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On Thursday morning, Sunshine State News captured exclusive video of Sen.
Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, looking at pornographic material on his
state-issued computer on the Senate floor.
Ironically, as Bennett is viewing the material, you can hear a Senator Dan
Gelber's voice in the background debating a controversial abortion bill.
"I'm against this bill," said Gelber, "because it disrespects too many women
in the state of Florida."
Bennett defended his actions, telling Sunshine State News it was an email
sent to him by a woman "who happens to be a former court administrator."
"I was just sitting there, bored as they were debating the abortion bill,"
Bennett said.
"I opened it up and said holy [expletive]! What's on my screen? and clicked
away from it right away."
Sunshine State News could not verify how long the image of four bikini-clad
women with their tops exposed was open before our cameras started rolling on
it, but it was up for at least three seconds before it disappeared from the
screen.
Senate spokesperson Jaryn Emhof explained further on Bennett's behalf.
"There was some confusion about an email he received," said Emhof. "He
thought it was an email about an item being debated on the Senate floor. As
soon as he realized it wasn't he closed the page."
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