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"Independent" [actually a leftist] Senate candidate Dan Osborn has spent months assuring Nebraska voters that the various recordings, lawsuits, and internet histories attached to his name were the work of other people, shared accounts, and mysterious third parties who somehow knew his birthday and home address.
But low and behold, new audio has now arrived to complicate that message.
In the recording, Osborn can be heard saying, "Fat chicks and big, black c**k." He then added, "Big black c**k."
He also said, "The brown people are coming up here to kill us and rape us."
Campaign aides described the comments as taken out of context, though they declined to identify a context in which those sentences would land better. A spokesman said the voice on the tape sounded "a lot like Dan" but stressed that several people have access to Dan.
The audio joins a growing stack of materials Nebraska voters were not supposed to notice.
In the recording, Osborn can be heard saying, "Fat chicks and big, black c**k." He then added, "Big black c**k."
He also said, "The brown people are coming up here to kill us and rape us."
Campaign aides described the comments as taken out of context, though they declined to identify a context in which those sentences would land better. A spokesman said the voice on the tape sounded "a lot like Dan" but stressed that several people have access to Dan.
The audio joins a growing stack of materials Nebraska voters were not supposed to notice.
In 2021, Kellogg's, you know them as the cereal company, obtained a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit that named the union, its Omaha local, and Osborn personally during a strike he led. The company alleged that members under his leadership threatened workers' lives, threatened that a worker's wife and young children would be assaulted "including sexually," followed workers home, and used racial slurs. A judge granted the order. It was later dropped after the union ratified a contract and the strike ended.
Osborn, married since 2002, also turned up in the 2015 Ashley Madison breach. An email linked to his birthdate and home address appeared in the dump from the site built for married people seeking affairs. The campaign said he never used the site and that the email belonged to a "shared corporate account" used by "multiple people." It did not explain why a shared account required Osborn's birthdate and home address. The public learned of the match in 2024.
That same year, reporters found an X account labeled "Dan Osborn President BCTGM 50G" that had liked hardcore gay pornography and images of naked women between 2020 and 2021. One liked post was an explicit video of Black men performing sex acts. The campaign again said the account was used by "multiple people." The National Republican Senatorial Committee later cut the likes into a digital ad titled "Dirty Dan."
Osborn has also said on other leaked recordings that he is aligned with the Democratic Party, a detail his independent branding had not emphasized.
Asked about the latest tape, the campaign repeated its standing explanation: somebody else. Critics noted that the somebody else now appears to have Osborn's voice, Osborn's union title, Osborn's address, and Osborn's habit of liking the same category of posts the campaign says he did not like. Osborn's team said it is looking into whether the somebody else can be persuaded to stop.
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Osborn, married since 2002, also turned up in the 2015 Ashley Madison breach. An email linked to his birthdate and home address appeared in the dump from the site built for married people seeking affairs. The campaign said he never used the site and that the email belonged to a "shared corporate account" used by "multiple people." It did not explain why a shared account required Osborn's birthdate and home address. The public learned of the match in 2024.
That same year, reporters found an X account labeled "Dan Osborn President BCTGM 50G" that had liked hardcore gay pornography and images of naked women between 2020 and 2021. One liked post was an explicit video of Black men performing sex acts. The campaign again said the account was used by "multiple people." The National Republican Senatorial Committee later cut the likes into a digital ad titled "Dirty Dan."
Osborn has also said on other leaked recordings that he is aligned with the Democratic Party, a detail his independent branding had not emphasized.
Asked about the latest tape, the campaign repeated its standing explanation: somebody else. Critics noted that the somebody else now appears to have Osborn's voice, Osborn's union title, Osborn's address, and Osborn's habit of liking the same category of posts the campaign says he did not like. Osborn's team said it is looking into whether the somebody else can be persuaded to stop.
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