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<blockquote data-quote="bottomups" data-source="post: 1841537" data-attributes="member: 29452">LANSING — The state’s Bureau of Elections has concluded former state Rep. Cindy Gamrat, a Plainwell Republican, is eligible to try to regain her seat in Michigan’s 80th House District, despite her recent expulsion from the Legislature, a spokesman said Monday.House Speaker Kevin Cotter, R-Mt. Pleasant, was among those who questioned Gamrat&#039;s eligibility to run in a special primary and general election, given that she was <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/10/gamrat-courser-hearings-michigan/71993248/" target="_blank">expelled from the House of Representatives</a> on Sept. 11 for using House resources to try to cover up an extramarital affair with another former state representative, Todd Courser of Lapeer.Courser, who admitted to instructing a House staffer to send out a bogus e-mail accusing himself of being a pornography addict who pays for gay sex in an effort to minimize the impact of his extramarital affair with Gamrat being revealed, resigned his seat in the 82nd House District on Sept. 11, just ahead of an expected expulsion vote.But both have since filed to run in special primary elections on Nov. 3 to get their seats back, saying the voters should decide whether they stay in the Legislature. The special general election is set for March 8.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bottomups, post: 1841537, member: 29452"] LANSING — The state’s Bureau of Elections has concluded former state Rep. Cindy Gamrat, a Plainwell Republican, is eligible to try to regain her seat in Michigan’s 80th House District, despite her recent expulsion from the Legislature, a spokesman said Monday. House Speaker Kevin Cotter, R-Mt. Pleasant, was among those who questioned Gamrat's eligibility to run in a special primary and general election, given that she was [URL='http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/10/gamrat-courser-hearings-michigan/71993248/']expelled from the House of Representatives[/URL] on Sept. 11 for using House resources to try to cover up an extramarital affair with another former state representative, Todd Courser of Lapeer. Courser, who admitted to instructing a House staffer to send out a bogus e-mail accusing himself of being a pornography addict who pays for gay sex in an effort to minimize the impact of his extramarital affair with Gamrat being revealed, resigned his seat in the 82nd House District on Sept. 11, just ahead of an expected expulsion vote. But both have since filed to run in special primary elections on Nov. 3 to get their seats back, saying the voters should decide whether they stay in the Legislature. The special general election is set for March 8. [/QUOTE]

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