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TexasTowelie

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Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:51 AM Nov 2016

Mailer depicts Illinois lawmaker naked, police investigate

SPRINGFIELD — Authorities are investigating who's responsible for a mailer showing an altered picture of a female Illinois state lawmaker that depicts her in the nude.

The image of Republican state Rep. Avery Bourne was sent to people in central Illinois, The State Journal-Register and WTAX radio in Springfield reported. It has a picture of her face added onto an image of a naked woman.

Bourne's Democratic opponent in her re-election bid, Mike Mathis, denounced the mailer, calling it offensive and saying it "goes beyond a late campaign dirty trick."

"It degrades and insults all women and is an insult to Rep. Bourne, our families and our values," he said.

Read more: http://thesouthern.com/elections/mailer-depicts-illinois-lawmaker-naked-police-investigate/article_a9526353-9324-559a-8cfa-ef8e503ed530.html

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