GOP Ohio Rep Uses Virtual Background To Hide That He’s Driving During Zoom Hearing On Distracted Driving

Gizmodo reports:

Andrew Brenner, a state senator in Ohio, is getting some heat for driving while participating in a Zoom call earlier this week. The Ohio Senate is currently taking up a bill that would create additional penalties for distracted driving and a local newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, pointed out the irony of the situation.

But local media aren’t discussing perhaps the funniest aspect of this whole minor scandal: Brenner turned on a virtual background to make it appear like he was at home in his office. And he failed miserably. Brenner turned his camera on and off repeatedly in an apparent effort to disguise where he was actually calling from.

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This Ohio State Senator thought he was slick, using a Zoom background of his home office while driving… debating a bill for harsher penalties for distracted driving https://t.co/XfangsLaHX pic.twitter.com/r55ti7bsma

— Brody Logan (@BrodyLogan) May 6, 2021