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TexasTowelie

(111,296 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 01:19 AM Dec 2014

Kerry Bentivolio Kicked Out Of The GOP Cult-- And Forced To Sell All His Reindeer



"This is what happens," groused Kerry Bentivolio, "when a regular guy gets an opportunity to come to Congress." He's feeling pretty aggrieved all around. Not many Republicans lost their seats this year. But Bentivolio did-- and he lost ugly to Michigan's foreclosure king, who unleashed a torrent of cash-- over $4,000,000, including $3,623,402 from his own bank account-- to smear him mercilessly from Canton, Livonia and Novi to Auburn Hills and Washington, DC. In the end Trott and his Establishment allies beat him 138,229 (56.1%) to 100,665 (40.8%). Bentivolio calls himself a "a regular guy," but that's a bit of a stretch. He's an unconventional guy with a typical Tea Party sense of victimhood and way to independent-minded to fit in with garden variety, button-downed Republicans. He never really fit in anywhere in DC and, as disgusting as everyone acknowledges Trott is, not many are going to cry in their beers over the premature end of Bentivolio's accidental ascension to Congress.

Some Republican thugs are going in the opposite direction-- trying to wipe out the memory that he ever existed! Trott sent out word that he wouldn't be interested in any Bentivolio staffers and that he wouldn't look favorably on anyone else who hired any of them.

Bentivolio had hired a martial arts trainer from Ann Arbor, Robert Dindoffer, as his senior advisor and then gave him the job of campaign manager, firing him 7 months later. Dindoffer is widely considered a real scumbag and he's one of the leading forces behind Michigan Republicans' efforts to steal electoral votes by changing the way the state apportions them between candidates. When Bentivolio fired him-- basically for submitting false expenses and stealing from the campaign-- Dindoffier sued over some weird contract with a typically Republican type scam to extract more money from the campaign than is normal. Republicans always do this to each other.

Although he isn't willing to talk about it, Bentivolio has made it clear that Dindoffer wasn't just scamming the cash-strapped campaign for money but was also disloyal and looking out for himself, not his boss. This week a local judge ruled that Bentivolio has to pay Dindoffer $120,000.

- See more at: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2014/12/kerry-bentivolio-kicked-out-of-gop-cult.html
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Kerry Bentivolio Kicked Out Of The GOP Cult-- And Forced To Sell All His Reindeer (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2014 OP
Lol Canoe52 Dec 2014 #1
I'm feeling a tad sorry for the wack job AndreaCG Dec 2014 #2
Maybe the eastern part of the state could secede? Demeter Dec 2014 #3
Ha, Ha, Ha LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 #4

AndreaCG

(2,331 posts)
2. I'm feeling a tad sorry for the wack job
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 07:10 AM
Dec 2014

In that the wack job is marginally better than the fraudster who's probably a wack job too.

 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
3. Maybe the eastern part of the state could secede?
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 10:16 AM
Dec 2014

Who would vote for such people? They all sound like they should be sharing a cell.

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