The bizarre story of a cover-up of a relationship in Lansing takes a strange course. The Detroit News reports that State Rep. Todd Courser, a Republican from Lapeer, claims he put out a story accusing himself of paying a male prostitute for sex to “expose” individuals trying to blackmail him into resigning office over a relationship with Rep. Cindy Gamrat.
In his first response to the story, Courser claimed his former aides were behind the anonymous text messages he received, threatening to expose his relationship with Gamrat, a Republican from Plainwell.
“The email in question was really put in motion to disrupt, disrupt the blackmailer and to give me some clues as to what their ability was as far as surveillance over my life and the threats they were making,” Courser said in an audio recording released this morning.
There have been some calls for Courser and Gamrat to resign from office.