Say It Ain’t So, Katie

Rep. Hill’s Sudden Resignation Raises Complex Political, Cultural Issues

Thu Oct 31, 2019 | 06:00am

Rep. Katie Hill, the millennial, bisexual, cable news celebrity politician from California’s 25th Congressional District, abruptly resigned Sunday, amid a social media sex scandal for the revenge porn, #MeToo era.

“It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress,” Democrat Hill wrote in a statement.

Even as wannabe successors immediately began lining up for a 2020 special election campaign to replace her, many supporters of the 32-year-old Democrat struggled to fathom the swift-moving events that wrecked her promising career within a few days, less than a year after she was elected.

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