Thaddeus McCotter

Thaddeus McCotter George, also named as Thad McCotter, ( born August 22, 1965 in Livonia, Michigan) is an American politician. As a member of the Republican Party, he was from 2003 to 2012 Member of the House of Representatives of the United States, where Republican Policy Committee Chairman.

Biography

Thaddeus McCotter made ​​in 1987 at the University of Detroit with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in political science. At the same university he then studied law, which he completed in 1990 with the degree of Juris Doctor. He then practiced as a lawyer. From 1992 to 1998, he was elected to the local self-government ( Commission) of Wayne County. From 1998 to 2002 he sat in the Senate from Michigan.

Political career

McCotter was representative for the 11th Congressional District of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives, a district in which the auto industry is of great importance from January 2003. He was active in the Committee on Financial Services and its subcommittees on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government - Sponsored Enterprises and Housing and Community Opportunity. In November 2006, his colleagues elected him chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee.

From 2005, McCotter was a guitarist in the country-rock band Second Amendments, whose members are all members of the House of Representatives. On official trips abroad, the band uses the evenings to show with performances stationed there U.S. soldiers their support. There were performances in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Pakistan and the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. There were also performances in the United States, such as Farm Aid and a picnic of Congress in the garden of the White House.

In advance of Obama's campaign speech in Berlin in 2008 McCotter wrote in an opinion piece for The World: "Obama is a populist and his politics is messy ."

Signature forgery and resignation

McCotter competed in 2011 in the primaries of the Republican Party for the office of U.S. president, withdrew his candidacy but after a few months back. Then he decided to apply again for his former seat in the House of Representatives at the 2012 election, and gave his documents for the application to the code of the Republicans for this congress seat; However, it has been demonstrated that its employees had falsified signatures in a big way on his endorser lists, why McCotter resigned in July 2012 from his office. In retrospect, it was announced during a prosecutor's investigation that already in the past elections since 2006 McCotters employees partly forgeries had been committed. In April 2013 it was announced that McCotter has filed suit against its former employee because of this fraud, because he accuses them intentional sabotage.

Private

Thaddeus McCotter is married to the nurse Rita McCotter. You have the children George, Timothy and Emilia. McCotter is Roman Catholic.