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Senator Lou Ann Linehan of Omaha, the sponsor, introduced the resolution to the Redistricting Committee…
During the hearing, Spike Eickholt with ACLU Nebraska says they support the resolution and relayed a poll they had done on redistricting…
Mark McHargue, President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, representing an ag and rural coalition says they oppose the resolution in its current form because it would further dilute rural districts..
The resolution passed onto the floor for debate. The process will require a special session later this year to approve the new maps. Tags:
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(The Center Square) â A nonprofit group has formed in Nebraska to oppose proposed new federal tax increases, which members say would hurt farms and other businesses.
âAs we begin to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, America and Nebraska especially are well-positioned to achieve economic growth,â the group Nebraskans for Tax Truth says on its website. âHowever, current Washington, D.C. tax proposals threaten to stop this progress in its tracks, saddling our agricultural producers and job creators with additional burdens just as recovery is in sight.â
The Nebraska Farm Bureau is one of the groups joining the anti-tax hike coalition.
It didn t take long for the Legislature s redistricting committee to split into partisan division.
During an executive session filled with tension, the committee Tuesday removed a guideline it had accepted earlier to attempt to preserve the core of current legislative districts in reaching its redistricting decisions.
The committee action came five hours after the Nebraska Farm Bureau had urged the committee to eliminate that guiding principle in devising its proposal to redistrict the 49-member Legislature, arguing that senators need to preserve as many rural districts as they can.
Rural districts generally result in conservative Republican members of the nonpartisan Legislature.