Ricketts called for property and income tax reformat his state of the state address in lincoln. The governor outlined his Budget Priorities for the state. This is 30 minutes. Thank you. President , speaker, member of the 105th legislature, tribal chairmen, distinguished guests, friends, fellow nebraskans, and of course our first lady my lovely wife, suzanne. Good morning. [ applause ] now, before we get started here today, i understand that we have somebody who has a birthday. Kitty, its your 70th birthday . Is that right . Woo woo give her a round of applause. [ applause ] i will spare you my rendition of happy birthday. Everybody is happy about that, too. Well, congratulations on the commencement of the 105th Nebraska Legislature. I want to thank each and every one of you for your willingness to serve our fellow citizens. I also want to highlight that you are beginning a historic year. The 150th of our statehood, which we will celebrate on march 1st. I am honored to be with you here
Republican Pete Ricketts and Democrat Chuck hassebrook. We welcome those joining us on adt television and radio where they can a. G. Web site and also Nebraska Broadcasters Association Member stations carrying us today and welcome to those joining us across the nation on cspan2. We are live tweeting this debate. Use the hashtag and e. T. Debate on twitter to follow us and you can give us your comments during and after the debate on our Facebook Page. For the next hour the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists and each other. The rules are pretty simple. Each candidate will have 90 seconds to respond to the question and if warranted me give a 30second rebuttal. Tonights debate is taking place before a live studio audience. We have asked the audience to refrain from a pausing or cheering because it will only take semifrom the candidates. Before we meet the candidates lets introduce the panel of journalists who will be asking the questions tonight. Fred knapp of net new
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