A sex scandal has erupted in the Michigan House of Representatives involving an area lawmaker. An extramarital affair between Republicans Representatives Cindy Gamrat of Plainwell and Todd Courser of Lapeer has been uncovered by “The Detroit News” thanks to secret audio recordings made by a former Courser aide. Ben Graham was instructed by Courser to send out an email to Republicans claiming the representative from Lapeer was caught having sex with a male prostitute in order to “inoculate the herd” and make the affair seem tame.
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Graham disagreed with the tactic.
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In the recording Graham gave to the paper, Courser admits he had not told his family about the affair, but Gamrat’s husband knew and the two were trying to work through it.
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Gamrat and Courser are both in their first terms in the state House, and combined their legislative offices earlier this year. They also issued their own response to Governor Snyder’s State of the State address, and set up their own legislative coalition to challenge establishment Republicans in the House. Courser says in the recordings that Gamrat’s husband knows about the affair, but his family did not.
