Tearful Michigan lawmaker breaks silence in email scandal

[jpak]

Source: CNN

(CNN)The other half of an alleged affair in the Michigan Statehouse that resulted in a bizarre fake email about soliciting a male prostitute broke her silence on Friday -- tearfully apologizing and denying any knowledge of the scheme.

Michigan state Rep. Cindy Gamrat spoke with the media for the first time since one of her fellow lawmakers, state Rep. Todd Courser, released a rambling 27-minute audio file apologizing for sending out an email under a pseudonym fabricating a story he solicited a male prostitute, apparently in an attempt to provide cover for an affair he was having with Gamrat.

Though neither Courser nor Gamrat have confirmed the affair, Courser apologized to her and her family in the message and both said they have been working through the issues privately with their spouses and children.

"I want to apologize for the negative attention this has brought, for that I am truly sorry," Gamrat said Friday, fighting tears throughout her news conference at a law firm. "I am sincerely sorry that I have disappointed so many by my actions."

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/14/politics/michigan-lawmaker-fake-prostitute-email/index.html

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but she still won't resign...

[BillZBubb]

1. She'll run again on the weeping "I have sinned" platform

and win.

[Chakab]

5. That shit only works for men.

[Attorney in Texas]

13. That shit only works for Republican men (which is creepy but true)

[Angry Dragon]

2. republican family values

[louis-t]

3. Blah blah blah

[irisblue]

4. She is in a very conservative area of West Michigan.

Holland is a stronghold of Calvinist theology, she will have a hard time keeping her seat.

[greenman3610]

6. guaranteed she'll play the

"I found Jesus" card.

[hatrack]

8. I thought she already found him . . .

Does he keep escaping?

[FiveGoodMen]

15. Yes, he plays dead...

...then as soon as the morgue is empty...

Gone.

[Bryce Butler]

7. She's only sorry she got caught.

[KamaAina]

9. Is there still room in the clown car?

Hell, they could run as a ticket, if one of them pulled a Cheney and moved out of state.

[CTyankee]

10. I just can't figure this thing out...

Anybody have a theory why this guy made up that story to "provide cover"? Couldn't he just have said he was walking the Appalachian Trail or something?

[gatorboy]

11. I think eventually he was going to play victim claiming his cover story was actually a liberal smear campaign.

He apparently has a history of doing this:

http://wonkette.com/592784/michigan-teabagger-fornicator-also-accused-himself-of-child-molestation-for-jesus

[truthisfreedom]

12. Hairbrained scheme.

[LibertyLover]

14. OK, so not only is he a teabagger and a serial liar

but he's a creepy, weirdo, Christo-nutjob teabagger and serial liar. I hope his constituents are proud and happy.

[CTyankee]

16. I think the guy is out of his mind. This has become stranger and stranger...

He is seriously unbalanced mentally.

[lonestarnot]

17. nutwit.