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LANSING, Mich. -- A Michigan House leader on Friday requested an investigation into allegations that state Rep. Todd Courser orchestrated the distribution of a fictional email claiming he had sex with a male prostitute in a bid to conceal an extramarital relationship with a fellow Michigan lawmaker.
In audio recordings obtained by the newspaper, Courser, R-Lapeer, said the email was designed to create "a complete smear campaign" about him and Rep. Cindy Gamrat, R-Plainwell, so a revelation about their relationship would seem "mild by comparison."
"I need a controlled burn," Courser, a father of four children, said repeatedly throughout the conversation, according to CBS Detroit. "I need it to be over the top."
The socially conservative legislators both are married and have children.
Ben Graham, who served as a House aide, recorded Courser in mid-May directing him to send Republican activists and operatives an email that would appear to be from an anonymous political enemy that said Courser had been "caught behind a Lansing nightclub" having sex with a man.
After Graham rejected the request, Graham said he had duties removed and was fired by Courser by early July. The sexually explicit email was received by Republicans on May 20 and 21, the two days following Courser's meeting with Graham. During the meeting, Courser read aloud portions of a draft email.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-todd-courser-fabricated-male-prostitute-story-to-hide-affair-report/
He would have succeeded if it werent for those meddling kids!