Lincoln Journal-Star: State Sen. Kintner may have chatted nude online with a blackmailing stranger

Nebraskans who have long suspected that the loose cannon Tea Party state senator from Papillion isn't the sharpest tool in the Unicameral sausage factory won't have their suspicions assuaged by the newest revelations about his behavior from the Lincoln Journal-Star:

     ...A source familiar with the case told the Journal Star that Kintner himself told investigators about the video exchange when he reported computer problems to the Nebraska State Patrol in July 2015.
    ...Soon after, on Aug. 4, a junior state senator began receiving Facebook messages from an account with a woman's picture, using "broken English" and offering to sell something she said would damage Kintner politically.
     "I just ignored it because I thought it was spam," the  lawmaker said Saturday.
     The person repeated the offer to the junior senator on Aug. 25, this time exchanging several messages and offering to share "a video ... a nakked for Senator Bill Klntner."
     The person claimed to have demanded Kintner himself give money to a deaf child in exchange for keeping quiet about the alleged video, but that Kintner had declined, according to the junior senator.

Did a Nebraska State Patrolman try to bully the state senate's IT Dept. over senator's sex video?

The Omaha World-Herald has updated its story about the revelations that antigay GOP state senator Bill Kintner's computer was discovered to have sexually compromising video involving Kintner.
     Kintner recently confessed to a fellow state senator, a member of his bible study group, that he had used his state computer for erotic exchanges with a woman.
     Sen. Bob Krist, chair of the Unicameral’s Executive Committee, said he notified GOP Gov. Ricketts’ chief of staff after a junior senator was solicited online with an offer to sell the senator an explicit video involving Kintner.

     Krist said he was made aware of the matter after two State Patrol troopers and a legislative information technology worker went to Kintner’s office to look into his concerns about his email possibly having been hacked or scammed. The Executive Committee that Krist chairs supervises all legislative services and employees.
     Krist said the IT worker went to him because he felt he had been interrogated by Kintner and the patrol about the Legislature’s security system on senator email accounts.
     Krist said he met with Patrol Col. Brad Rice after the incident, and Rice agreed that the State Patrol breached protocol, and that the IT worker should’ve been represented by legal counsel.

Above: State Senators Bill Kintner (left) and Bob Krist

     Kintner's wife of seven years, the former Lauren Hill, leads Gov. Ricketts’ policy research office. She is battling ovarian cancer.
     Jane Kleeb, the chairman-elect of the Nebraska Democratic Party, has been sharply critical of Ricketts' delay in going public with a scandal he knew about last year, tweeting: “Party of Trump and Ricketts look other way while Sen. Kintner has sexually explicit video of himself on state computer"

NE finds sex video of antigay whack job state sen. on one of its computers

Related: Did a Nebraska State Patrolman try to bully the Legislature's IT Dept. on behalf of state senator Bill Kintner?
 
Antigay Bill Kintner, the craziest Republican in the Nebraska Unicameral, is, according to the Lincoln Journal Star, "suspected of having a sexually explicit video of himself on his state computer:"
     This is very naughty, as Nebraska law prohibits public officials from using state computers for "nonessential personal activity."
     Kintner isn't available for comment right now. He's in Indianapolis at an ALEC meeting where he will receive his marching orders and pre-written legislation to introduce in Nebraska, courtesy of the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers and others who fund ALEC.
     We suspect that we would take issue with the state over what it does and doesn't consider essential personal activity, but that argument is for another day. The LJS goes on:

     The probe started with a complaint by Kintner himself, who contacted the Nebraska State Patrol in July 2015 about "what he believed to be a potential internet scam that occurred while the senator was in Massachusetts using his state computer," the patrol confirmed in a release Friday.
     Findings from the yearlong investigation have been turned over to a state agency that handles ethics complaints against public officials. The Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission is expected to weigh in on the issue during a meeting Aug. 5.
     Frank Daley, the commission's executive director, declined to comment Friday.
     Kintner could not immediately be reached.
     ...Omaha Sen. Bob Krist said he informed Gov. Pete Ricketts' chief of staff, Matt Miltenberger, last fall that there was a sexually explicit video involving Kintner that had been brought to senators' attention. 
     And another fellow senator said he contacted the State Patrol around the same time, after a woman offered to sell what she called a sexually explicit video of Kintner.

Now that the legislative session is over, GOP Gov. Ricketts is calling for Kintner to resign:

“Upon learning from the State Patrol of their investigation, I phoned Senator Kintner and urged him to resign if the allegations were true. Due to the ongoing investigation of this issue, I have been unable to say anything publicly. If the allegations are true, Senator Kintner needs to resign.”