Terry’s campaign is accusing their political opponents, of “stalking (Terry’s) wife and scaring their young children with intrusive, in-your-face video taping.” Terry issued a statement saying, “They can tape me all they want–but lay off my wife and kids.”

Jane Kleeb, a member of BOLD Nebraska which has been following Terry with a camera, tells Nebraska Watchdog that Terry’s claims are “over the top and 100% untrue.”

At the same time Terry’s campaign manager, David Boomer, acknowledges that he recently walked up to White with a video camera and asked White how he would have voted on extending unemployment benefits. Boomer says he approached White after the 4th of July neighborhood parade on J E George Boulevard where White walked away without answering.

As for the incidents involving Terry and his family, one was during a July 3rd political rally in Omaha the other during a tax protest last week in Lincoln.

Kleeb tells Nebraska Watchdog that her organization which she describes as “progressive, moderate and populist” was videotaping both events. She says during the Omaha rally one of Terry’s campaign workers “blocked our blogger from taking video.”  According to Boomer, Terry’s campaign manager, “three Democrat-paid trackers” were taping Terry and blocking the crowd’s view.

Boomer says during the Lincoln event Mrs. Terry “was accosted, followed and videotaped” by someone with White’s campaign. Kleeb says they only ”asked Ms. Terry a few questions…we have never stalked her or asked his kids questions.” Ian Russell, White’s campaign manager, insists they had nothing to do with either event. Russell tells Nebraska Watchdog they “don’t hire trackers.”

“Trackers”– individuals armed largely with hand-held video cameras recording candidates during public appearances–have become commonplace in politics. Many are trying to catch their political prey in a verbal slip-up that can stop a campaign in its tracks. The most notable incident involved former Republican Presidential hopeful George Allen, who was videotaped using the work “macaca” to describe a man of Indian descent. The 2006 foot-in-mouth gaffe ended Allen’s White House bid.

Just a few days before this latest Terry-White dispute the National Democratic Party launched a Website yearning for more macaca missteps. The Accountability Project seeks to “hold Republican candidates accountable for their claims, their public statements, and their campaign tactics.”

According to Boomer, Terry is clearly a target of the Democratic Party’s Nebraska Watchdog that what goes around comes around. Russell notes that last year the Nebraska Republican Party was on-line offering two free Nebraska football tickets to whoever came up with “the most useful information” that could be used against White.