All posts tagged "Nebraska"

An Independent Senate candidate in Nebraska is gaining momentum by attacking Republicans with pun-loaded insults as President Donald Trump's cheap foreign beef sours rural voters on the GOP.

The campaign and fallout around it were detailed in a Saturday article by Politico, which found that Trump's plan to lower beef prices has enraged ranchers who usually vote Republican.

Senate candidate Dan Osborn is challenging Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) with an ad this week that his campaign will spend at least six figures airing, according to Politico....

The largest school district in Nebraska has told police to stop carrying electric shock gloves, the same kind the Trump administration plans to buy.

According to a Saturday article by The Guardian, Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that school resource officers stop using the electric-shock gloves. The Omaha police agreed two days later.

The move followed reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to issue officers the same devices, known as "generated low output voltage emitter" (GLOVE), which have also been used in some jails in recent years, according to The Guardian....

A GOP lawmaker was heckled and booed by angry town hall attendees because of his support for President Donald Trump's signature bill, according to reports.

Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) was "drowned with boos" after he touted voting for the Big Beautiful Bill during a town hall in Nebraska, according to a post on X by American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic super PAC and opposition-research group.

A video accompanying the post showed that Flood was asked what he would do to support benefits for people with disabilities. He answered by talking about the Big Beautiful Bill, which Trump pushed through Congress last year. Flood claimed the bill "protected Medicaid."...

Residents of Lexington, Nebraska, are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would shut down operations early next year.

MS NOW reported Friday from Lexington — the seat of Dawson County, Nebraska, which Trump easily carried with more than 74 percent of the vote last year. Meatpacking company Tyson employs 3,200 people in Lexington, though they will all be out of a job come Jan. 20, when the plant is shutting down.

"Have you ever been in a place where you can just feel the pain and the anxiety? That's what it feels like being here in Lexington, Nebraska," MS NOW reporter Rosa Flores said. "... People have described to me what's happening here by using the words 'catastrophe,' 'crisis,' the feeling of being 'collateral damage,' 'hurt,' 'anxiety,' 'agony.'" ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen needled at the integrity of a reporter of Chinese descent for publishing an investigative article a month ago on his company, Pillen Family Farms, claiming “the author is from Communist China.”

The governor didn't call her out by name but the reporter, Yanqi Xu, works for the independent nonprofit news organization Flatwater Free Press.

She shot back against the comments, claiming that they were unfounded. ...

A dozen lawmakers have now violated a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial disclosure law in 2023 — the latest a Republican representative from Nebraska, according to a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents.

Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) was more than a year late disclosing some of his wife’s purchases of stock in CarterBaldwin, an executive search firm, according to a new congressional financial disclosure.

By law, Smith had 45 days to publicly report his wife’s purchases, all made between January 2022 and February 2023 and together valued between $3,003 and $45,000. (Federal lawmakers are only required to disclose the value of such stock purchases in broad ranges.) ...