Michigan State Rep Todd Courser's Brother Dan Courser Says He Got Blackmailer's Text Too

This case of State Representative Todd Courser's scandal

Dan Courser

widens as his brother Dan Courser chimes in and say that he too received texts from the blackmailer.   If true how did this person get Dan Courser's telephone number?

Several people have commented that they think the account of the blackmailer is a fabricated story. This simply is not the case. I also received blackmail texts from this mysterious number urging me first to convince Todd to converse with the blackmailer and later tried to convince me to urge Todd to resign from his position or else he/she would bring out destructive info. about Todd.

Below are snapshots of the texts from my droid x2 and the last one after I changed phones to my iphone 4s.  - Dan Courser

Embattled Michigan Rep Todd Courser Releases Texts From Supposed Blackmailer

Yesterday the bizarre political soap opera surrounding Todd

Todd Courser /  Cindy Gamrat

Courser and his alleged affair with fellow State Representative Cindy Gamrat got even stranger.  Todd Courser stated that he was being blackmailed about his relationship with Gamrat and yesterday he released texts and named names.

Todd Courser, named Flushing Michigan political consultant David Forsmark as one of his blackmailers. 

 David Forsmark, owner of Winning Strategies a political consulting firm and writer for PJ Media and The Atheist Conservative, denies contacting Todd Courser and states doesn't even have his phone number.  Winning Strategies has been in existence since 1991 according to Manta and has helped hundreds of political candidates on both sides of the isle. 

David Forsmark's bio on his business website reads: "For 20 years before that, he wrote book, movie and concert reviews as a stringer for the Flint Journal, a midsize daily newspaper. David was also the popular culture critic for Credo, a weekly newspaper "for Catholic and other Christians" where he became possibly the first Baptist to win 2 Catholic press awards."

His work has also appeared in National Review Online, St. Austin Review and other publications

  

David Forsmark

Even if Courser was being blackmailed he should have come clean and allowed authorities to investigate.  Courser should have known he was not above the law, especially as an attorney.  Couser has stated he has contacted authorities yet the State Police have no record.  The Attorney General's office is remaining quiet on the issue.

Here is the press release Courser posted on his Facebook Wall for the media to pick up  and  the screen shots of the alleged blackmailer:

Representative Todd Courser today has released blackmail text messages he received since May showing that he was subject to threats and cyber-spying.The texts show Courser was told to resign his office or else information about his personal indiscretions would be released. Courser said he has been in contact with authorities over a period of time and is urging that the proper authorities investigate the matter.

He said he will be exonerated on claims that he used state resources and staff improperly. Rather, Courser said the actions that he took regarding his staff was meant to try and pin down exactly who is blackmailer was. "These texts from the blackmailer show a lot. They are very intimate. They were freakishly stalking. It was in this environment that I was acting to find out who was involved in the blackmailing," Courser said.

"They involved access to conversations, texts, locations, and family info including private cell data. It was constant surveillance from January forward." Based on select information he released and who he release that information to, he has concluded that his former staff worked with political consultant David Forsmark to concoct a plot to remove him from office.

Only Josh Cline, Ben Graham and Keith Allard had the access to the information he was confronted with by his blackmailer. Courser said the blackmailer told him he was meeting with the Speakers office on August 3, which goes to his suspicions that the Speaker was somehow involved in a plot to remove him. "I'm Not sure how forth coming the Speakers office is with their appointments, but if they are indeed investigating I am not sure they can investigate themselves and their role in this," he said. "How involved were they? What did they know? When did they know it? "I welcome an investigation into the allegations against me; and into my claim that there is a blackmailing effort that is ongoing and attempting me to resign; if there was any misuse of state resources then there should be consequences; I am confident with full and forthright investigation that I will be fully exonerated and that no state resources were ever used inappropriately. I asked Mr. Graham to assist on his own time and he declined." 

Courser acknowledges the May 20 email he sent was a low point in his life and "inexcusable." It was the product of an immense amount of stress about his personal safety and that of his family combined with a lack of food and sleep. Blackmailer urges Courser to resign or information about his personal indiscretions would be released. "In no way could I ever submit to that sort of pressure and so I simply refused and instead set out to do what I could to expose the person or persons involved," he said.Courser said he did not engage with the blackmailer, who also was contacting Representative Gamrat and other contacts of Courser and Gamrat, including financial supporters.

Conservative And Fellow Tea Party Republican Rep. Gary Glenn To Todd Courser - Resign

Part of the Conservative Freshman group Gary Glenn R-Midland MI 98th district,

joined fellow Representative Tom Leonard yesterday on the call  for Todd Courser to resign.    This is a major development as the same Tea Party movement that elected Glenn also elected Todd Courser R-Lapeer

 "There is no possible reasoning or rationale by which their remaining in office will benefit their families or the conservative cause that so many have worked so long to advance," Glenn said in a statement. "The longer the scandal and ridicule continues, the more damage will be done to both their families and to that cause."

Courser has suggested that his former staffers may have been involved in the blackmail scheme, a charge they have denied. If he had resigned at the time, he "essentially would have been submitting to the establishment of the authority machine," he said Monday, arguing that staying on was "essential for the cause of liberty."

Glenn disputed Courser's rationale for staying in office.

"The behavior to which he's publicly admitted has, by association, damaged and discredited the cause of liberty and of conservative, constitutional, and limited government, and the longer political adversaries are allowed to demonize those principles in the media by association with such tactics, the more damage will be done to conservatives' ability to advance those ideals in Michigan," Glenn said."

BOMBSHELL: Michigan State Freshman Reps Todd Courser & Cindy Gamrat Caught in Extramarital Affair - Try Covering It Up

Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat

First reported by Brandon Hall of  West Michigan Politics a month ago, it can now be confirmed that Freshman Republican State Representatives Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat had an affair and the Detroit News has the recording proving the affair and a cover-up e-mail.   Todd calls his constituents "the herd" and that they need to be "inoculated" from the truth.

Two years ago many conservatives were questioned as to why they jumped ship and voted for Bobby Schostak for State Chair over the Todd Courser for State Chair and Cindy Gamrat for Vice Chair candidacy.  These conservatives, who were Christian Conservatives could tell that Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat were faux conservatives and not practicing what they were preaching.

Todd Courser In this audio, recorded by legislative aide Ben Graham, State Rep. Todd Courser tells him he wants to him to distribute an email alleging he had sex with a male prostitute in a bid to conceal his relationship with Rep. Cindy Gamrat.  Todd works to protect himself as he still thinks he can run for Congress to replace Republican Candace Miller who is retiring and rumored to be running for Governor of Michigan in 2018. 

The following is the faux e-mail Todd Courser wrote to try to through the scent off  the trail of  his and Gamrat's affair.  Todd goes so far as to create a bogus e-mail account and use improper spelling and grammar to distance himself from the e-mail.

Warning Graphic Language and Explicit Content 

From: georgerathburn520@gmail.com
Sent: 5/20/2015 11:36:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Breaking Scandal - Todd Courser
 Breaking Scandal!
State Rep Courser Caught behind a Lansing nightclub!
Christian conservative or Godless Addicted Monster!
Truth!!!! Courser secretly Removed from Caucus several weeks ago due to male on male paid for sex behind a prominent Lansing nightclub! Action soon coming to remove Courser!
 He is a bi-sexual porn addicted sex deviant!  All over Lansing since the election and that is why he was thrown out of caucus!
He is a FREAK! He is a gun toting bible thumping cock sucking freak! His whole personalit is a sham! He is a tool pawn of establishment
In past election he was accused of child molestation! And he done things that should have him in jail!
He doesn’t work in Lansing he is just there feeding his habit of alcohol drugs and illicity sex! Most days he is high stoned on drugs and alcohol while he is supposed to be voting at the state house!
Rep Gamrat Gamrat knew about it all along and has helped cover for his actions! has played along and been complicit in his sorted activities and has covered for him over and over and her involvement is the real reason she was thrown out! She shouldn’t have ever been trusted as state rep or national committeewoman she is a tramp, a lie, and a laugh for this bi-sexual cock sucking monster!
This Teabagger takes his title seriously! Moaning and groaning fucking and screwing man on man man on woman and whoever he can pay! Pictures and video youtube tell the hoel story and of all of his exploits behind night clubs and hotels at some of the best and worst places in Lansing with all the grinding hot and sweaty sex and drug use – it is too much to hide anymore he is a scam!

State Representative and Speaker of the house Kevin Cotter has now opened a formal criminal investigation to determine if staffers, were used or requested to assist Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat in the attempted concealment of their affair and if these staffers were fired for their non-participation. 

A few have asked if this recording of Todd Courser was legal and it appears it is. A Michigan Court of Appeals ruling said that participants in a conversation may record a discussion without getting the permission of other participants. “A recording made by a participant is nothing more than a more accurate record of what was said,” the court decided in a 1982 case.

It is the opinion of Setting the Record Straight as well as many others, that both Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat should resign.  They have been an embarrassment to Christian conservatives, their constituents and Michigan as a whole.  Their sordid affair will cost taxpayers additional funds as special elections will need to be run in their respective districts.  Many looked up to these two but they chose their own self interests above their constituents and even worse, their families.