Cindy Gamrat
| Cindy Gamrat | |
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| Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 80th district |
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In office January 1, 2015 – September 11, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Genetski |
| Succeeded by | Mary Whiteford |
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| Political party | Republican (expelled from caucus) |
| Spouse(s) | Joe (div 2016) |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Plainwell, Michigan |
| Profession | Nurse |
Cindy Gamrat is a former Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives, representing the 80th district. She was first elected in 2014, after playing a leading role in organizing the Tea Party movement in Michigan. She engaged in an extramarital affair with fellow Representative Todd Courser, and was expelled in September 2015 for using taxpayer resources in an attempt to cover up the affair.
Gamrat became a Tea Party organizer after moving to Michigan in 2010. Shortly after moving, she founded Plainwell Patriots Tea Party and in 2011 founded Michigan 4 Conservative Senate.
In 2011, Gamrat was leader of the Plainwell Patriots Tea Party which hosted a United States Senate candidate forum on November 22 of that year. The event featured Cornerstone Schools executive Clark Durant, former Kent County Judge Randy Hekman, libertarian activist Scotty Boman of Detroit, Gary Glenn of Midland, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, and Roscommon businessman Peter Konetchy.
Michigan 4 Conservative Senate, also founded by Gamrat, was patterned after successful efforts by Indiana tea party groups that rallied behind Richard Mourdock as the tea party challenger to Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar. In Michigan, she organized more than 50 tea party groups, under the name Michigan 4 Conservative Senate (MI4CS), to try to avoid dispersing tea party clout in a field crowded with conservatives. In addition to coordinating forums by tea party groups around the state, MI4CS organized a candidate forum at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant Michigan on January 14, 2012. The forum preceded a convention of Michigan tea party groups that would decide which of the participating candidates they would support. Clark Durant, Randy Hekman, Scotty Boman, Chuck Marino and Gary Glenn participated, while Peter Konetchy, Rick Wilson, and former Congressman Pete Hoekstra chose not to.
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