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  • Republican challenger switches House races to clear NE02 GOP primary field for Bacon vs. Frei

    03/06/2024 6:22:41 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 11 replies
    Nebraska Examiner ^ | 3/1/24 | AARON SANDERFORD
    OMAHA — U.S. Rep. Don Bacon will face one Republican challenger in his party’s May primary instead of two after a candidate who filed to run against him changed his mind Friday. His lone GOP opponent will be Dan Frei of Omaha, a former tea party darling who lost narrowly in the 2014 primary to Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb. Frei says he wants to join the Freedom Caucus if elected. Michael Connely had also filed to run against Bacon in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. He switched races on Friday to run in the 1st District House race. Connely told the...
  • Jubilant Bannon reacts to Trump’s biggest RINO hater endorsing him: “WarRoom posse, you broke them. MAGA broke them” (Don Bacon - NE)

    03/06/2024 2:08:18 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 19 replies
    Revolver ^ | 3/6/24
    One of Trump’s most vocal critics seems to have had a change of heart. Rep. Bacon probably watched the Super Tuesday results come in feeling pretty uneasy, especially seeing President Trump dominate by taking 14 out of the 15 states. The only state he narrowly missed was Vermont, thanks to its open primary system. There, Haley’s Democratic supporters turned out in force for her, netting her a single, rather unimpressive delegate. Join the fight and contribute to our war chest Ditch the ads for $5 per month or $49 per year One of Trump’s most vocal critics seems to have...
  • Nebraska senator has introduced a bill that could make them the first in the country to forbid hedge funds from buying up family properties

    02/16/2024 9:04:18 PM PST · by RandFan · 46 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | Feb 16 | Leading Report
    @LeadingReport BREAKING: Nebraska senator has introduced a bill that could make Nebraska the first in the country to forbid out-of-state hedge funds and other corporate entities from buying up single-family properties.
  • Pictures: Look What a Few Punishing Minutes of Baseball-Sized Hail Did to Massive Nebraska Solar Farm(follow up?)

    07/01/2023 7:45:30 AM PDT · by rktman · 65 replies
    westernjournal.com ^ | 6/29/2023 | Johnathan Jones
    Renewable energy is the alternative that Democrats and other environmental nuts want to replace reliable oil, gas and coal. But time and time again, people who rely on wind and solar power have had to learn the tough lesson that such alternatives are both undependable and susceptible to the same elements they are supposed to harness. Nowhere was that more true than in Nebraska, where a thunderstorm dumped baseball-sized hail on a solar farm on Friday at a speed of 150 mph — destroying the facility in just a few minutes. Cowboy State Daily reported a storm moved east out...
  • Crash tests indicate nation's guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles

    01/31/2024 5:24:37 PM PST · by george76 · 40 replies
    AP ^ | Jan 31, 2024 | MARGERY A. BECK
    Electric vehicles that typically weigh more than gasoline-powered cars can easily crash through steel highway guardrails that are not designed to withstand the extra force, raising concerns about the nation’s roadside safety system, according to crash test data released Wednesday by the University of Nebraska. Electric vehicles typically weigh 20% to 50% more than gas-powered vehicles thanks to batteries that can weigh almost as much as a small gas-powered car. And they have lower centers of gravity. Because of these differences, guardrails can do little to stop electric vehicles from pushing through barriers typically made of steel. Last fall, engineers...
  • 'RINO' Senator Suffers Major Blow After State GOP Backs Challenger

    01/29/2024 12:59:22 PM PST · by cotton1706 · 25 replies
    Indendent Journal Review ^ | 1/29/24 | Jack Davis
    Amid a revolt against incumbents, Nebraska’s State Central Committee of the Republican Party has endorsed a GOP challenger to incumbent Sen. and former Gov. Pete Ricketts. The committee is backing former Air Force Lt. Col. John Glen Weaver, according to the Nebraska Examiner. In 2022, former President Donald Trump branded Ricketts a “RINO,” which means Republican in Name Only, according to KLKN-TV.
  • Dan Frei makes it official, files to challenge Rep. Don Bacon in 2nd District

    01/27/2024 4:42:26 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 8 replies
    Nebraska Examiner ^ | 1/23/24 | Aaron Sanderford
    PAPILLION, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Former Tea Party darling Dan Frei of Omaha filed late last week to challenge U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Papillion in the 2024 GOP primary in the 2nd District. Frei had no immediate comment Saturday about filing. He told the Examiner in early January that he was seriously considering a bid against Bacon. Frei later courted partisans attending a Nebraska Republican Party fundraiser in Omaha involving Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, who has still not conceded her loss in Arizona’s 2022 governor’s race. Some leaders in the Nebraska GOP have said they prefer candidates...
  • Bill Gates Set Up 20 Shell Companies to Hide Purchase of $113 Million of Nebraska Farmland

    01/21/2024 7:17:13 AM PST · by GailA · 39 replies
    The Defender ^ | 1/18/2024 | Destiny Herbers
    Bill Gates Set Up 20 Shell Companies to Hide Purchase of $113 Million of Nebraska Farmland The limited liability companies, buried under layers of business names, overlapping employees and addresses in at least three states, form a network more tangled and opaque than the one created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is buying a giant amount of Nebraska ranch land.
  • Ex-Representative Fortenberry's Convictions Reversed by Federal Appeals Court.

    12/26/2023 4:13:01 PM PST · by gopno1 · 15 replies
    Omaha World Herald ^ | 12/26/2023 | Molly Ashford
    A federal appeals court on Tuesday reversed former Nebraska congressman Jeff Fortenberry's three felony convictions, agreeing with Fortenberry's argument that the trial should not have taken place in California. Fortenberry was convicted by a federal jury in Los Angeles in 2022 on one count of concealing conduit campaign contributions and two counts of lying to federal agents, all felonies. The charges stemmed from Fortenberry allegedly accepting an illegal campaign donation from billionaire Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury at a 2016 fundraiser and then lying about the donation during later interviews with FBI agents. On Tuesday, a panel of three judges with...
  • Several States May Have Measures Next Year for Abortions Up to Birth

    11/16/2023 7:18:24 AM PST · by Morgana · 19 replies
    Life News ^ | November 15, 2023 | Anthony Iafrate
    After Ohio’s Issue 1 vote legalized abortion with no gestational limit, the pro-abortion lobby is planning to put similar referendums on the ballots of many other states. As of November 14, pro-abortion initiatives are guaranteed to be on the ballots of two deep-blue states: Maryland and New York. However, abortion is currently legal in both states until so-called “fetal viability” – which is usually defined as falling between 23 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. Loopholes allow killing babies in abortions up to birth in both states. In many other states, the prospect of putting abortion to a vote next year...
  • Douglas County (Nebraska) Health Confirms TB Case at YMCA

    11/13/2023 3:07:56 PM PST · by Mean Daddy · 13 replies
    The Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) and its partners are responding to a confirmed case of active tuberculosis disease (TB) at Westview YMCA. DCHD is investigating more than 500 possible exposures that may have happened at the facility’s drop-in daycare and is working to identify individuals who had close contact with the patient. Those possible exposures would have happened from late spring into late October. The Douglas County Health Department is investigating the patient’s activities while they were contagious to learn of potential exposures, helping the patient isolate, and observing them complete their medication until they test negative for TB....
  • Omaha police book man charged with child sexual assault into jail

    11/12/2023 8:36:08 AM PST · by Mean Daddy · 8 replies
    Omaha World Herald ^ | Nov. 10, 2023 | Mike Bell
    A man wanted on suspicion of child sexual assault who led authorities on a pursuit Tuesday has been released from the hospital and booked into jail, Omaha police said Friday. Refugio Arcos-Hernandez, 33, is charged with first-degree sexual assault of a child, flight to avoid arrest, weapon possession by a prohibited person, resisting arrest, obstruction, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, willful reckless driving and not having a driver’s license. According to Sarpy County and Omaha authorities, Arcos-Hernandez fled from a traffic stop Tuesday after he was spotted outside Gretna High School. The pursuit ended near 59th and...
  • Suspect arrested in River's Edge Park assault of former U.S. senator

    11/10/2023 7:21:49 AM PST · by Mean Daddy · 29 replies
    Daily Nonpareil ^ | Rachel George
    Omaha police have arrested Dominic M. Henton of Papillion, Nebraska as a suspect in the Wednesday assault of Martha McSally, a former United States senator. Police used surveillance video and other investigative means to identify Henton, according to a news release. In video stills shared by police, Henton is seen following McSally over the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge and then southbound on the trail at Tom Hanafan River's Edge Park in Council Bluffs.
  • Voting Machine Company That ‘Flipped’ Votes in Pennsylvania Admits ‘Someone Programmed the Election’

    11/08/2023 8:53:25 AM PST · by Red Badger · 46 replies
    SLAY News ^ | November 8, 2023 - 10:55 am | Frank Bergman
    A top executive from the company behind the voting machines that “flipped votes” in Pennsylvania on Tuesday has admitted that “someone from our team programmed the election.” The voting machine issued caused votes in an eastern Pennsylvania county to appear to be “flipped” on a ballot question, officials said Tuesday. Voters were asked to decide whether Pennsylvania Superior Court Judges Jack Panella and Victor Stabile should be retained for additional 10-year terms. The “yes” or “no” votes for each judge were switched on a summary displayed to voters before they cast their ballot, said Charles Dertinger, the Northampton County director...
  • Congressman Don Bacon gives his support to new nominee for House Speaker

    10/24/2023 10:44:49 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 21 replies
    https://www.ketv ^ | Oct 25, 2023
    OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon has been very vocal about his opinions on the nominees for House Speaker, but he finally found a candidate that he would support. Advertisement The House Republicans picked a fourth nominee for speaker on Tuesday. The late-night decision comes after the third nominee dropped out before Congress could even take a full vote. On Tuesday, the house GOP conference whittled five names down to one. It's the person who came in second this morning Louisiana's Mike Johnson. The Republican is a lawyer who specializes in constitutional issues. Congressman Bacon told KETV NewsWatch 7...
  • The GOP hates their voters: Republican Rep compares MAGA to Hitler’s Nazi Party…

    10/24/2023 3:39:00 AM PDT · by george76 · 44 replies
    Revolver News ^ | October 24, 2023
    Don’t be fooled; the GOP establishment hates its own voter base, especially those who support President Trump—who make up the vast majority of the party. While the establishment wing of the Grand Old Party has taken a severe beating, a few stragglers still exist and are sabotaging any chance we have of triumphing over the left-wing Marxists. The GOP has long been content to play the role of loyal opposition to the ruling Democrats. The notion that we have two distinct political parties in this country is a farce. Need proof? Just take a gander at the Democrat pushing for...
  • Nebraska RINO Don Bacon Compares America First Movement to Nazi Germany

    10/23/2023 11:15:05 AM PDT · by willk · 50 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Oct. 23, 2023 | Jim Hoft
    GOP turncoat Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) made waves last week by not only going against his party’s consensus but also labeling fellow Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) a “loser” after Republicans voted against him in a secret ballot away from their voting base. Jordan, the most popular Republican lawmaker in Congress, was taken out by the RINO lawmakers who make up the majority of the GOP Caucus. Last Monday, a lobbying firm known to have ties with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell organized a phone call with Don Bacon. An email sent out before the call clarified the agenda by stating,...
  • Reporter is 'shocked' after Nebraska governor dismisses her as being 'from Communist China'

    10/18/2023 2:54:25 PM PDT · by Dr. Marten · 39 replies
    NBC News ^ | 10.18.2023 | Kimmy Yam
    A reporter of Chinese descent is speaking out, weeks after Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen dismissed her article on his company, Pillen Family Farms, because “the author is from Communist China.” Yanqi Xu, 27, who is an immigrant from China and reports for the independent outlet Flatwater Free Press, told NBC News that Pillen's comments were a form of “bias.” Pillen, a Republican, had made the remarks on Omaha radio station KFAB in September, after he was asked to respond to her article that found high levels of nitrate on his hog farms. “Number 1, I didn’t read it. And I...
  • New Nebraska law protects gender-confused youth with regulations on surgeries, drugs

    10/04/2023 4:41:04 AM PDT · by NetAddicted · 3 replies
    Lifesitenews.com ^ | 10/3/2023 | Ashley Sadler
    The new measures ban mutilating surgeries for gender-confused youth and require minors to undergo 40 hours of ‘clinically neutral’ therapy before being prescribed puberty blockers or hormone drugs. LINCOLN, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — A ban on mutilating transgender surgeries for minors and emergency regulations restricting access to transgender drugs took effect Sunday, adding to a growing list of statewide regulations to protect children from permanent physical and psychological damage. Legislative Bill 574, which was approved by Nebraska lawmakers and signed by Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen in May, took effect Sunday and prohibits transgender surgeries for minors like mastectomies and genital...
  • Lancaster County GOP affirms its shift rightward, returning populist and Trump supporter to top job (Nebraska)

    09/21/2023 6:22:15 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 1 replies
    Nebraska Examiner ^ | 9/19/23 | PAUL HAMMEL
    In a reaffirmation of its shift to the right, the Lancaster County Republican Party voted Tuesday night to return a populist and fervent supporter of Donald Trump, Matt Innis, to the post of chairman. Party delegates also passed resolutions condemning the indictments faced by Trump and supporting the impeachment of President Joe Biden — reportedly the first passage of such statements by a county GOP party in Nebraska. Innis, who served as the county’s chairman from 2011-15, claimed 163 votes from the 246 delegates who voted during the county’s fall convention at the Hickman Community Center. He far outdistanced Kris...