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.”

  • Flying Squid
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    241 year ago

    When Mary Carey ran for governor of California, she didn’t get many votes, but people treated her like a serious candidate. And she was (is?) a porn star.

    • @I_Fart_Glitter
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      31 year ago

      There were 153 people in that race and she came in 10th.

      • Flying Squid
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        21 year ago

        And yet she was still treated like a real candidate despite her history.

        • @I_Fart_Glitter
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          21 year ago

          That’s what I’m saying, she got more votes than 143 people in that race. And at the time, it wasn’t history, she was a working porn star.