 l brooks patterson pushing mccotter for us senate oakland county executive l brooks patterson thinks congressman mccotter would be a good candidate to take on debbie stabenow in 2012 patterson said he s a smart guy he s very acerbic as we could see when he took on romney and i wouldn t discount him if he ran for stabenow s seat he would be stabenow s worst nightmare for an article on a potential candidacy by mccotter from wwwdailytribunecom click on the following story link  http wwwdailytribunecom articles 20110615 news politics doc4df8d1e 