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Nebraska Legislature Election 2014
CitizenClark:
--- Quote from: AAllen on October 14, 2014, 01:08:09 PM ---Something that for me has been a major consideration in who to endorse/support this year has been who (by ideological position not name) they would support to the Committee on Committee's and the Executive Committee. These two committees control the odds of our bills seeing the floor. It would be nice to have a Judiciary Committee that agreed with us more than not, but at least a fair hearing where we didn't know before the hearing started the majority would be against us would be nice. The Executive Committee is who assigns bills to committee's, bills like LB857 should have gone to the Government and Military affairs committee where it would have made it to the floor for debate rather than Ashford not bringing the bill up for a vote in Executive Committee until the session was over.
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For the sake of clarity, it should be noted that the Executive Committee references the bills, but generally speaking it does not vote on their substance (there are some exceptions). In this case, the issue is not that the Exec Comm didn't do their job, but that Ashford didn't bring the bill up for a vote in a Judiciary Committee _executive session_ until it was too late in the legislative session to make the agenda.
I didn't want anyone to be confused by the typo above.
AAllen:
Thanks for the clarification there CitizenClark they reference the bills to the Committees and in the example it was the Judiciary Committee that failed to have a timely vote. The issue with the make up of the Executive Committee is where they place bills, bills that the Liberal Minority of the Legislature have issues with go to committees that have a tendency to sit on the bills and not send them to the full Legislature for debate.
jthhapkido, thanks for your comments. I try very hard to put away any personal biases and do the best possible research and balancing of the issues I can in making the endorsements for the PAF. Sometimes those decisions are difficult because having spent time working with and talking to some of the Senators and Candidates there are personal relationships and friendships that get built, setting those aside and being an unbiased representative for all the NFOA's members is the goal.
depserv:
We should all do what we can to get those inclined toward patriotism out to vote. It's like a column of British regulars are marching through our area and we need to go rally the militia to fight them. Numbers are what count. Many loyal Americans have become demoralized and would rather sit home. The last time they did that Obama got elected to a second term, so I like to ask them how their protest by not voting is working out for them.
If I remember right G&A magazine made a list of how gun friendly each state government is, based on each state's laws, and Nebraska was in the bottom half. This sad situation could be improved by getting a greater number of loyal Americans into the legislature. This is the message we need to get out to patriots. If they need to be called and reminded or given a ride or whatever we should do it. You can be sure the enemy will. Also, remind patriots that once you get on the absentee ballot list they will send you one each time and you do it all from home. Very easy, and no excuse not to. We do not need to concede control of our state to the enemy of freedom.
Veto Oligarchy and Treason to the End (VOTE)!
Dtrain323i:
well its looking like Lee Terry is out. You can probably chalk that up to the 5% of the vote that Steve Laird got.
CitizenClark:
--- Quote from: Dtrain323i on November 04, 2014, 11:28:48 PM ---well its looking like Lee Terry is out. You can probably chalk that up to the 5% of the vote that Steve Laird got.
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Or, alternatively, you could consider that candidates ought to work to earn the votes they get. If Lee Terry had been more of a friend to liberty, he might have gotten those votes. Instead they went to a protest candidate. That is what happens when a mediocre candidate runs in a close contest.
But FWIW, there is no persuasive evidence that Libertarian Party candidates pull more from the right than the left. Libertarianism contains something to offend everyone (who isn't a libertarian, that is): anti-prohibitionism and social liberty to anger the Right, and free markets and personal responsibility to drive the Left up the wall.
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