Holy Crap: Family Values Win Out Edition
You guys remember Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, two Michigan Tea Party Super DeLuxe Brand Christians who got caught doing the hanky panky and tried to make up a gay cover story because gays are yucky?
After a pretty brutal floor fight, Courser just gave up and resigned at 3:00 a.m. Yeah, a.m. It was brutal. Gamrat wouldn’t budge.
Yet Gamrat held out. She had told reporters that she was promised censure by Republican leadership when she signed a statement about her role in the affair and cover-up, according to MLive.
“I know in my heart the mistakes I’ve made are not all the mistakes in the report,” she said on the state House floor early Friday morning, according to MLive. “I still believe my actions warrant censure, but not expulsion.”
She was expelled in a 91-12 vote around 4 a.m. on Friday morning, according to the Detroit Free Press.
She says she’s going to run for the seat again even though she’s been expelled. Remember Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction? Cindy Gamrat.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
According to the latest, both Todd and Cindy are running to get their seats back! Can someone explain to them the biblical concept of SHAME!
1Gamrat reports that after she was kicked to the curb a jogger gave her a hug and a godly message which inspires her to return to the chamber floor to perpetrate even more bible bigotry. The godly messages in their good book to be nonjudgmental and kind never seem to materialize after decades of marketing the deity as an on demand weapon of mass destruction.
2I’ll give Cindy Gamrat this much credit, she does have the word rat right in her name. It should have clued us in from the start. Once she found her way into the House, the Michigan House of Representatives, she’s gonna be hard to get rid of.
3Glenn Close is much more believable.
4Kudos to the Michigan lege for getting that vote right. I would like the names of the 12 confirmed idiots in their midst.
I’m ok with each of them running again, in spite of the unseemliness of doing so. IMHO there is a chance each will be rejected by voters in their re-do election.
5Todd Courser’s Twitter announcement is chock full of responses about his & his mistress’ family values. https://twitter.com/Todd_Courser/with_replies
6The 12 confirmed idiots are probably similarly involved.
7Who are Courser & Gamrat going to represent? Local Ashley Madison voters?
Being right wing instills a certainty that whatever they do isn’t them doing it. Some outside force (aka leftists) is victimizing them when they get caught doing what they do.
Gamrat acts as if she’s the victim of some dark force instead of getting caught with her family values zipper down.
Says the tea stained holy roller victim: “People keep telling me they feel terrible about what has happened to me and my family.”
8Its one thing to yammer about a sweet revenge rerun for office. Its a whole nuther thing to manage all the damn paperwork and slop to get on the ballot whilst outrunning ambush journalists who are going to make a huge haystack out of all this in their quest for a Pulitzer!
9SC voters put Sanders back in office so I’m not too trusting of voter sensibilities.
10ANd, if either of them is re-elected, the legislature could vote to expel them again. Just sayin’.
11My Lapeer County, MI ancestors are probably spinning in their early 19th century graves.
These bible-thumping ‘baggers have an absolutely unshakable faith in their twisted alternative universe.
12Next thing: Gamrat and Courser both will announce they’re getting divorces and relinquishing custody of their children so that they can stay hooked up with each other. If they thought that voters would believe Courser’s yarn about back alley gay sex, then surely the electorate won’t have any problem with these two “recalibrating their relationships.” Right?
13(sigh) They’ve both been forgiven, of course, so now they can go back to what they were doing before.
Sometimes I worry about the Xtian electorate.
14Hey, this wouldn’t have been a problem if they hadn’t been caught…
You know, like the rebels that dumped the T…
15Merry,
Don’t you mean good ol’ Mark “hiking the Appalachian Trail” Sanford, former guv of SC; who then didn’t leave office until term-limited out.
He then ran for, and won, a SC US Representative seat. What that says about SCians I’d rather not know (but as a Texan know enough).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sanford_disappearance_and_extramarital_affair#Impeachment_proceedings_and_censure
16Susan–yes, his Twitter account is a hoot, if you’ve got a taste for irony (and major hubris and dishonesty).
After his whine that people just didn’t know about how he’d voted for this and that legislation, I felt compelled to tweet that his sex behavior and lies were more an issue than his voting record.
17This kind’a make me wonder… If the (a) legislatorial body can remove their own misconducting comrades, how is it that they (it) can’t remove… say, a misconducting county clerk that refuses to do her/his job?
18@oldymoldy – Courser and Gamrat were subject to the rules of the Michigan House. Under their respective constitutions which provide for separation of powers of the branches of government, legislatures at the national and state levels have the absolute power to expel members (excepting constitutional human rights guarantees), without interference by their executive or judicial branches. Laws respecting the removal from office of Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, come under that state’s legal authority, however. There are no Kentucky laws or constutional provisions for her removal from office by electoral recall or executive action (in other words, the governor or judges have no power to fire her.). It may be legally possible for the legislature to impeach her, but that branch is not scheduled to meet until January and the governor has said that he will not call a special session in this case. So it appears that Davis’s constituents are stuck with her until her term is up, and then some if she succeeds in getting reelected.
19I may be wrong but isn’t she a southern babtist? If this is true it’s all good for her just like it is for me. I’m a long haired country boy born in Kentucky went to High School in Jenks Oklahoma and was babtised in the southern babtist church at age 3 months and my everlasting soul was saved for all time so I’ve been informed. I truly don’t remember the ceremony but I suppose that even though I’m a godless liberal it’s kinda comforting to know some people think my life is worth saving or something.
20Well no I guess I really don’t care but it’s kinda fun messing with certain people that refuse to accept reality and instead rely on religion to make decisions for them instead of thinking with a more critical mind.
On expelled Rep. Cindy Gamrat’s re-election bid:
No.
This is the joint opinion of the Grand Rapids Press and Kalamazoo Gazette editorial boards, whose newspaper coverage areas include the 80th District.
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/on_expelled_rep_cindy_gamrats.html
[A Washington Post reporter called this “probably the best political editorial in newspaper history.”]
21WA: “Sometimes I worry about the Xtian electorate.” Babe, I don’t worry about them at all, except in the sense that they might not feel the full weight of Karma. I’m not that Christian.
22Well, if Cindy’s a Baptist, isn’t she supposed to refrain from extramarital sex? After all, it could lead to dancing.
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