So how do legislature primaries work in Nebraska.
Is it like Washington, Louisiana and California with open primaries or is it like Mississippi where they let Democrats vote in GOP primaries?
It seems it is backward in Nebraska. You get more conservative Governors/Senators(statewide) than you do conservative members of the legislature.
Ben Sasse is good.
But even Johanns and Deb Fischer I doubt would come out for a repeal of the death penalty if they had to go to voters in 2016 or 2018.
The previous governor(so-called establishment guy) vetoed tuition for illegals and the legislature did an over-ride.
Nebraska has long had the ultimate political fantasy legislature; the Unicameral. One house, and oh yeah, non-partisan. Yes, you heard that right, they believe that this perfect mythical legislature is non-partisan.
Of course, that has never really been close to reality but the state has held it up as a paragon of political perfection for years.
This override was in large part the doing of a number of newly elected “conservative” republicans who “voted their conscience” (heard that before) instead of implementing the wishes of the majority of Nebraskans to KEEP the death penalty.
One house to rule them all and representation be damned.