Photo: SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images California representative Katie Hill resigned on Sunday, 12 days after a right-wing website published intimate photos of her and a campaign staffer taken without her consent. Though Hill acknowledged that the relationship was unethical, she repeatedly emphasized that the publication of the photos was incredibly violating, against the law, and potentially orchestrated by her ex-husband, who she says abused her.
Hill, a freshman Democrat and rising star in the party, opened her remarks by asking for forgiveness from “every little girl” who looked up to her after her groundbreaking congressional run. She said that she had not been able to leave her apartment since conservative website Redstate ran the story that contained explicit images of Hill and the young female staffer, who has remained anonymous.
But most of her comments did not address the alleged wrongdoing against her subordinate, or express remorse beyond the “people I’ve hurt.” Instead, Hill was defiantly critical of what she saw as a combined effort by her ex-husband Kenny Heslep, who she claims was abusive, and the right wing media.
Hill also spoke out against what she described as a double standard between the salacious, sexualized coverage of the allegations against her as a woman, and that of the many high-ranking men accused of abusing their own power.
You was caught in her own ethics violation and then blames others, that’s fine, but she’s still guilty hence the resignation.
Very disgusting images and woman.I pray for her children .If you are sex adict go to porn shop
Then ther is Fiona Hill!
Wah burger 🍔 and french cries coming up!
How does she explain the Nazi tattoo?
So women should get away with it too? What a shit standard.
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The double standard about the coverage? She must have missed the Kavanaugh hearings.
Umm....the leader of her party in the House is a woman. Who forced her out?
Pfffft.
Anthony Weiner anyone? Al Franken? This is a con woman who used her power to take advantage of an underling. The media's bias in her favor is the only double standard.
False Halloween Martyr.
Good because she’s right.
She quit. No one forced her out.
should have stayed in office and hold up a mirror to the hypocrites