“The voters have been left out of the process”, she says. “I can’t control that part of it”, she said.
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“It’s not easy. None of this is easy”, Gamrat told FOX 17. “I think that they ought to have a voice in this matter”. War veteran Shannon Szukala said despite the scandal, he thought she did a good job while serving.
“What weighed really heavy on me this whole time, was I felt it was really important for my voters to have a voice in this”.
With the departure of Gamrat and Courser, the number of votes needed to pass a minimum $1.2 billion road-funding plan with fuel and vehicle registration tax hikes is 54 instead of 56.
Six other Republican candidates have filed in Lapeer County, but so far Courser is not one of them.
Gamrat tells Local 4 she’s discussed running for her former seat with her husband and children and they’re on board.
“Cindy Gamrat’s personal actions and penchant for dishonesty have indelibly tarnished the conservative movement in Michigan”, former Gamrat aide Keith Allard said.
Last Friday, she became just the fourth state lawmaker in history to be expelled for violating House rules in relation to covering up an adulterous affair with fellow freshman Republican Todd Courser of Lapeer, necessitating the primary and a special March 8 general election to fill her seat. An investigation found the two used state resources to try to cover-up the affair.
“Even listening to elected officials, they said Cindy never went to a single meeting”.
“It wouldn’t take that many votes in order to get the Republican nomination”, Clark said.
Allegan County Commissioner Jim Storey has also said he intends to file. The Allegan County Democratic Party says retired federal judge David Gernant of Plainwell plans to announce his candidacy at a Friday 3 p.m. courthouse event.
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In May, Courser attempted to hide the relationship by circulating an email saying that he had been caught with a male prostitute.
