Posted on 12/06/2022 9:47:49 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) on Tuesday announced he’ll try for the appointment to replace outgoing Sen. Ben Sasse (R) and represent the state in the U.S. Senate, according to local outlets.
“For me, it came down to a single question: How can I best serve the people of Nebraska and advance our conservative values? In Congress, we’re in a fight for the future of our nation, and it’s a fight we have to win. We must cut taxes, strengthen public safety and our national security, and protect our most sacred freedoms,” Ricketts said in a statement shared with The Hill.
Ricketts was already set to leave the governor’s office in January, having not sought reelection due to term limits, and has long been eyed as a possible contender to fill the slot Sasse is vacating.
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Is he for Americans first, or just another RINO?
Golly gee, who didn’t see this coming??
Was all part of the plan. Sasse wanted to leave the Senate, so they defeated Trump’s guy for governor, then Rickett’s guy for governor gets the nomination, gets elected. And now Ricketts wants Sasse’s Senate seat.
Again, golly gee!
It would’ve looked bad to appoint himself so Sasse is waiting to resign until after Pillen is inaugurated.
Somewhat related, the meltdown of UF liberals on LinkedIn is fun.
A site for employment and networking where retards are eliminating half of the personnel on there…
whatever, Sasse was anti trump so it should be an improvement.
Golly gee, who didn’t see this coming??
Was all part of the plan. Sasse wanted to leave the Senate, so they defeated Trump’s guy for governor, then Rickett’s guy for governor gets the nomination, gets elected. And now Ricketts wants Sasse’s Senate seat.
Again, golly gee!
You said it!!
Just another RINO. He didn’t give a dime to Mastriano nor Kari Lake.
He isn’t that bad.
Not a Kim Reynolds, but not bad.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States [emphasis added] wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." —Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government [emphasis added]. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation, though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." —Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
From the congressional record, clarification by Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had left the care of the people with the states, not the federal government.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Exchanging one dildo for another dildo is the best description...
We have term limits here in Nebraska.
Thanks for that correction.
I don't know anything about Gov. Ricketts. But I suspect that if he gets federal senate that he will help to pass unconstitutional spending bills in the name of winning funding for his state like they all do.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Actually Pete Ricketts has been a pretty good Governor in my view and I am a big time conservative. Nebraska also has a balanced budget law. Can’t spend what you don’t have. Our property taxes suck though and Ricketts has worked tirelessly to change that.
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