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Not Really Adjourned: NE Legislature, Medicaid Expansion, ObamaCare

Originally published June 11, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Not Really Adjourned: NE Legislature, Medicaid Expansion, ObamaCare

“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.” ~ Gideon J. Tucker, 18661The quotation is often attributed to Mark Twain, but that’s an error. We previously gave attribution to Twain ourselves. Gideon Tucker does …continue Wednesday, June 5, was the final day of the 103rd Unicameral, 1st Session. I […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Care, Medicaid, Nebraska, Senators, State Legislation, Unicameral Tagged With: beau mccoy, colby coash, health care law, kathy campbell, lb577, medicaid, medicaid expansion, nebraska department of health and human services, nebraska republicans, obamacare, state legislature, Unicameral

NEGOP: Help us understand how you differ from Democrats

Originally published March 1, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 3 Comments

NEGOP: Help us understand how you differ from Democrats

I am in receipt of your recent Chairman’s Report update, and would like to report an injury; I have some bruising of the chin area, sustained when my jaw hit the floor from incredulity. This from the state Republican Party chairman whose senators own a super majority in the legislature, the same legislature that is about to pass without serious debate, challenge, or objection, a huge increase in the Nebraska Medicaid entitlement program?  Read full articleNEGOP: Help us understand how you differ from Democrats

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VIDEO Exclusive: NE Teachers’ Union Wants “Pet” NE Senators to “Stay”

Originally published November 5, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated May 13, 2016. Leave a Comment

VIDEO Exclusive: NE Teachers’ Union Wants “Pet” NE Senators to “Stay”

NE’s most powerful special interest lobby supports “the public option” for health care and other extreme left-wing agenda items, and in addition to their “investments” in many of our elected officials, NSEA has moved to provide $5,000 for radio ads to advocate for the extension of NE State Senators’ term limits. Read full articleVIDEO Exclusive: NE Teachers’ Union Wants “Pet” NE Senators to “Stay”

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NE Teachers Union Funded Term Limit Extension Ads

Originally published November 3, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

NE Teachers Union Funded Term Limit Extension Ads

Radio ads advocating for the extension of the current limit on Nebraska State Senators’ terms have been playing on Nebraska airwaves for the past couple of days[1. The airing of the ads was first reported by Linda and later confirmed by my husband and a number of the attendees at our Thursday, November 1 Election […]

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NE Term Limit Extension Sponsor Tom Carlson: Two Minds or a Forked Tongue?

Originally published November 1, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 8 Comments

NE Term Limit Extension Sponsor Tom Carlson: Two Minds or a Forked Tongue?

Important update on Saturday, November 3: Check our Home page – the featured slider – for a new article about the funding source for an ad campaign supporting this issue. (A link will be added here once published.) District 38 State Senator Tom Carlson (Holdrege), was the sponsor of the legislative resolution which resulted in […]

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Fortenberry Needs To Hear From YOU: Townhall Schedule (Lincoln TONIGHT)

Originally published August 7, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Fortenberry Needs To Hear From YOU: Townhall Schedule (Lincoln TONIGHT)

Nebraska’s First District Congressman Jeff Fortenberry is convening townhall meetings during Congress’ August recess. We at GiN have long believed that Mr. Fortenberry should be replaced with an actual limited government representative because the evidence shows that he cannot be described as such. As Linda wrote in a September 2011 article, Fortenberry… “…spends money like […]

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Profiling Jon Bruning: An Unorthodox Analysis

Originally published May 11, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Profiling Jon Bruning: An Unorthodox Analysis

Jon Bruning Last summer, we published articles about three of the five GOP primary candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Ben Nelson. Those three articles were informational in nature, not analytical. (We hope to update these with some analysis in short order, time permitting): Senator Deb Fischer Hat in Widening GOP […]

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Governor Heineman Really Liked Purple People Before They Were “Cool”

Originally published September 13, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated December 9, 2014. Leave a Comment

Governor Heineman Really Liked Purple People Before They Were “Cool”

Most Nebraskans believe Dave Heineman is very conservative. Why, then, are his largest political contributors, the state teachers’ union and SEIU, the notorious labor union? Read full articleGovernor Heineman Really Liked Purple People Before They Were “Cool”

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Jon Bruning Announces Bid For Senate – We Should Listen To Our Mommas

Originally published November 8, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated May 3, 2012. 3 Comments

Jon Bruning Announces Bid For Senate – We Should Listen To Our Mommas

What seems like five minutes after Tuesday’s election, we heard from newly re-elected Governor Dave Heineman that he was not interested in running for the United States Senate seat currently held by Ben Nelson that will be up for re-election in 2012. Certainly, considering the almost continuous sparring between the Governor and Senator Nelson over […]

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