A GOP Nebraska lawmaker has been skewered by those in his own party after he substituted two rival colleagues’ names into a rape scene of a book he read aloud in front of the Nebraska Senate on Monday night.
The disgusting incident came as senators debated a bill related to book bans. That’s when Sen. Steve Halloran, a Republican, used his time on the floor to read a graphic passage from Lucky, by Alice Sebold, which includes a graphic description of a rape Sebold survived in college.
Halloran didn’t just read the book verbatim, however. Instead, he replaced the perpetrator’s name with “Sen. Cavanaugh” during the rape sequence, a clear reference to the Democratic Senators Machaela and John Cavanaugh, who are siblings.
