Paulitical Ticker: Paul 1, Santorum – 0 in MI-11
Kerry Bentivolio is a great liberty candidate running for Congress in Michigan’s 11th District. Bentivolio has been endorsed by Ron Paul, Rand Paul and Justin Amash.
His Republican primary opponent was Nancy Cassis, endorsed by Rick Santorum and much of the Illinois GOP establishment.
Reports Human Events:
Near-final results showed 60-year-old Kerry Bentivolio, an area leader in Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, winning more than 60 percent of the vote over Nancy Cassis, former state senator who ran as a write-in candidate…
Obviously alarmed at the thought of a Paul man being their nominee, local GOP leaders rallied behind the 68-year-old Cassis…
And it didn’t matter. The liberty candidate still won.
The American Spectator’s James Antle framed Bentivolio’s victory:
Kerry Bentivolio easily beat back a party-supported write-in campaign by Nancy Cassis to win the Republican nomination in Thad McCotter’s old district. Bentivolio is a Ron Paul fan and Federal Reserve critic. One Michigan Republican who supported him Justin Amash, the neighboring congressman who was also renominated last night.
