Amherst Sen. Dan McKeon. (Courtesy of the Nebraska Legislature)LINCOLN–(KFOR/Nebraska Examiner Dec. 13)–In a meeting held Saturday at the Nebraska State Capitol, members of the Nebraska Legislature’s Executive Board voted to recommend that Amherst State Senator Dan McKeon be expelled from the Legislature, after allegations of him groping a female staffer at an end of session party for senators last May. The vote was unanimous among 9 of the 10 members of the Executive Board. Sumner Senator Teresa Ibach was not able to attend Saturday’s meeting because of winter weather. The Nebraska Examiner reports the expulsion recommendation does require a full vote from the Legislature to pass. It will go before Lawmakers when the 60-day session starts in January. Allegations of McKeon’s misconduct arose after the Nebraska State Patrol got a report that he allegedly “made inappropriate contact with her buttocks with his hand, over the top of her clothing,” according to the State Patrol. The Patrol cited McKeon for misdemeanor public indecency. The Lancaster County Attorney’s Office recently downgraded the allegation to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. McKeon’s arraignment on the separate criminal charge is set for 9am Wednesday. In a statement from Executive Board Chair State Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair on behalf of the committee, the board concluded the expulsion recommendation was necessary “in light of a demonstrated pattern of behavior by Senator McKeon and not in response to a single isolated incident.” “Board members emphasized that the action was taken to protect the integrity of the Nebraska Legislature and to uphold the standards expected of its members,” Hansen’s statement reads. McKeon is a registered Republican who was elected to the officially nonpartisan Legislature in 2024, replacing former State Sen. Fred Meyer of St. Paul. ...read more read less