Cranbrook alumni from Class of '65 recall clever prankster with senior year romance that endures.
Mitt Romney comes across as a no-nonsense former governor and corporate leader on TV and at campaign rallies, which he'll hold in this area soon during primary month. Those who knew him as a southeast Michigan teen, by contrast, recall an occasionally mischievous prep school prankster. A new book has examples of Romney the rascal. "I am surprised when I read about him being stiff and humorless," Cranbrook School classmate Graham McDonald told the authors of The Real Romney, published this month. "That is the opposite image I have of him. He was almost slapstick to a fault." Gregg Dearth of Guilford, CT, a fellow Class of '65 graduate reached by Patch, recalls buying large ice blocks from a gas station for nighttime rides on a closed golf …
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The Livonia congressman announced his presidential campaign and played guitar at the Whitmore Lake festival Saturday.
U.S. Rep Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) made his message loud and clear Saturday when he announced he was seeking a bid for the White House. The congressman announced before a crowd of a few hundred people Saturday that he is in the race for president of the United States — then brought out his American flag-themed guitar to play some bluesy rock music at the Freedom Festival at Whitmore Lake, sponsored by conservative talk radio station WAAM-AM (1600). McCotter represents Michigan's 11th congressional district, which includes Canton, Garden City, Livonia, Milford, Novi, Northville, Plymouth, Redford, South Lyon, Westland and White Lake. He was elected in November to his fifth consecutive term. He was joined onstage by his wife and two of …
Herb Helzer
3:47 pm on Thursday, February 9, 2012
This Monday marks an important milestone in the life of Willard "Mitt" Romney: Five years ago, on 13 February 2007, Romney formally announced his candidacy for President of the United States. Say what you will about his "private sector" experience or the time spent at Bain Capital -- for the past 60 months the only thing he's done is run for President. Even during the period between his 2008 … more ›