Statehouse Happenings: AI Porn Allegations Rock Statehouse
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Allegations that employees in the Lt. Governor's Office were sharing artificial intelligence pornography of a state lawmaker's wife has turned the statehouse upside down. Veteran journalist Tom Lobianco has reported State Representative Craig Haggard's wife was the victim. Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith has denied the allegations and claimed he investigated and cleared the individuals. With law enforcement apparently now involved, Rob Kendall, Jim Merritt and Abdul-Hakim Shabazz explore one of the most bizarre stories to ever hit Indiana politics and government.
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| 2:02.4 | for supporting State House happenings. Rob Kendall, Jim Merritt, Abdul Akim Shabazz, the program, as State House Happenings, your weekly look at what's going on with Indiana politics and government. Before we begin the show, let's meet the award-winning panel. You know him from 30 years in the Indiana Senate. The great Jim Merritt. Hello. Robert. And you know him as the owner and operator of IndyPolitics.org. Abdul Akibhabaz. Hello. If I may quote Charlton Heston from the classic film Planet of the Apes, it's a madhouse. It's a madhouse. Remember when we were like, well, session's over. It's going to be really hard to find things to talk about all summer long the summer's been better than the session it's uh abdul you were hoping for calm |
| 2:08.1 | he's never hoping for calm he would go out of business if they were calm my blood pressure |
| 2:13.9 | is always hoping for calm yes so i noticed had to increase my dosage with my medication a couple days ago. |
| 2:19.2 | It's like, wow, blood pressure starting to get back up again. |
| 2:20.7 | I wonder what the heck's going on in the backyard. |
| 2:23.7 | Okay, this is probably, I mean, you guys will be better, have better, kind of better perspective on this than I will because you've been around it longer. |
| 2:33.1 | But this is, I think, |
| 2:34.8 | the weirdest story I've ever heard in all of Indiana politics and government. You guys know |
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