Courser and Gamrat
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Joshua Cline, former aide to disgraced state Reps. Todd
Courser and Cindy Gamrat, will tell the “inside story” on the Courser/Gamrat sex
scandal at a Monday press conference

That Royal Oak event follows the Gamrat news conference
on Friday at which the Plainwell Republican apparently gave false information
to the media about two key aspects of the lawmakers’ extramarital affair and attempt
at a coverup.

Cline
Cline was the aide who suddenly quit his legislative
director post in April. He recently said that he resigned after he said he confronted the two lawmakers about
their relationship and “unprofessional” office behavior.

Two other Gamrat/Courser aides, Ben Graham and Keith Allard, were ousted from their jobs several
weeks later after they refused to participate in the cover-up.

At the Gamrat press conference, the freshman legislator denied
any involvement in assisting Courser in writing and distributing a fictitious
email claiming he had sex with a male prostitute to divert attention away from
revelations of their relationship. According to The Detroit News, she said:
“I did not author nor assist in sending the email in question. I was unaware
that this email was sent, but also of its contents until a reporter pointed it
out to me” on Aug. 3.

But in a taped conversation with Graham, Courser said
this about the bizarre cover-up plan:

“This is the best we could come up with.”

In full context,
it seems clear that he was referring to himself and Gamrat.

During that meeting in Courser’s Lapeer law office,
Courser receives a phone call from a person he identified as Gamrat. He can be
heard on the recording telling Gamrat that he is explaining his plan for
distributing the email to Republicans.

“Do you see another option there, Cindy?” Courser asked.

In addition, on Friday Gamrat claimed said that she, like
Courser, was being blackmailed through text messages by someone
threatening to expose their adulterous relationship. She said she turned those
messages over to the Michigan State Police.

However, a state police spokeswoman told the News that
Courser approached the agency on Friday for the first time — and that Gamrat
had not.

“Rep. Courser did come in to the Lapeer post today of his
own accord and spoke to an investigator,” spokeswoman Shanon Banner said. “We
have opened an investigation.

“In regards to Rep. Gamrat, so far as we know, she has
not provided anything to us.”