Senator's Aide Shuts Down Blog After Complaint

Posted on February 8, 2006

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 that showed Jazen's midriff. The photograph has been removed and Janzen's MySpace site is now private, meaning only her friends can see it.

Stormie doesn't appear to have broken any rules and the blog sounds rather 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...

Wonkette is calling this the Stormie pseudo-scandal. It doesn't seem very scandalous. The Washington Post also has an article on the Janzen story that says the blog is not as spciy as the Washingtonienne diary.