{"id":1827,"date":"2015-08-07T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2015-08-07T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T18:03:33","slug":"you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-department-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"You-can&#8217;t-make-this-stuff-up department, &#8212; OR &#8212;<br>Back in the ol&#8217; hometown, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intending to blunt rumors of an affair with a similarly conservative and pious Tea Party legislator, Michigan representative Todd Courser had an ingenious idea: He would start the rumor that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2015\/08\/06\/recordings-state-rep-asked-aide-hide-relationship\/31269315\/\" target=\"_blank\">frequents male prostitutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>State Rep. Todd Courser planned the distribution of a fictional email alleging he had sex with a male prostitute in a bid to conceal his relationship with Rep. Cindy Gamrat, according to audio recordings obtained by The Detroit News.<\/p>\n<p>Courser, a Lapeer Republican, said on one recording the email was designed to create \u201ca complete smear campaign\u201d of exaggerated, false claims about him and Gamrat so a public revelation about the legislators\u2019 relationship would seem \u201cmild by comparison.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intending to dispel rumors of an affair with a similarly conservative and pious legislator, Michigan representative Todd Courser had an ingenious idea: He would start the rumor that he frequents gay prostitutes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}