Byline: Michelle Breidenbach Staff writer
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CORRECTION: May 26, 2004
An article Monday about former Syracuse resident Jessica Cutler, who was fired from her U.S. Senate staff assistant job for using government computers to record entries in her Internet diary in which she described sexual trysts with Washington officials, incorrectly reported that she graduated from Syracuse University. Cutler last took classes at SU in spring 2000 and holds senior status there.
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A former Syracuse University student journalist's Internet diary of sexual trysts with Washington officials has cost her a Senate job and has political insiders guessing who was who on her Web blog, called the Washingtonienne.
U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, fired staff assistant Jessica Cutler on Friday for unacceptable use of Senate computers, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
Cutler, 24, told The Washington Post the accounts she posted are true and she's not ashamed of them.
"It's so cliched. It's like "There's a slutty girl on the Hill?' There's millions of'em," she told The Washington Post. "A lot of my friends are way worse than me."
Cutler's diary identifies her partners only by their initials. She wrote that one agency chief of staff paid her $400 for sex. She told The Washington Post that the payment was more of a gift than a payment for service.
Cutler is a graduate of Nottingham High School and SU. She was a photography intern for The Post-Standard in 1998 and was photo editor of SU's Daily Orange in 1999 and 2000.
Cutler could not be reached for comment. Her father, Robert Cutler, of Ruth Avenue in Syracuse, said he had not heard about his daughter's dismissal from work and had no comment.
Other blog operators have come to Cutler's defense, preserving her archives and sending letters about free speech to their senators.
The editor of Wonkette.com told The Plain Dealer in Cleveland that she enjoyed Cutler's writing and would like to help her get a literary agent.
One blog has a link to a $4.95 bumper sticker that says "Save Washingtonienne."
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JESSICA CUTLER, a graduate of Nottingham High School and Syracuse University, is unapologetic about losing her job with a U.S. senator over her sex-filled Internet diary. Color
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