McCotter staffers charged with multiple felonies for election fraud.
According to the Washington Times, four staff members of the Thaddeus McCotter “crew” were charged today with multiple counts of election fraud by Michigan Attorney General, Bill Schuette.
The investigation focused on the improper gathering of signatures required to put the Republican congressman on the Michigan ballot. Of the more than 1,800 signatures his campaign turned in, just a couple hundred were determined to be valid, with many forgeries and copies of previous ballot signatures presented.
Another news source, MIRS news reports,
Don YOWCHUANG, Paul SEEWALD, Mary Melissa TURNBULL and Lorianne O’BRADY are being charged with photocopying 2006 petitions and then turning them in to the Secretary of State as being legitimately collected petitions for the 2012 primary election. There is evidence that the “McCotter crew” may have done something similar as far back as 2008.
Yowchuang, 33, McCotter’s former deputy district director, is facing 17 charges, 10 counts of Election Law forgery, a five-year felony; one county of conspiracy to commit a legal act in an illegal manner, a five-year felony; and six counts of falsely signing a nominating petitions as circulator, a 93-day misdemeanor.
Sewald, 47, McCotter’s district director, is facing one five-year felony for conspiracy to commit a legal act and nine courts of falsely signing a nominating petition, a 93-day misdemeanor.
Turnbull, 58, of Howell, is being charged with one 93-day misdemeanor. O’Brady, 52, was charged with five 93-day misdemeanors of falsely signing signing a nominating petition.
Thaddeus McCotter ran for President for 2012, and as a result of this debacle, resigned in disgrace from the House of Representatives. Kerry Bentivolio won the primary on the Republican side and will face an little known Democrat in November.
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We are the alternative. We will resist. We're not going to surrender to this. We will not be passive, we will not be compliant in our demise. We're not good losers, you better believe we're sore losers! A good loser is a loser forever. Now I hear we're called 'purists.' Conservatives are called purists. The very people who keep nominating moderates, now call us purists the way the left calls us purists. Yeah, things like liberty, and property rights, individual sovereignty, and the Constitution, and capitalism. We're purists now. And we have to hear this crap from conservatives, or pseudo-conservatives, Republicans.
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Snyder pushes to extend Medicaid to 470,000 Michiganders -- 'care for people who need it'
Snyder said Wednesday that he unconditionally supports expanding the state's Medicaid rolls by roughly 470,000 people. There are 1.9 million people receiving benefits now.
"We're all here to support expanding Medicaid," Snyder said at a news conference called by a large coalition of groups that support the expansion. "We're moving forward with care for people who need it."
Editorial: Snyder does right and healthy thing by backing Medicaid expansion
The ever-illogical argument that insuring more people will actually cost less. "But health care providers and advocates for the uninsured argue that the state will actually save money -- as much as $1 billion in the first decade -- if fewer residents have to rely on expensive emergency room facilities to address non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries."
Susan J. Demas: Will Tea Party Republicans fight Rick Snyder on expanding Medicaid under Obamacare?
Susan Dumass is really quite pedestrian. "The only thing standing in between 450,000 low-income Michiganders and health insurance is Tea Party Republicans' deep-seated hatred of Obamacare."
Snyder's big budget plan seeks hikes in gas tax, vehicle registration fees, more
In a switch, GOP governors back expanding Medicaid
This week, Michigan’s Rick Snyder became the sixth GOP governor to propose expanding his state’s health insurance program to cover more low-income residents, in line with the Democratic administration’s strong recommendation.
'Obamacare,' distrust of federal government heat up debate over Medicaid expansion in Michigan
Now that he's made the decision, Snyder must sell the plan to the state legislature, where some members of his own party have repeatedly attempted to distance themselves from the faintest whiff of "Obamacare."
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