The Idaho House Ethics Committee voted unanimously last week to censure Rep. Priscilla Giddings and strip her of one of her committee assignments.

Rep. Giddings has decided to use the ethics case against her as a new way to raise funds in her campaign to run for Idaho lieutenant governor.

The Idaho Press reports, in two widely disseminated fundraising emails and additional appeals on Facebook, Giddings blames House Speaker Scott Bedke, who also is running for lieutenant governor next year, for her ethics charges.

Rep. Brent Crane is a member of the Ethics Panel and like Giddings is a Republican, calledher contention that the House speaker somehow controls which ethics complaints are considered “patently false” and “an outright lie.”