Fehrnstrom’s “CrazyKhazei’’ Twitter feed not only challenged Democrat Alan Khazei’s manliness, suggesting he would be a waterboy in the Pan-Mass Challenge in which Brown recently biked, but it also criticized Khazei for not serving in the National Guard, as Brown does.
Fehrnstrom was unmasked as the author Tuesday night, when he mistakenly sent a “CrazyKhazei’’-type tweet from his personal Twitter account, @EricFehrn.
In an e-mail to the Globe Wednesday, Fehrnstrom pointedly did not apologize, saying: “If you can’t stand the tweet, get out of the kitchen.’’
Yesterday, he was the focus of a measure of revenge: Someone created a “crazyfehrnstrom’’ Twitter account and illustrated it with a head shot of H.R. Haldeman, the crewcut-topped onetime chief of staff to President Nixon.
A “CrazyScottBrown’’ account, showing the former model in his now-familiar Cosmopolitan centerfold pose, also was launched.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Republican Party issued a statement putting the focus back on Khazei.
It urged Attorney General Martha Coakley to investigate the propriety of Khazei receiving payments from a charity he oversees, Be the Change, while he was a Senate candidate and the propriety of his approving payments from the charity to his brother for consultant services.
Both issues were the subject of recent reports about Khazei and the charity.
“The people of Massachusetts whom Khazei hopes to represent in the US Senate deserve to know if this charity is being used as a vehicle for Khazei’s own selfish financial interests,’’ Nate Little, executive director of the state GOP, said in the statement.
Brown is seeking his first full, six-year Senate term next year after winning a special election in January 2010 to complete the term of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Khazei, a Brookline resident who cofounded City Year, is among seven Democrats running for their party’s Senate nomination next year. An eighth prospective challenger, Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, is also weighing a campaign.
