A Nebraska state lawmaker is being formally investigated over an alleged conflict of interest for opposing a bill that would restrict gender-affirming care for minors because she has a 12-year-old son who is transgender.
on the legislative floor Wednesday, saying this is “using the legal system that we have in our state — to stop corruption, to increase transparency, to hold governments accountable — and using it to harass a member of legislature.”
“The point isn’t that I could gain financially if my kid has rights,” Hunt said Wednesday. “The point is the harassment.” A number of legislators came to Hunt’s defense, including Sen. Wendy DeBoer , who suggested that she would also run into conflicts when following Begley’s line of reasoning. “Every time we have a tax bill, I’m a taxpayer. So I may be involved in that every time,” she said,Republican Sen. John Arch also denounced the complaint for involving family members, saying, “They don’t get elected. They’re not down here. We sign up for taking the hits. They don’t.
Republican Sen. Tom Brandt called the complaint “offensive” and “so far out of bounds that it does not merit discussion,” according to the
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