Todd Courser Resigns As State Representative Cindy Gamrat Expelled

Todd Courser resigned at 3:12 a.m. on Friday as the House prepared for a third vote on a resolution to expel him from office. According to Mlive one hour later the House voted 91-12 to expel Gamrat, R-Plainwell, making her just the fourth lawmaker ever to be removed from the Michigan Legislature by her peers.

Mr.Courser spoke with reporters after turning in his resignation letter. "It's an unfortunate chapter, where we're at, obviously for the state House, for the state, for the Legislature, for my own family," Courser said. "It's time to turn a page and take a step forward and go in a different direction, obviously heal some stuff in my own house, and this House and this body can heal a little bit more as well."