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Idaho State Rep. Heather Scott posted this on Facebook. Now her husband says he'll sue a reporter. (Original Post) 634-5789 Mar 2023 OP
Sue the reporter, for what? Archae Mar 2023 #1
for proving she Conjuay Mar 2023 #3
Copyright - with huge irony muriel_volestrangler Mar 2023 #9
Just showing who this woman is. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2023 #2
Unlikely that the reporter pushed her out of the stupid tree SheltieLover Mar 2023 #4
Guys, listen close because I'll only say this as many times as I need to jmowreader Mar 2023 #5
+1 2naSalit Mar 2023 #7
2015? Fullduplexxx Mar 2023 #6
For what?................ Lovie777 Mar 2023 #8

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
9. Copyright - with huge irony
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 06:40 PM
Mar 2023
It was March 27, 2022 — just after the end of the Idaho legislative session — when Blanchard, Idaho resident Andrew Scott gained federal copyright protection for the photo of his wife.
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The Spokesman-Review wrote several stories on the ensuing controversy, using the photo each time. It's appeared in the Sandpoint Reader, on KUOW, in the Inlander, and on public radio websites. To this day, she has the photo posted, uncredited, on her campaign website where she writes, "I posed with a Confederate flag on a parade float to show that our First Amendment right is one of the most important rights we have."

In documents submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office in 2021, Andrew Scott titled the picture "In Defense of the First Amendment."

Then, this February, the day after Heather Scott attended a Kootenai County Lincoln Day Dinner with U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, her husband sent a letter to the Inlander and at least one other journalist with a legal threat over our use of the photo, saying we'd be liable for up to $150,000 in damages.

https://www.inlander.com/spokane/idaho-state-rep-heather-scott-held-a-confederate-flag-for-a-photo-and-shared-it-online-her-husband-just-didnt-want-us-to-do-the-same/Content?oid=25620482

It's that "in defense of the 1st Amendment" crap that makes a load of hypocritical BS.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,485 posts)
2. Just showing who this woman is.
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 07:01 AM
Mar 2023

This will be thrown out of Court.

IDIOT for posting it on Facebook in the first place.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
5. Guys, listen close because I'll only say this as many times as I need to
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 07:31 AM
Mar 2023

Heather Scott may not be the absolute worst person in the State of Idaho, but she’s in the top five.

Among her greatest hits: she was a huge supporter of Ammon Bundy’s Malheur takeover.

She is one of the founders of Matt Shea’s Coalition of American States. Google Matt Shea. That fucking guy was so bad even the generally right-wing Spokane Valley, which he represented, decided they’d had enough of his shit.

She tore out the fire suppression system in her Congressional office because she decided it was spying on her.

The only way she got elected is by representing a part of Idaho with about twenty people, most of whom meet two qualifications: their paternal and maternal grandmothers are the same woman, and they’re 35 miles to the right of Mussolini.

The day she detonates due to buildup of excessive hate, every Democrat in Idaho needs to stand guard over the state’s flagpoles to stop anyone lowering them to half-staff.

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