The issue focused on the question of how to process any social media campaign.

"In all my years, I have never seen a case like this in which an entire family is being held against their will and had it not been for the fact that we are now public officials, I would be very concerned about this," O'Brien said. "I am just so deeply troubled by it. It's very difficult to see this."

O'Brien was first elected to the state House of Representatives in