Thread by @ChadLivengood

AD WATCH: ⁦@ProgressMich⁩ has a new claiming Republican-nominated Supreme Court candidate Brock Swartzle was a “partisan operative at the center of a legislative sex scandal.”

I’m pretty sure Brock wasn’t a party to Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat’s extramarital affair.

This ad claim focuses on a lawsuit filed by Courser & Gamrat's whistleblowing ex-aides who sued the House, saying they told Swartzle they had “undeniable physical proof” Courser anonymously sent out emails smearing himself (ie. the controlled burn tape).
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Brock Swartzle was chief legal counsel when Courser & Gamrat's aides, Keith Allard & Ben Graham, came to him and then-House Chief of Staff Norm Saari about their concerns about working under the two reps while they were having an affair.

Swartzle is now a Court of Appeals judge.

Also, in a mostly unrelated matter, I slipped the phrase “inoculate the herd” into a column last weekend and no one seemed to notice. 👨🏻‍💻

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