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Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Originally published January 31, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Budget, Budget, Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Education, Featured, Federal, Founding Principles, Government Spending, In the News, Lincoln Public Schools, Local, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, Progressivism, Regulation, Taxes, Welfare Tagged With: 16 ounce soda limit, banning unhealthy food, bill avery, brown bag lunch, brown bagging, C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis on tyranny, childhood obesity, clancy brothers and tommy makem, connemara, diet, dr. bob rauner, eating at school, fast food kids' meals, food ban, food police, food stamps, free lunch, free or reduced price lunch, free school lunch, God in the Dock, government, government regulation, government spending, healthy food, Hispanic Federation, home cooking, homefeeding, homeschooling, is soda a food, keep the smoke from risin' barney, kids' meals, lb447, limit food stamp use to healthy food, limited government, mayor bloomberg, meals at school, michael bloomberg, Michelle Obama, mike douglas show, moonshine, mountain tay, NAACP, ne, nebr, nebraska, nebraska budget, nebraska legislature, nebraska medical association, nebraska medical association public health committee, nebraska unicameral, new york city, nutrition, obesity, obesity among children, one size fits all, one size fits all government program, parental rights, platte institute snap program, politicians, politics, progressivism, public health committee, public kitchens, public schools, reduced price school lunch, revenuers, sales tax exemption on food, sales tax on food, salt ban, school inspector confiscates kid's lunch, school lunch program, school lunches, silver tongued devil, snap, snap program, soda ban, soda tax bill, state senator bill avery, state senators, summer school lunch program, supplemental food and nutrition program, taking lunch to school, tax subsidies, taxing unhealthy food, the hand is quicker than the eye, toys in kids' meals, trans-fat ban, tyranny, Unicameral, USDA, USDA regulations

NE Proposed Amendment No. 1: Vote AGAINST More Political Games

Originally published October 26, 2012, By GiN Admin. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

NE Proposed Amendment No. 1: Vote AGAINST More Political Games

Editor’s Note: If you’re looking for information about any of the other proposed amendments which will appear on Nebraska ballots statewide on November 6, click

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Campaign Finance, Constitution, Elections, Featured, Follow the Money, Nebraska, Non-profits, Political Action Committees, Ruling Class, Senators, State Legislation, Unicameral Tagged With: 102nd unicameral, amendment 1 nebraska, amendments on the ballot november 6, ballot measures, ballot questions, bill avery, board of regents, campaign committees, campaign finance, civil officers, constiution of the state of nebraska, criminal prosecution of politicians, impeachment of officials, lr19ca nebraska, ne proposed amendment no. 1, ne unicameral, nebraska, nebraska accountability and disclosure commission, nebraska amendments, nebraska constitution, nebraska impeachment, nebraska legislature, nebraska political accountability and disclosure act, nebraska unicameral, officials misconduct, political gamesmanship, political harassment, politicans, proposed amendments, senator avery, senator bill avery, state ballot issues, state ballot measures, state legislation, state senators, tom white, unelected bodies, unelected political appointees

Deserving of Darts: NE Unicameral – Voter ID Bites the Dust

Originally published April 1, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 5 Comments

Deserving of Darts: NE Unicameral – Voter ID Bites the Dust

The Nebraska Unicameral, is, as we all know, a one house legislative body, and, officially “non-partisan”. After having observed the legislative process for quite some time, both from a distance, and up close, we stopped puzzling over this paradigm. What the Nebraska Unicameral is, is clear. Last fall, Linda wrote the following article: Nebraska is […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Elections, Featured, Government Spending, Nebraska, REAL ID, Republican Party, Ruling Class, Senators Tagged With: 1919-1920 nebraska constitutional convention, abbie cornett, amanda mcgill, annette dubas, bill avery, brad ashford, brenda cook, brenda council, burke haar, charlie janssen, charlie janssen voter id, danielle conrad, election fraud, filibuster, gwen howard, heath mello, how did my state senator vote on voter id?, how many republicans are in the nebraska unicameral?, how to steal an election, jeremy nordquist, john fund, john seiler, kathy campbell, ken haar, lb239, lb239 voter id, leroy louden, louden present not voting, mike flood, ne unicameral, ne vote for cloture, ne voter id, nebraska, nebraska constitution, nebraska history, nebraska is a one party state, nebraska legislature, nebraska state legislature, norm wallman, norman wallman, red states, roll call vote voter id nebraska, russ karpisek, senators vote on voter id, senators who voted against voter id, state legislation voter id, state legislation voter identificaiton, steve lathrop, super majority republicans, unicameral 2012, unicameral legislature, vote fraud, voter fraud, voter id, voter id cloture vote, voter id filibuster, voter id legislation, voter id nebraska, voter registration fraud, voting fraud

Stopping The Big Government Trend: Have We Earned It?

Originally published October 31, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 31, 2010. Leave a Comment

Stopping The Big Government Trend: Have We Earned It?

Those of us who believe our state and our country are going very much in the wrong direction should expect it will require much from all of us. Are we all doing all that we can do? George Washington’s favorite play was Cato, the story of a Roman who struggled, along with others to preserve […]

Filed Under: 2010 Election, Featured Tagged With: addison, amanda mcgill, amendment 1, amendment 2, amendments to nebraska constitution, american revolution, ballot, ballots, benedict arnold, bill, bill avery, brent smoyer, campaign, campaigning, campaigns, cato, chad wright, City of Lincoln, county board, county commission, danielle conrad, democrat, democrats, election 2010, election day, election issues, george washington, greg butcher, Health Care, healthcare, impacting the election, influence of cato, jim smith, john comstock, kent rogert, Lancaster County, law, legisalture, Legislation, legislative candidates, legislators, lydia brasch, making phone calls, nancy russell, ne election, november 2, nullification, polling places, republican, republicans, rides, sample ballots, sign waves, spending deficit, state of nebraska, state sovereignty, tom dierks, Unicameral, volunteering, vote no on amendment 1, vote on tuesday, walking blocks

GiN Election Information: Now Available Here In Printable Form

Originally published October 29, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 29, 2010. Leave a Comment

GiN Election Information: Now Available Here In Printable Form

For readers’ convenience, we have prepared a printable PDF version of the election information we’ve put out. Feel free to download, print, and share. Just click anywhere on either snapshot below to download and view. If you’d rather view the full-sized PDF before downloading and printing, click HERE. I have set the link to open […]

Filed Under: 2010 Election, Featured Tagged With: amanda mcgill, amendment, amendment 1, amendment 2, amendments, ballot, bill avery, borrowing, brenty smoyer, candidates, chad wright, city funding, city government, county board, county government, danielle conrad, debt, deficit, district 26, district 28, district 46, economic development, election 2010, election day, electionne, federal funding, funding sources, gin, gin cheat sheet, Government Spending, Grassroots in Nebraska, greg butcher, indebtedness, lancaster, lancaster county commission, mesures, nancy russell, nebraska constitution, november 2, projects, questions, shane osborn, state treasurer, tom dierks

Candidate Interviews on Lincoln KLIN Radio

Originally published October 29, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 29, 2010. Leave a Comment

Several candidates we mentioned previously have been interviewed on KLIN’s Jack and John In The Morning Show and Drive Time Lincoln with Coby Mach. Click the candidate’s name to listen to the interview. We recommend keeping an eye on KLIN’s front page as there seem to be new interviews added daily. Brent Smoyer for Lancaster […]

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2010 Election NE Unicameral: Show These 3 Senators the Door

Originally published October 22, 2010, By Linda. Updated October 22, 2010. 1 Comment

2010 Election NE Unicameral: Show These 3 Senators the Door

We urge everyone to do their homework and make up their own minds about who they believe is worthy of their vote. However, if you are looking for some insight from those of us at GiN, we have included information here for your consideration about where we stand regarding particular districts and a few candidates. […]

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Election 2010: A Whole Lotta Hype or Can YOU Help NE?

Originally published October 21, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated December 2, 2011. Leave a Comment

Election 2010: A Whole Lotta Hype or Can YOU Help NE?

By Shelli Dawdy There’s been a lot of hype about November 2, 2010, a good deal of which amounts to distracting people from focusing on important races and issues within their state, county, and local area. I hope I’m wrong about what may happen when reality starts to set in in the weeks and months […]

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Help Give Senator Bill Avery Early Retirement

Originally published April 22, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated April 22, 2010. 3 Comments

Help Give Senator Bill Avery Early Retirement

Nebraska’s primary election is May 11. If we wish government policy and debate to be based on Constitutional principles, we need to focus some of our time and resources on affecting who is getting elected. Noting that time and resources are at a premium for all of us (as an all-volunteer group) we recognize we […]

Filed Under: 2010 Election, Action Alerts, Activism, Volunteers Tagged With: 2010 elections, bill avery, candidate support nebraska, grassroots activism nebraska, grassrootsne, lincoln tea party, lincoln teaparty, may 11 ne primary, may 11 nebraska primary, may 11 primary, ne grassroots, ne sovereignty, nebraska 2010 election, nebraska legislature, nebraska tea party activists, nebraska unicameral, negrassroots, senator bill avery, sovereignty resolution nebraska

Lincoln Journal Star Article on February 19 Sovereignty Hearing Requires Comments

Originally published February 21, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 25, 2011. Leave a Comment

Lincoln Journal Star Article on February 19 Sovereignty Hearing Requires Comments

The Lincoln Journal Star carried an article about the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee hearing that was held on Friday entitled “Bill Would Give Voice to States’ Rights”. This article requires parsing and needs to be commented on by those who support the Constitution and a return to a truly Federalist Republic. Before presenting […]

Filed Under: Action Alerts, GiN in the news, State Legislation, Tenth Amendment, Unicameral Tagged With: 912 omaha, bill avery, charles key, committee hearing, government military and veterans affairs committee, Grassroots in Nebraska, journal star, karpisheck, l.r.292, lincoln journal star, lincoln nebraska newspaper, lincoln newspaper, ljs, lr 292, media coverage of nebraska soverignty hearing, minutemen, minutemen patriots, nebraska, nebraska capitol, nebraska legislature, nebraska news stories, ok, ok state rep. charles key, oklahoma, rep. key, representative key, scott price, senator avery, senator fulton, senator karpisheck, senator price, senator scott price, senator sullivan, senator tony fulton, senatory bill avery, sovereignty hearing, sovereignty nebraska, sovereignty resolution, State Capitol, state sovereignty, Tenth Amendment, Unicameral

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