Democrats are split largely along generational lines in their judgement or support of Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), who will give her final floor address after the vote on the impeachment resolution Thursday.
According to Politico, younger representatives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-CA) train their condemnation on those who leaked and disseminated intimate and explicit pictures of the congresswoman.
“This doesn’t happen to male members in the same way — revenge porn in this respect. It’s horrific,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don’t think we’re really talking about how targeted and serious this is. We’re talking about a major crime… being committed against her.”
Older members, while uniformly sad to see Hill go, focus on her personal indiscretion.
“Our darling Katie. It’s so sad,” Pelosi during a closed-door leadership meeting Monday. “It goes to show you, we should say to young candidates, and to kids in kindergarten really, be careful when transmitting photos.”
Hill has been accused of having inappropriate relationships with a campaign and congressional staffer, the second of which she denies. She accuses her husband, with whom she’s entangled in an acrimonious divorce, of jump-starting the smear campaign which splashed her nude pictures across the pages of conservative blog Red State and tabloid the Daily Mail.
Hill will give her final speech Thursday before her official resignation Friday.
Revenge Porn is illegal in CA.
“I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment. For that I apologize…”
“I know that as long as I am in Congress, we’ll live fearful of what might come next and how much it will hurt,” she wrote on her statement posted to Twitter.
My two cents…It seems that it’s her decision to resign and not pressured by Dem leadership. A probe if it was a revenge porn or a hacking as her husband claims, should be done to determine the truth!
Meanwhile, guess who is running in Katie Hill’s Congressional seat?
The Convicted Felon Papadopoulus!
Oh FFS, Nancy. Her sexual agency doesn’t belong to you. You let this happen by allowing the puritans to set the narrative based on a shit double standard. You victim-blaming hot take is garbage.
I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be resigning if she were a man. When her marriage was on the rocks she had an affair with a campaign staffer. Not great, but how many men have done the same — while pretending to be loyal and loving husbands. And she was the victim of revenge porn, not the perpetrator. These were private photos which she did not distribute but to which her husband had access. It’s not like she sent out dick pics to strangers and tinder dates.
This is the new reality and women are going to continue to be targets in a way men are not. It’s tough, and each situation is different for the individual, but women are going to have to continue to stand up and refuse to retreat.
The older generation (my generation) is just going to have to adjust to the reality of the internet generations and the baggage that comes with it, just like they had to adjust to the reality of generations that smoked weed and hooked up.
I wish Congresswoman Hill the very best and hope her asshole soon-to-be ex gets what’s coming to him.
Wondering why Papadopoulous tweeted the day before the scandal broke…makes me think this is another Roger Stone dirty trick…
What was she doing having sex anyway? And what did she do to make him so mad at her that he was forced into doing something illegal? That poor young man! I think he’s the real victim here.