Lawmaker questions why pornography site can use state photos, but she cant
An explicit website isn’t the focus of state Rep. Melanie Stambaugh’s ongoing ethics case, but she says it underscores a point she’s been trying to make all along.
That is, if anyone — including the owners of a pornography site — can access and use official legislative photos online, why is she accused of 44 ethics violations for doing the same?
The issue has emerged as a curious sideshow to Stambaugh’s case before the state’s Legislative Ethics Board, which held a rare hearing this month to determine whether the Puyallup Republican broke ethics rules by posting legislative photos and videos on a campaign Facebook page.
Buried amid more than 30 exhibits Stambaugh submitted to the board was a screenshot of another Republican lawmaker’s official photo, plastered next to pornographic advertisements on a mysterious website.
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