Susanna Gibson, a Democratic candidate for Virginia’s House of Delegates, offers these credentials to sit in the oldest democratically elected legislature in the Western Hemisphere: “Mom. Nurse Practitioner. Public Health Expert.”
But the far-left, pro-abortion contestant for District 57, which comprises parts of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, left one credential off the list. She’s also an internet porn star.
Gibson, The Washington Post revealed yesterday, performed sex acts with her husband on a website called Chaturbate. She even asked for tips to do specific things. Amusingly, Gibson is furious her X-rated activities were revealed, and even suggests she was the victim of a sex crime.
Given the Democratic Party’s tolerance of perverts and weirdos in public office, one mightn’t expect leaders to force her out of the race and run a less-offensive candidate. But should that happen, and if she loses her job as a nurse, she can always segue onto Chaturbate full time.
Story Revealed
The Post pulled the sheets back on Gibson thanks to a tip from a GOP operative who is not connected to the campaign of her opponent, David Owen.
Noting that videos on the site are streamed live, then archived elsewhere, the Post reported that “More than a dozen videos of the couple captured from the Chaturbate stream were archived on one of those sites — Recurbate — in September 2022, after she entered the race. The most recent were two videos archived on Sept. 30, 2022. It is unclear when the live stream occurred.”
Although Gibson is a leftist, the Post reporter did her job:
While still listed on Recurbate, those videos were no longer available for viewing as of Saturday, after a Republican operative alerted The Washington Post about them. But the videos remained live on another non-password-protected site, which The Post viewed. At least two other publicly available sites displayed explicit still photos from the videos, The Post confirmed.
Gibson, 40, can be seen in the videos soliciting “tips” for performing specific acts — in apparent violation of Chaturbate’s terms and conditions, which say: “Requesting or demanding specific acts for tips may result in a ban from the Platform for all parties involved.”
In at least two videos, she tells viewers she is “raising money for a good cause.”
That good cause remains a mystery, although it might involve Gibson’s bank account. But anyway, better yet, her husband, a lawyer, participated in the videos.
Gibson agreed to perform sex acts in a “private room,” which jacks up the price for watching, the Post reported. “Gibson takes the lead in addressing viewers on videos viewed by The Post, but in one case her husband, an attorney, chimes in with, ‘C’mon, guys,’ to echo her entreaties for tips,” the newspaper reported.
Gibson Upset
Strangely, Gibson is furious about what she terms “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family,” despite the material being available to anyone with an internet connection.
Then came this absurd claim in the statement she provided to the Post:
It won’t intimidate me and it won’t silence me. 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.
More absurdly, her attorney claimed that revealing the videos violated Virginia’s revenge porn law. “We are working closely with state and federal law enforcement,” Daniel P Watkins said.
Even more absurdly, Gibson and her attorney pretended not to understand how websites work:
The Post typically does not identify victims of alleged sex crimes to protect their privacy. In this case, Gibson originally live-streamed these sexual acts on a site that was not password-protected. The couple had more than 5,700 followers there. Many of the videos remained available to the public on other unrestricted sites as of Saturday. Watkins said Gibson was not aware of, and had not authorized, the posting of Chaturbate material on other sites.
Asked why Gibson had a reasonable expectation of privacy on Chaturbate, Watkins pointed to a 2021 Virginia Court of Appeals ruling that found it was unlawful for a man to secretly record his girlfriend during a consensual sexual encounter even if he did not show the video to others.
In that case, Ronnie Lee Johnson v. Commonwealth of Virginia, the court found that consent to being seen is not the same as consent to being recorded, writing that there was a “stark distinction between an image existing only in someone’s memory … [and] a permanent file that may be shared or re-viewed indefinitely.”
So Gibson voluntarily appeared in front of a video camera, performed sex acts online for a website — which means she recorded herself — and now pretends she’s the victim of a sex crime.
The New York Times seemed to share Gibson’s concerns, and headlined its story this way: “State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes.”
Except for the fact that the “tapes” weren’t leaked, the headline is accurate. But again, attorney Watkins, peddled the same line:
Daniel P. Watkins, a lawyer for Ms. Gibson, said it was unlawful in the state to record someone in a state of undress and distribute it to a third party without that person’s consent.
“It’s illegal and it’s disgusting to disseminate this kind of material, and we’re working closely with the F.B.I. and local prosecutors to bring the wrongdoers to justice,” Mr. Watkins said.
Watkins seems to the miss the obvious: Gibson “disseminated this kind of material” when she performed sex acts online, again, for anyone with an internet connection to see.
Roe Inspired Her Run
Gibson is a candidate, her X feed says, because the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision, which conferred the “right” of a woman to murder her unborn child.
“It was never my plan to run for office,” she X posted:
But after Roe was overturned, I knew I needed to step up.
As a Nurse Practitioner, I know better than anyone that a politician has no place in our exam room.
