Common Cents Blog: RE-POST: Dem Candidate Is Livid GOP Discovered Her Chaturbate Channel

She's a Adult Movie Star - and a Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates. Saw this on Hot Air but it was originally on Town Hall.

A rookie Democrat candidate vying for a vital seat in the Virginia House of Delegates bared it all ahead of the election.
Cash-strapped political hopeful Susanna Gibson certainly isn't shy about asking the public for money. Under the username "hotwifeexperience," the 40-year-old mother of two school-aged children moonlighted as a MILF-styled porn star on the X-rated webcam site Chaturbate, where she has performed sexual acts with her husband in exchange for "tips" from voyeuristic viewers.
Amassing more than 5,770 Chaturbate followers, the smut-peddling marital pair reportedly has hosted over a dozen livestreams on the pornographic platform, according to the publicly accessible Recurbate, an archive of Chaturbate's broadcasts. On camera, identifying as "ethically non-monogamous," the swinging Gibson campaigning in a swing district suggested that the married couple is in an open relationship and has "tried swapping" with other sex partners before, but her spouse, lawyer John David Gibson, "doesn't like sharing." Although, her hubby admitted, "Sometimes I have to though. She makes me." Gibson has even gleefully gloated about "f**king" three men in one day, urging viewers: "Don't tell my husband he was the third."
Susanna and John Gibson | Facebook
"Yeah, I f**k random strangers if you're hot," Gibson allegedly bragged. "I just want a private room with somebody filming their c**k so I can c*m looking at it, Jesus Christ," the Chaturbate star said. "Oh God, I want to f**king get railroaded by all of you."
"I'm married and I think the person I'm married to is amazing. But, I love sex. I always have; I always will. I don't think that when you are in love with someone it means that you don't want to f**k other people. Like love and sex are not mutually exclusive, right?" Gibson said of her marriage. "I like being choked. I like being hit. I do," Gibson emphasized in a Chaturbate session.
Gibson solicited "tokens," Chaturbate's digital currency, from salivating spectators willing to open their wallets for "private" showings held in a separate chatroom. There, she'd act out specific requests for money in apparent violation of Chaturbate's tipping policy. The token-hungry performer told her fans that the virtual audience's gratuities were going toward "a good cause."
A rookie Democrat candidate vying for a vital seat in the Virginia House of Delegates bared it all ahead of the election.
Cash-strapped political hopeful Susanna Gibson certainly isn't shy about asking the public for money. Under the username "hotwifeexperience," the 40-year-old mother of two school-aged children moonlighted as a MILF-styled porn star on the X-rated webcam site Chaturbate, where she has performed sexual acts with her husband in exchange for "tips" from voyeuristic viewers.
Amassing more than 5,770 Chaturbate followers, the smut-peddling marital pair reportedly has hosted over a dozen livestreams on the pornographic platform, according to the publicly accessible Recurbate, an archive of Chaturbate's broadcasts. On camera, identifying as "ethically non-monogamous," the swinging Gibson campaigning in a swing district suggested that the married couple is in an open relationship and has "tried swapping" with other sex partners before, but her spouse, lawyer John David Gibson, "doesn't like sharing." Although, her hubby admitted, "Sometimes I have to though. She makes me." Gibson has even gleefully gloated about "f**king" three men in one day, urging viewers: "Don't tell my husband he was the third."
"Yeah, I f**k random strangers if you're hot," Gibson allegedly bragged. "I just want a private room with somebody filming their c**k so I can c*m looking at it, Jesus Christ," the Chaturbate star said. "Oh God, I want to f**king get railroaded by all of you."
"I'm married and I think the person I'm married to is amazing. But, I love sex. I always have; I always will. I don't think that when you are in love with someone it means that you don't want to f**k other people. Like love and sex are not mutually exclusive, right?" Gibson said of her marriage. "I like being choked. I like being hit. I do," Gibson emphasized in a Chaturbate session.
Gibson solicited "tokens," Chaturbate's digital currency, from salivating spectators willing to open their wallets for "private" showings held in a separate chatroom. There, she'd act out specific requests for money in apparent violation of Chaturbate's tipping policy. The token-hungry performer told her fans that the virtual audience's gratuities were going toward "a good cause."
According to a cam model's self-reporting blog post on the token-to-USD payment process, Chaturbate pays sex performers $5 for every 100 tokens earned, so 500 tokens are equivalent to $25; 1,000 tokens equal $50; 10,000 tokens convert to $500; and so on. Of course, Chaturbate takes a steep 40 - 50% cut, too, pre-payout, which the conversion system takes into account.
Gibson launched her campaign in July 2022. After announcing her candidacy, the cam girl-turned-Democrat contender uploaded at least one picture of herself on Chaturbate a month later. Then, the trove of Gibson's erotic exploits was uploaded to Recurbate in September 2022. The videos are no longer visible. But, the clips remain active on other pages that aren't password-protected.
In a scathing statement to The Washington Post, which first exposed Gibson's online licentiousness after an unnamed Republican operative alerted the newspaper, the Virginia Democrat claimed to be a victim of "revenge porn" at the hands of GOP opposition.
"It won't intimidate me and it won't silence me," Gibson responded, calling the circulation and exposure of the publicly posted material "a sex crime," "the worst gutter politics," and "an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family."
"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," Gibson continued. The unidentified Republican operative who tipped off The Post denied any connection to Gibson's competitor or other organizations involved in the 2023 Virginia elections. The source provided the information on the condition of anonymity to avoid being drawn into the controversy.
Gibson's attorney Daniel P. Watkins, a prominent libel-and-slander lawyer specializing in high-stakes defamation cases and "reputation counseling," told the outlet that his client was not aware of—nor had she authorized—the posting of her Chaturbate content on other third-party porn sites, asserting that the publicly available archived videos somehow violates Virginia's revenge-porn law § 18.2-386.2, which makes it illegal to "maliciously" disseminate photographic and/or videographic sexual depictions of another person in "a state of nudity" with the "intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate." The crime is a Class 1 misdemeanor in the Old Dominion state, an offense that's punishable by up to a year in jail plus a $2,500 fine. "A criminal act has occurred here, and that's the dissemination of revenge porn by a Republican operative," Watkins told the Associated Press.
Asked why Gibson possessed "a reasonable expectation of privacy" on Chaturbate, the candidate's legal counsel cited a 2021 Virginia Appeals Court opinion that affirmed a man's criminal conviction, determining that it was, indeed, unlawful for the appellant to secretly record his then-girlfriend during a consensual sexual encounter even if he never shared the video with third parties.
In the case Ronnie Lee Johnson v. Commonwealth of Virginia, the court rejected Johnson's argument contending that the victim being "knowingly nude" and participating in sexual activity while in view of the appellant meant the statute's privacy protection didn't apply. Thus, the ruling found that consent to being seen at the time of the recording is not the same as consent to being recorded, deciding there is "a stark distinction between an image existing only in someone's memory, as opposed to it being a permanent file that may be shared or re-viewed indefinitely beyond the moment when one's consent to the activity was provided."
The matter of dispute pertained to a private interaction. As for Gibson's salacious Internet escapades, she filmed herself on a forum that users have unrestricted access to, albeit she allegedly didn't consent to the content's redistribution elsewhere.
"We are working closely with state and federal law enforcement," Watkins said. According to the law firm of Meier Watkins Phillips & Pusch, where Watkins is partner and co-founder, he has "killed stories" as well as obtained retractions, corrections, clarifications, and public apologies from major media giants, including the Washington Post, in the past. Notably, the firm represented Dominion Voting Systems in its lawsuit against Fox News, resulting in a record-breaking $787.5 million settlement.
Watkins told The New York Times that they're working with the FBI as well "to bring the wrongdoers to justice."
Control of the House is on the line as Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin struggles to enact pro-life legislation in a divided Capitol.
Gibson is hoping for a happy ending this fall as she's running to represent Richmond-area District 57 in a hotly contested Nov. 7 race against Republican rival David Owen - https://twitter.com/votedavidowen. Democrats are seeking to regain party majority in the 100-member Virginia House. Republicans, currently controlling the state legislature's lower chamber by three delegates, are clinging to a thin 49 to 46 lead.