Online gaming has become the center of a Maine State Senate race, and it's getting national attention.
The Maine Republican Party launched colleensworld.com last week, pointing out comments democratic candidate Colleen Lachowicz wrote online while playing World of Warcraft.
Since then, national media outlets like CNN and political satirist Stephen Colbert, picked up the story.
"Maine simply cannot afford to have a level 85 orc assassin riding her albino drake through the senate chambers and intimidating colleagues with her guildian ring of ruination," Colbert joked on his show Monday night.
As Lachowicz, a 48-year-old social worker, and her race gets national attention, the Maine GOP is standing by the site. Online, the democrat wrote that she "stabs people" as part of her online persona. She also wrote that she might try to drown Republican Grover Norquist (Norquist once said, "I'm not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub").
"The truth is, we're raising questions about her fitness for office because of the way she's conducted herself," said Maine GOP party director David Sorensen. "Her outrageous comments, including saying she wants to drown a republican in the bathtub."
Lachowicz says she hasn't seen the webiste, or what the GOP says she said.
"I suppose that to someone that doesn't know, it may seem odd, but not to people who play games," said Lachowicz. "It just seems to me to be a distraction."
Lachowicz says she's played World of Warcraft for about 45 minutes in the last 10 months.
We reached out to Lachowicz's opponent, incumbent Thomas Martin, for comment, but he did not return our calls.
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