Nebraska state Senator Steve Halloran on Monday decided to mock a Dem colleague’s opposition to his “obscenity” bill by inserting her name into a passage about rape during debate, leading to tripartisan calls for the sick son of a bitch to resign immediately, the Washington Post reports.
The Post tries to give Halloran a small shred of deniability because when he read a rape scene from Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky – one of the books he’s trying to get banned from schools – it wasn’t clear that he was definitely referring to Dem state Senator Machaela Cavanaugh or her brother, state Senator John Cavanaugh (also a Democrat), when he replaced the rape victim character’s name with “Senator Cavanaugh.” Problem is that the character is female and it was still perfectly on-brand MAGA fucking twisted even if Halloran was describing John as the one being raped.
“I have done nothing but try to have a respectful debate with [Republican bill author] Senator Albrecht about her bill that impacts my children,” Cavanaugh said afterward. “That was so out of line and unnecessary and disgusting to say my name over and over again like that.”