OMAHA- The latest heel turn in Nebraska’s 2nd District race between Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon and Democratic State Sen. Tony Vargas involves formal complaints filed targeting both. Action on either allegation by the Office of Congressional Ethics or the Federal Election Commission is unlikely before Election Day on Nov. 5. Voters are on their own to weigh the allegations, the motives of the people and groups behind them and the responses of the candidates themselves in the campaign’s last moments.

The most recent is a complaint against Bacon filed by Nancy Meyer of Cedar Bluffs with the House Office of Congressional Ethics, which screens and forwards such complaints to the House Ethics Committee. Meyer’s complaint alleges Bacon misused government resources by signing a letter on official House office letterhead urging the Nebraska Legislature to change how it awards Electoral College votes.

Bacon recently highlighted an FEC complaint against a group that paid Vargas that was filed in March by the right-leaning Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, previously funded by the Koch brothers. That group argued that a $60,000 fellowship program that Vargas and other candidates participated in between his 2022 and 2024 congressional campaigns should have been listed as a political donation.

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