Guest Blogged by Pokey Anderson
Just down the road from Mount St. Helens, there's an unexpected eruption. The small southwest Washington town of La Center is having a political eruption --- its state legislator is embroiled in a sex scandal, details of which are still unfolding.
This time, there's no resorting to the time-honored "wide stance" defense, and no encrypted toe tapping in an airport public restroom. This time, there is no explicit text messaging to a Congressional page from a member of Congress, then co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, while a bill is being debated on the floor of the Capitol.
This time, the stage is a booth in back of an X-rated video store, and then a room in the nicest hotel in Spokane, Washington.
This time, there's a lawmaker wearing black sequined lingerie...