State Rep Wanted to Cover Up Affair With Fake Gay Sex Scandal

State Rep. Todd Courser’s idea for a fake public smear campaign to cover up an extramarital affair with a fellow lawmaker had all the misdirection and intricate espionage of a John Le Carre spy novel.

In the end, though, it turned into a Scooby-Doo episode with Courser (R-Lapeer) lamenting, “I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for my meddling aide recording me,” being the only thing missing from it.

As part of an effort to conceal his relationship with State Rep. Cindy Gamrat (R-Plainwell), Courser, a married father of four, devised a scheme to release a bogus email that claimed he had sex with a male prostitute, according to audio recordings from May acquired by The Detroit News.

The Detroit News also discovered that Courser, 43, and Gamrat, 42, who is married with three children, used their taxpayer-funded positions to keep and conceal their illicit relationship. Both legislators refused to comment about the recording.

»LISTEN: Check Out The Detroit News to Hear Courser and his Aide Discuss the Bogus Email

The email, which was sent by an unknown party May 20 and 21, was part of a byzantine plan to create an outrageous campaign to tarnish Courser’s reputation and spread disinformation that the eventual discovery of Courser and Gamrat’s affair would be tame by comparison, the report stated. The strategy involved emailing Republican supporters a “cover story” from an unknown political opponent that accused Courser of paid gay sex behind a Lansing nightclub, the report added.

Unfortunately, his Keyser Souze-level scheme devolved into a Dr. Evil-level snafu thanks to a former aide who recorded Courser’s conniving without the legislator’s knowledge, which is legal in Michigan. To his credit, the aide advised Courser against this plan of action, calling it crazy and telling his then-boss he wouldn’t participate in the cover-up, the report stated.

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That’s why the aide wouldn’t take a sick day ordered by Courser the day the email was sent, The News reported. The aide then was fired by early July, the report added.

And the irony that smothers this scandal cupcake like an avalanche of buttercream frosting? Courser and Gamrat have built reputations for themselves for their Christian-based and socially conservative politically views, the report stated. The incognito couple, in fact, have described themselves as “tea party gladitors” after rising through that group’s ranks.

Interestingly, Courser was recorded as referring to those same tea party followers as “the herd” that needed to be inoculated from the impropriety of his affair by the lawmaker’s fictional scandal, according to The News.

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PHOTOS: State reps. Todd Courser (R-Lapeer) and Cindy Gamrat (R-Plainwell) | CREDITS: Twitter.com