Gidding may lose committee assignment
Rep. Priscilla Giddings responds to questions from ethics committee attorney Christopher McCurdy during a hearing to determine if she violated the Idaho Legislature's ethics rules by publicizing the name of a young intern who accused one of Giddings' fellow lawmakers of rape in Boise, Idaho., on Monday. An Idaho lawmaker accused of violating ethics rules by publicizing the name of an alleged rape victim in disparaging social media posts and then allegedly misleading lawmakers about her actions, said in an ethics hearing Monday that she did nothing wrong and claimed the allegations against her…
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BOISE (AP) — A Idaho legislative ethics committee decided Tuesday that a lawmaker who publicized the name of a Statehouse intern who reported that she was raped by another lawmaker should be stripped of one of her committee assignments for acting in an a manner "unbecoming" to the state's House of Representatives.
The bipartisan committee voted unanimously to censure Republican Rep...
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