Ohio’s Bernie Moreno is trying to blame someone else for his presence on the site.

Ohio’s Bernie Moreno is trying to blame someone else for his presence on the site.

The leading candidate in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary has been linked to a profile on a gay hookup website, sparking in-party fears that he could cost them the race.

Entrepreneur Bernie Moreno is one of three men running to face off against Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in the fall. So far, Moreno is the front-runner, and his far-right stances opposing abortion access and LGBTQ rights have earned him an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.

But in 2008, someone used Moreno’s email address to make an account seeking “Men for 1-on-1 sex” on the casual sex website Adult Friend Finder, the Associated Press reported late Thursday.

  • yuriy@lemmy.world
    48·
    9 months ago

    out👏every👏gay👏republican👏

    no reason they shouldn’t face the same public shaming they impose on everyone else, fair’s fair!

    also god wants you to do it, he told me just now when no one else was looking.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
      13·
      9 months ago

      Moreno’s campaign told the AP that a former intern, Dan Ricci, had created the account as a prank. Ricci also provided a statement saying he made the profile as “part of a juvenile prank.”