it showed their contempt for the voters. >> it's not about me, it's about the people. >> reporter: courser and gamrat say they are still the most conservative candidates running. >> now, the votots will be able to make their own decision. >> reporter: and now they just want to make laws, not love. november 3rd, election d d, judgment day, and "20/20" is

i told you so, i wasn't the texter. >> right, yeah, obviously. i was telling the truth. >> reporter: the records also show that gamrat exchanged dozens of texts and calls with graham and allard. the aides say that was nothing unusual. joe gamrat would call at all times inquiring about cindy's whereabouts. what was unusual was what gamrat did with that information. for instance, last february, joe gamrmr followed his wife t t the now infamous radisson hotel in downtown lansing and called allard to tell him what he discovered. and in that phone call he said cindy's husband joe actually s s

it. they didt. the officer there said"we know you did it. you just need to confess and you shouldn't make false police reports." >> reporter: eventually the police do launch an investigation and are able to track gps locations from the burner phone to the town of port huron, michigan. specifically to here, the domtar paper plant. >> reporter: investigators make a shocking discovery. there's a traveling chemical salesman working at that plant. a person very close to gamrat's family. believe it or not, her own

i remember reading the report and, and just shaking and not wanting to believe what i was reading. >> reporter: according to the plant bought the phone "with money provided by joe gamrat" and gamrat "would tell him what to text." apparently, they were also assigning the misleading names to the account to throw them off the scent. gamrat has denied the allegations and although he was named as a suspect the prosecutor declined to press charges. >> reporter: did you feel vindicated?

office dash their ambitions. will run for re-electctn after giving up his seat just a week ago. >> reporter: yep, brazen as it may seem, todd and cindy have ended their affair, but now they want to continue their political careers. >> they're almost in denial. they didn't look at themselves the way everybody else in michigan did. >> reporter: why arereou running agaiai >> one of the e ings that concerned me the most was that my voters didn't have a voice in the matter at all. >> reporter: plenty of other candidates are vying for the seats too, but gamrat and courser have something the competition lacks. >> i have the highest name id, i think, of anybody that's ever run for state house.