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Related: About this forumHopefully 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
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DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)1. Keep us posted.
Thanks.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)2. We can hope
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,728 posts)3. And of course.....
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!
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?