FOXNews.com: Nebraska Senate candidate accuses rival of trying to follow daughter on Twitter

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Nebraska Senate candidate accuses rival of trying to follow daughter on Twitter Apr 5th 2012, 21:38 It's not every day that a prominent candidate for U.S. Senate accuses another of being "creepy" and "weird."  But that's what happened during a debate Tuesday, when Nebraska Senate candidate Jon Bruning accused rival Don Stenberg of trying to follow his 14-year-old daughter on Twitter.  "Let me ask you this, Don," Bruning, Nebraska's attorney general, said before veering the debate in the unexpected direction.  "This Sunday, my daughter walks in and she says 'Don Stenberg's trying to follow me on Twitter.' My daughter's 14 years old," he said. "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.'"  Stenberg, the state treasurer and former attorney general for Nebraska, responded that he doesn't control his Twitter account.  "I don't do my own Twitter," Stenberg said.  He then said he'd tell the aide who does control the account to make sure Bruning's daughter is not followed.  "I don't think it's appropriate," Stenberg said.  Bruning repeatedly cited his daughter's age, and said, "that's kind of weird."  The candidates are vying for the Republican nomination, to run for the seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson.  The Stenberg aide who controls the Twitter account told The Omaha World-Herald that he didn't remember requesting to follow Bruning's child.  The aide said it could have happened "inadvertently," and that the campaign uses search engines to follow people.

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