Cawthorne Remembers Lawmaker Expulsion in ’78

If two state lawmakers who are being pressured to resign face expulsion efforts in the Michigan House, it will not be an easy time for anyone.

That’s according to Dennis Cawthorne, former Republican leader in the Michigan House, who was a leader in the successful effort to throw former State Representative Monte Geralds out of office in 1978 after he had been convicted of embezzlement.

Geralds is the only House member to ever be expelled from the chamber.

Cawthorne says if allegations of an attempted misuse of resources to cover-up of an affair between State Representatives Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat are true, the House has a duty to expel the legislators.

Cawthorne calls Geralds expulsion traumatic and wrenching, as Geralds objected to his expulsion to the very end.