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The Central Oklahoma Clean Cities coalition has awarded Amy Walton of Shawnee with the 2021 Legislative Advocate of the Year award for her contribution to critical transportation legislation.
As NewsBusters has previously reported, ABC World News Tonight was the only network newscast to report on the latest developments in the scandal surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill’s relationship with one of her staffers; which has led to a probe from the Congressional Ethics Committee. Like CBS and NBC, MSNBC completely ignored the news about Hill. While the other left-wing cable network, CNN, aired a report on the Hill scandal, anchor Brooke Baldwin and reporter Kyung Lah had a very hard time hiding their admiration for the freshman Congresswoman.
Her husband, who she is currently in the midst of divorcing, is out there trying to humiliate her by releasing intimate photographs, some of which have been published. speaker nancy pelosi, in reacting to hill's announcement, praised her work but added this. she has acknowledged errors in judgment that made her continued service as a member untenable. we have much more of the back story and what this means for her seat. listen. >> reporter: this was katie hill last january. >> from congresswoman elect to dropping the elect. how does it feel? >> it feels good. it's time to get to work, for sure...
Hopefully not but it just doesn't help. >> now under california law the governor does have two weeks to set a date for a special election. as far as representative hill she says that she'll continue to work with investigators with police to try and bring to justice of these people who have the pictures. i have a spoken to a number of gop operatives. one say there are some 700 imagesover texts and photos. another saying he's seen personally dozens of these intimate photos that are just floating out there. john. >> legal questions about how they came to floating out there, that's for sure. thank...
>> disappointment, big disappointment. >> reporter: it's been a long week for linda and martha, volunteers for katie hill's 2018 congressional campaign. >> i'm disappointed because it puts our seat at risk which is i think to me the most important thing. >> reporter: they're talking about the crisis unfolding around representative hill. the house committee announced an investigation into claims that hill had an improper relationship with a member of her congressional staff, a violation of house rules. hill calls the charge absolutely false and said she would cooperate with the inquiry. but ple...