U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre is well-known as a blue-dog Democrat.
So perhaps it's not surprising that his potential Republican opponent next year was also a conservative Democrat for a brief period.
Will Breazeale, who will kick off his campaign for the Republican nomination tomorrow, registered to vote as a Democrat on Feb. 19, 2004. He voted in Democratic primaries on July 20 and Aug. 17 of that year, and was listed as a Democrat in a voter's guide when he ran for White Lake town council.
On Nov. 17, 2005, nine days after losing that race, he switched to Republican.
Breazeale is no stranger to the GOP. A Feb. 13, 2000, article in the New York Daily News noted that he showed up in his Army uniform at a rally for Sen. John McCain in South Carolina.
Campaign spokesman Rob Boyce said Breazeale is principled.
"He's been a Republican and he is conservative," he said.
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