LINCOLN- Jane Kleeb, Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, blasted Nebraska Republicans for sending out an email within hours of the Texas elementary school shooting that attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Carol Blood over a gun bill vote.

“Their subject line was ‘Carol Blood wants us defenseless,’” party Chair Jane Kleeb said in a tweet. “You mean like the kids and their teacher that was killed? Totally disgusting.”

Blood called the email “hateful and meant to generate fear” and said it was “not an appropriate response” to the killing of 19 children and two adults at a school in Uvalde, Texas.

Blood then spoke on opponent Jim Pillen saying, “Mr. Pillen who claims he will not participate in dirty campaigning continues to show us with his silence he will only keep his head down and pretend that his silence does not make him complicit".

Taylor Gage, the state GOP executive director, said the email was a planned communication “and obviously not a response” to the shooting. He said the party’s actual response was a tweet sent out Wednesday morning that said: “Grieving and praying for everyone impacted by the shooting.”

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