The Thaddeus McCotter 2012 presidential campaign began when McCotter filed papers on July 1, 2011, to run for the Republican Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States. He officially announced his candidacy the next day at a rock festival near Detroit. McCotter, a congressman from Michigan since 2003, was first mentioned as a potential candidate on an April 2011 episode of the Fox News show Red Eye. During his campaign, he focused on reform of government and Wall Street. Commentators noted that McCotter's lack of name recognition hindered his chances; he regularly received less than one percent support in Republican presidential preference polls. Following a last-place finish in the Ames Straw Poll and the lack of any invitation to presidential debates, he dropped his candidacy on September 22, 2011, and endorsed Mitt Romney. He resigned from Congress in July 2012 amid a fraud investigation surrounding his congressional re-election campaign.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1927:
Putting Pants on Philip, the first official film featuring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putting_Pants_on_Philip
1967:
Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard
1979:
As per the results of a two-day referendum, the current Constitution of Iran was adopted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Iranian_constitutional_referendum
1990:
Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first female President of Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Mary_Robinson
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
worthwhileness: The condition or extent of being worthwhile. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/worthwhileness
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand ever so much — everything — in a flash — before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence. --Lord Jim https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Jim