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I Bow Down To This Dude and You Should Too

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Todd Courser (R) is a high-flying, freshman tea party patriot in the Michigan state legislature. On the way to reforming government, he started sleeping with fellow tea partier newcomer Cindy Gamrat (R). And in an innovation that puts all Silicon Valley ‘disruption’ to shame, he decided to concoct a fake gay sex scandal about himself, on the reasoning that when the gay sex scandal fell apart and got discredited that his adulterous freedom affair with Gamrat would seem “mild by comparison.”

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