CAIRO, Nebraska — State Sen. Dan McKeon of Amherst tried making the case Tuesday close to home that attempts to remove him from the Nebraska Unicameral are a “political game.”

McKeon, at the event he hosted Tuesday in central Nebraska, hinted that other lawmakers might be getting influenced by the governor to vote him out. He said people are “sick and tired of the false accusations that happen culturally” and that his colleagues jumped the gun and don’t have all the facts.

“I’ve officiated [in sports], if I’m not in the right position to make the right call … if I don’t have all my facts, and if I don’t know everything, how can I make that call?” McKeon said at Ol’ Ironsides Barbecue and Banquet Hall in Cairo.

McKeon has been accused by a legislative staffer of making “inappropriate contact with her buttocks with his hand, over the top of her clothing,” according to an incident report filed with the Nebraska State Patrol that a spokesman relayed.

McKeon and his attorney, Perry Pirsch, have denied wrongdoing by the senator, saying his actions were not sexually charged.

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