Thaddeus McCotter Resigns

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan is resigning from Congress.

Read his statement announcing his immediate resignation.

For Immediate Release
July 6, 2012

McCotter: "Strike Another Match, Go Start Anew"
Cites the totality of this past 'nightmarish' month and a half's effect on his family

LIVONIA, MI - Today, U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter made the following statement:

"Today I have resigned from the office of United States Representative for Michigan's 11th Congressional District.

After nearly 26 years in elected office, this past nightmarish month and a half have, for the first time, severed the necessary harmony between the needs of my constituency and of my family. As this harmony is required to serve, its absence requires I leave.

The recent event's totality of calumnies, indignities and