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marmar

(77,081 posts)
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 01:50 PM Nov 2015

Hopefully after today, we'll never hear these names again..........





LANSING — Two disgraced former state representatives are fighting to get their seats back in special primary elections Tuesday, and a third state House primary will help choose a successor to former state Rep. Brandon Dillon of Grand Rapids, who resigned to become chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party.

The winners of the primaries will compete in special general elections on March 8.

Todd Courser of Lapeer and Cindy Gamrat of Plainwell, two freshman Republican tea party lawmakers who espouse traditional family values, admitted to having an extramarital affair and misusing state House resources to try to cover it up. Each is married with children. ...................(more)

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/03/courser-gamrat-house-michigan/75084202/




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Hopefully after today, we'll never hear these names again.......... (Original Post) marmar Nov 2015 OP
Keep us posted. DinahMoeHum Nov 2015 #1
We can hope etherealtruth Nov 2015 #2
And of course..... N_E_1 for Tennis Nov 2015 #3
Hey! I Hope They Win! NonMetro Nov 2015 #4

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,728 posts)
3. And of course.....
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 02:14 PM
Nov 2015

It's costing the taxpayers plenty, into the six figure realm.

Check out this article from Detroit Free Press:

Courser-Gamrat special elections to cost thousands

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/10/30/special-elections-costly-lapeer-allegan-counties/74889456/

I can't get over that they were even allowed to run again so soon or ever. Should have been part of the punishment.

NonMetro

(631 posts)
4. Hey! I Hope They Win!
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 09:10 PM
Nov 2015

I want to watch the GOP squirm while they figure out what to do with these two Republican hypocrites again!

I wonder where they're shacked up tonight?

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