this, or just letting his people take the fall?

Frankly, I think it's worse that he is gone in the sense that an ultra-crazy teabagger just won the R primary in this district, which will be MY district next term. The Dem that won our primary sounds really promising, he's a physican and on the Canton Twp board, BUT, hate to say it, he is Indian and I bet a lot of bigots won't vote for him when they see Syeh Taj on the ballot. So I'm afraid we're going to be stuck with a crazy bagger.