none other than todd courser. >> courser had a crazy scheme in mind. a lot of people were wondering, are these texts were real or are these texts part of courser playing the victim again? >> reporter: you wrote that e-mail. why wouldn't you send those texts? >> obviously my credibility was determined to clear his name and catch the real culprits, he walks into the state police headquarters in lansing, demanding the cops launch a criminal investigation. >> i was hoping they would take it seriously and look through it. they didn't. 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 husband, joe. >> i was devastat

courser caught on tape. >> yep. that recording. unbelievable.see how this was going to be a powerful story. >> reporter: on august 7th, nates on the front page, setting off a media frenzy. >> the >> sex and coverup scandal. >> reporter: for reporter jim kiertzner of abc detroit affiliate wxyz the story is ser's supporters go into bunker mode. >> you're a reporter out for his blood! >> no one in michigan has seen anything like this in the last three decades. the adultery with lies. >> juicy element after juicy element after juicy element.ys on the outside of his little law office. some accountability questions, sir? why are you high ding. >> reporter: for weeks, you're dodging reporters. >> a few weeks. >> reporter: through it all, mrs. courser stands by her man. >> what was going through your mind when he first told you what was going on? >> i was pretty ca now it was subsequent days after that i didn't handle it so well. you can't really point a finger at somebody when they do something and when they fall, because

todd courser is married to his college sweetheart fon. they have four kids together, pick apples in their spare time. >> that's a good one, buddy. >> reporter: and cindy gamrat is raising three kids of her own with her long-time husband joe. the kind of house mom you see smiling out of facebook photos, and price hunting in the produce aisle. >> don't forget the oreos. >> reporter: but the rumors mill keeps churning. and now somebody in this quiet capitol is doing more than talking. it looks like they're stalking. take a look at this. an uncredited photo of courser giving gamrat a foot rub in broad daylight while parked at a lansing strip mall. the photo is posted online after a nameless paparazzo delivers it to controversial political blogger brandon hall. >> it was just like, wow, i mean, "what is my representative doing right now in lansing?" their office, they're voting. here they are in a parking lot, giving each other foot rubs. >> reporter: people were following you guys. >> yeah. >> reporter: and taking these pictures of you. >> i

>> reporter: while representative ed mcbroom and others lobby for expulsion, courser is not about to go gentle into that good night. >> i had no intentions of resigning. i was, i'm a gladiator, i'm a warrior. i would ask that you note no on expelling me. >> reporter: but as the clock strikes 12:00 it becomes clear. the gladiator is being fed to the lions. >> unfit to serve. >> very dramatic. we could see that he was on the house floor lobbying colleagues, pleading to stay. >> they were not letting us leave until they got an expulsion out of me. >> today is the day to end this. the circus needs to go. >> and you know, i just felt like it was done and i walked up and just said hey, you know, i, you know, i'm going to resign. >> reporter: escorted by red-coated security guards, courser makes his exit. were you devastated? >> no, you know, those lead

. >> reporter: while representative ed mcbroom and others lobby for expulsion, courser is not about to go gentle into that good night. >> i had no intentions of resigning. i was, i'm a gladiator, i'm a warrior. i would ask that you note no on expelling me. >> reporter: but as the clock strikes 12:00 it becomes clear. the gladiator is being fed to the lions. >> unfit to serve. >> very dramatic. we could see that he was on the >> they were not letting us expulsion out of me. >> today is the day to end this.

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. >> reporter: courser stays loose, toying with his dog, coco. >>o you want the pizza or do you want the ball? >> reporter: but as the results >> todd courser and cindy gamrat will not be going back to

: but as the results trickle in -- >> todd courser and cindy gamrat will not be going back to lansing. >> reporter: it's clear that the electorate's love affair with the two tea partiers is kaput. cindy gets just 9% of the vote. >> what was going through your mind as you were getting the results?

remember those photos of courser giving cindy a foot rub in a lansing parking lot?

. >> reporter: courser and gamrat say they are still the most

. >> reporter: courser and gamrat say they are still the most conservative candidates running. to make their own decision.

. >> 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.

. >> 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

. >> reporter: the texter had warned courser that his "phone was a burner," a disposable

phone call he said cindy's husband joe actually saw cindy leaving one of these hotel rooms, todd courser's hotel >> he went back to his car, called her and she picked up and said, why are you calling me, i've been sleeping for hours. and he said, really? yeah, i've been asleep, like why are you waking me up? >> reporter: this was just the tip of the iceberg.

phone call he said cindy's husband joe actually saw cindy leaving one of these hotel rooms, todd courser's hotel room, early in the morning. >> he went back to his car,