Senate hopeful says opponent is Twitter-stalking daughter
Mike Gallagher
You know a campaign is nasty when one candidate makes a thinly veiled accusation that an opponent might be a pedophile.
An April 3 debate in Nebraska's Republican U.S. Senate primary got very awkward when the state's attoey general accused the state's former attoey general of stalking his 14-year-old daughter on Twitter.
Jon Bruning made the accusation after he and Don Stenberg had a heated exchange over Bruning's support of Eric Holder's nomination for U.S. Attoey General.
Said Bruning, \"I'd like to know, why does a 62-year-old man want to follow a 14-year-old girl on Twitter? I'd really like to know.
She said, 'Dad, that's kind of creepy.'\" A flustered Stenberg said someone else in his campaign moderates his account, and that they used search engines to follow \"thousands\" of people.
