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Michigan Rep. McCotter drops, throws support to Romney

By | 09.22.11 | 5:29 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, a Michigan Republican, is bidding farewell to the national campaign trail while handing his support to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. 

McCotter also decries exclusion from upcoming GOP debate

By | 09.02.11 | 12:45 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

A Michigan Congressman says rules connected to invitations to an upcoming 2012 GOP presidential debate appear to have purposefully excluded certain candidates, including himself, from participating.

Perry pledges to select only ‘pro-life’ cabinet members if president

By | 08.24.11 | 4:37 pm

Texas Gov. Rick Perry — currently in the lead, according to Gallup, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012 — signed (PDF) on Wednesday the Susan B. Anthony List’s controversial anti-abortion pledge.

Perry to co-chair gala for influential anti-abortion rights group

By | 08.15.11 | 2:50 pm

Following his formal entrance into the 2012 presidential race on Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed on to co-chair an anniversary gala for the influential anti-abortion rights policy group Americans United for Life, which was founded in 1971.

McCotter promises shrunken government

By | 08.13.11 | 6:20 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

AMES — Thaddeus McCotter, a relative newcomer to the 2012 field, didn’t take the stage in the Hilton Coliseum to a floor packed with supporters that were waving signs. Despite that, his ending applause rivaled that of the frontrunners.

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McCotter: ‘We understand that we can only have a prosperous economy if we have a virtuous citizenry’

By | 08.11.11 | 3:34 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Appearing as part of an Iowa bus tour launched by national religious conservatives, U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told Iowans Thursday that fiscal and social issues aren’t separable.

McCotter urges conservative activists to push government restructuring

By | 08.11.11 | 12:53 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Thaddeus McCotter praised grassroots activists in Iowa, saying his own “most fulfilling and rewarding” political position was when he was elected as a precinct delegate in his own neighborhood in the 1980s. He believes history has been changed, and will be changed again, on the shoulders of average Americans.

Snyder signs Michigan GOP redistricting plan

By | 08.10.11 | 9:18 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed a GOP redistricting plan into law. The new law resets the state’s district maps for state house and senate elections as well as federal congressional elections.

SBA List president explains why candidates must commit to ‘pro-life’ appointments, why Huntsman is ‘vague’ on abortion

By | 07.22.11 | 12:51 pm

On the same day GOP presidential contender Jon Huntsman’s campaign manager resigned, the leader of the anti-abortion rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony List said the SBA List is not supporting the candidate in his current campaign stage because he did not sign the group’s abortion-centric presidential pledge.

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McCotter, Liddy invent the death of the incandescent light bulb

U.S. Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) says Republican Rep. Fred Upton and the Democrats are denying Americans an opportunity to innovate — and he seems to have invented a law that does not exist.

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