Stormie Janzen, an aide to Senator Jeff Sessions, has shut down her blog on MySpace after a complaint was sent to Sessions' office. NBC13 reports that the blog included a photograph of Jazen's midriff.
The site included a photo that showed Janzen's midriff in open jeans and the waistband of her underwear.
The photo had been removed by Friday afternoon and entry to parts to her site were restricted to "blog owner friends only."
Michael Brumas, a spokesman for Sessions, would not say if Janzen was using an office computer or blogging on government time.
The Senate conduct handbook states office computers should be for official business, but there are exceptions for personal use.
Stormie doesn't appear to have broken any rules and the blog sounds ordinary. Janzen wasn't blogging about work either so the story sounds overblown. Wonkette, which has a post with the midriff photograph, had this to say:
Because Stormie was not blogging about her work for Senator Sessions, the contents of her blog were of no concern to his office. So what if some random Alabama constituent couldn't handle a little thong? That's the constituent's problem, not Stormie's. It's not like the constituent was tied to a chair in Guantanamo, eyes taped open, forced to stare at Stormie's bare midriff...
Other posts on the Stormie pseudo-scandal (as Wonkette is calling it) can be found here, here, here, here and here. The Washington Post also has an article on the Janzen story.
