Special House Committee Chair Responds to Investigation Criticism

The chair of a special House committee is responding to criticism centered on who should head up an investigation into misuse of taxpayer resources by two state lawmakers.

Democrats think Attorney General Bill Schuette should run point but State Representative Ed McBroom says it’s only right for the House to take care of its own matters first.

McBroom says his committee’s hearings to gauge whether or not State Representatives Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat should stay in office will take a week or two, so Schuette won’t have to wait long to conduct a criminal investigation — if he wants to.

Schuette has not said what he plans to do.

Courser and Gamrat are accused of using staffers to conceal their affair and having them do political work on state time. Both are refusing to resign.