A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia had sex with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website and asked viewers to pay them money in return for carrying out specific sex acts.

Screenshots of Susanna Gibson on the website were shared with The Associated Press. The campaign for Gibson, a Democrat running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in a district just outside Richmond, issued a statement Monday in which it denounced the sharing of the videos as a violation of the law and her privacy. Gibson called the exposure of the videos “the worst gutter politics.”

“It won’t intimidate me and it won’t silence me,” she said in the statement. “My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up.”

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    1 year ago

    Curious your opinions on Boebert, who was also a sex worker before she got into politics.

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      1 year ago

      She’s the worst person in Congress already, and yes this makes her even lower. Stop treating this as a zero-sum game.

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        1 year ago

        When we have ranked choice voting and a third party I will.

        In the meantime, it is a zero sum game. You can’t play dove when the other side is playing hawk. That’s basic game theory. Tit for tat.

        If the right (or you) want to shame her for legal sex work, I’m going to bring up that tweeker escort every time I can.