Pay-per-view porn? Not for MN state employeesAssociated Press: “A bill slated for a House committee Wednesday would prevent state workers from booking at in-state hotels or meeting facilities that provide their customers with pornographic materials on demand because many link sex with violence. The companion legislation has been moving through the Senate.” HF 3287 (3.11.2010) Politics in Minnesota: “A bill that would prohibit state employees and elected officials from spending public dollars at hotels that offer customers access to violent pornographic movies passed unanimously out of a Senate committee this afternoon. The measure, introduced by Sen. Tarryl Clark, DFL-St. Cloud, cleared the Senate’s State and Local Government Operation and Oversight Committee and will proceed directly to the floor.” SF 2861: State government employees, legislators and constitutional officers public money expenditure prohibition to facilities making pornographic performances or images Politics in Minnesota: “The legislation, SF 2861, would forbid all state employees, constitutional officers and legislators from using state money to pay for lodging, training or ‘any other use’ of a facility that ‘makes pornographic images or performances available to its patrons.’ A ‘pornographic image or performance’ is further defined as one that objectifies or exploits its subjects by ‘eroticizing domination, degradation or violence.’”
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