Homophobic GOP Nebraska Attorney General broadly insinuates that homophobic GOP opponent is a (heterosexual) pedophile

The Don (left) and Jon show. Two of Nebraska's nastiest
GOP politicians are vying for Ben Nelson's Senate seat.

In November 2003, Nebraska's current AG, Jon Bruning, said Massachusetts' Supreme Court ruling against that state's ban on gay marriages was ridiculous. "Does that mean you have to allow a man to marry his pet, or a man to marry his chair?" Bruning said. "I mean, at some point, it needs to stop." [Associated Press, 11/18/03]
     In 2005, Bruning's current opponent, former AG Don Stenberg, blamed Democrats for liberal judges, gay marriages, abortion and other "social ills."
     This week Bruning was criticized by his rival's campaign manager of being "offensive beyond words" for Bruning's "repeated references to a 62-year-old man [rival Stenberg] and a 14-year-old [Bruning's daughter, Lauren]."
     Bruning and Stenberg are GOP primary rivals for retiring Senate Democrat Ben Nelson's Nebraska seat. Stenberg's campaign evidently tried to follow the private twitter account of Bruning's daughter and was blocked.
     Stenberg said he doesn't manage his twitter account. His campaign uses software to seek out twitter accounts; his campaign manager, Dan Parsons, said the program searches for twitter accounts to follow by keying on words such as "Bruning" and "Stenberg."
      Parsons said that "may" be how the teen received a request. He also said that Bruning deliberately used his own daughter to launch a "disturbing personal attack." Then he noted that if the issue is about age, Bruning himself appears to be following teens — including a 16-year-old girl — on his Twitter account.
     At a debate in Gering, Bruning asked, "Why does a 62-year-old man want to follow a 14-year-old girl on Twitter?" He also said his daughter found Stenberg's request to access her Twitter feed "kind of creepy."
     Later, Bruning said he never meant to imply that Stenberg had improper designs on his daughter.
 

     Similarly, AKSARBENT denies in advance any insinuation that Bruning and Stenberg are both either bags of dirt or scorpions in a bottle. As well as all suggestions that it hopes they both sue each other into penury and afterward contract debilitating diseases which render each incapable of speaking anything ever again. Also, their campaign managers. Any such conclusions are entirely the mistaken and speculative inferences of the readers of AKSARBENT which, like Jon Bruning, denies responsibility for anything it says.