Nebraska governor's race: 'Tiger King' star helps Sen. Blood shut down fake Twitter account

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Sara Gentzler

After discovering that some uncool cats had created a Twitter account impersonating her campaign, Democratic Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Carol Blood received help from one of the stars of the Netflix series “Tiger King” to shut down the account.

Blood said she recently got help from Carole Baskin, whose online greeting “hey all you cool cats and kittens” became a meme in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when “Tiger King“ exploded in popularity. The deceitful Twitter account used Baskin’s image as a profile photo.

Blood, a state legislator and the only Democrat so far in the governor’s race, views the account as part of a broader, troubling trend of negative campaigning in state politics.

“We live in a world of Us vs. Them,” she said. “And I think it’s wrong that any of the parties — and not just the Republican Party — when they participate in that narrative, then they just make politics more divisive, make campaigns more divisive.”



State Sen. Carol Blood speaks during the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce gubernatorial forum in Lincoln on Thursday.

ANNA REED, THE WORLD-HERALD

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Carol is a good friend of mine BTW.

[turbinetree]

1. Carol Blood.....donation site

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/cb4g

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Impersonating a campaign would be election fraud. . . . nt

[Escurumbele]

3. "and not just the Republican Party"...wait, is she playing "both sides do it"???

I would love to see some proof about that...

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. Its infuriating, but politically necessary to say that

Because right wingers are the biggest snowflakes of them all.

Its not meant for people like us, but for "moderate" voters who may be life long Republicans that are considering voting Democratic. So if this fluffing is not done, the fragile snowflake that is built into wingnuts, rears its head, and they may take it as an insult, that they were stupid to have registered as Republican, and their extended family too.