 He was re-elected in 2010 at the same time that Cagle won re-election as lieutenant governor.In March 2018, the day after he filed papers qualifying to run for lieutenant governor, an unidentirr lobbyist filed a complaint accusing Shafer of sexually harassing comments seven years earlier.Shafer forcefully denied the allegations, saying that the accuser was a woman he had dated in the 1990s prior to his election to the Senate and that he had never been alone with her after his election as a State Senator in 2002, producing affidavits from his staff saying he had instructed them never to schedule events with her or allow her to meet with him alone on his office.