Posted on 01/09/2026 6:10:38 AM PST by Libloather
A Nebraska state senator caught on video removing portraits of America’s Founders from a hallway in the state Capitol is defending her actions.
Democratic State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh was shown on Capitol security footage taking down portraits from an exhibit celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. The exhibit was provided by conservative nonprofit PragerU and included images of signers of the Declaration of Independence and prominent women in American history, according to Gov. Jim Pillen, who criticized the lawmaker’s actions.
"Celebrating America during our 250th year should be a moment of unity and patriotism, not divisiveness and destructive partisanship," Pillen wrote in a post on X. "I am disappointed in this shameful and selfish bad example."
Cavanaugh told KETV7 Omaha that she removed the portraits because she believed they violated the rules and regulations of the State Capitol and did not believe they had been approved. She cited Rule 4.07, which limits displays to the first-floor rotunda for a one-week period in most cases and prohibits leafleting within the state Capitol or on its grounds.
"I don’t even know what the pictures were. I wasn’t really paying attention as I was taking them down. I just took them down," Cavanaugh said, denying her actions were political. "I will say that I know that the picture that he tweeted is not one of the ones that I took down, because I saw it in a different hallway."
The progressive lawmaker later told the Lincoln Journal Star that she tried not to damage the artwork and contacted the Nebraska State Patrol to let them know where the portraits could be found, according to the Nebraska Examiner.
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More performative diva actions. What I want! Only me!
No citation issued.
It's good to be Deep State.
She should be required to pass a lengthy test on the Founding Fathers, and specifically those in the pictures.
Anything less than an “A” and she loses her job, including ALL benefits!
Pronto.
She’s a traitor.
“I don’t even know what the pictures were….”
…she’d know Stalin, Marx, Che and Mao though I’d bet.
“I don’t even know what the pictures were. I wasn’t really paying attention as I was taking them down. I just took them down,”
Liar. I’m sure she regards the founders only as slave owning white supremacists. Those are crazy liberal eyes in that photo.
Ravishing compared to the photos in the article. Frumpy, fat, stupid. Insufferably self righteous. She checks many boxes
Probably Nebraska students, where the “N” on the helmet stands for “knowledge”.
I am so tired of crazed, spoiled, liberal, white women fools.
The progressive lawmaker later told the Lincoln Journal Star that she tried not to damage the artwork and contacted the Nebraska State Patrol to let them know where the portraits could be found, according to the Nebraska Examiner.
She may be from Nebraska, but she evidently wants to be a "Minnesota nice" kinda of protester.
For the record, there is no such thing as "Minnesota nice" in Minnesota anymore thanks to BLM, the Somalis and the all the Democrats like Tampon Timmy and Amy Clarkbar.
“I don’t even know what the pictures were. I wasn’t really paying attention as I was taking them down. I just took them down,” Cavanaugh said, denying her actions were political.
Well, at least she’s admitting that she’s stoo-pid!
Leftists lie like they breathe air
Politicians don’t do ANYTHING requiring physical labor unless it is for political posturing. Most are allergic to anything even looking like it would require them to get off their butt.
She knew exactly what she was doing and for what purpose... any explanations are just her trying to muddy the waters, to confuse the margins who don’t see WHY she did it.
And the why is because leftists cannot have a competing ideology when they are in the midst of their political and cultural revolution.
They must always erase the past so they can press forward with the new big lie.
No, she is thinking you are stupid enough to believe that.
Enough people in Nebraska are that stupid.
Let’s be reasonable........when she stupidly took down the Founder’s
portraits, Machaela she had just had both her hair AND nails done.
Also see my tagline.
Democrats feel entitled to do whatever they wish.
<><>Pull down signs.
<><>Deface statues.
<><>Crap on US history
<><>Whatever.
It’s because they “feel” s-o-o-o-o much more virtuous than the rest of us.
Looks like Machaela got a mega-dose of feel-good entitlement.
The 19th Amendment was a huge mistake.
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Correct. The 19th amendment has to go, along with the 17th amendment.
And it’s time to undo that mistake.
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