Nebraska Dave West

In the scope of my job I often need to call state agencies. Wyoming is always a pleasure. The employees are knowledgeable, informal and always super helpful. Nebraska is a disaster. Island of broken toys. Half of the time the employee barely speaks English. Missing records...

Dear Nebraska, Now that the election is over it’s time for @jim_pillen, @NEGOP, and @nedemocratic to get their act together and legislate for everyone. As a former smaller towner that now lives in Lincoln, I feel like in can appropriately bridge this gap. Western NE isn’t a bunch of racist hicks and Omaha and Lincoln aren’t a bunch of blue-hair libtards. But you are going to need to make tough choices and look past a two year cycle to create lasting prosperity for all Nebraskans. 1. Need energy reform. Allow Cooper Nuclear to add two more reactors. This is long term but will provide a good base-load and the infrastructure and personal are already there. Those are good-paying jobs. 2. In the short term, you need to incentivize businesses in the industrial areas to install solar panels on their roofs and allow them to sell back at a decent power any excess energy. Homeowners don’t have the money to do this but with the proper incentives this could lower the electrical pricing for all customers by increasing supply and nobody is going to say they care about it in the industrial parks. But you have to make it worth it to the business invest. This creates jobs and sales tax revenue. My building alone could probably produce 100,000 kWh/yr enough for 11 homes if we aren’t using the energy, but that just leaves more baseload for everyone else. You are going to have to force stuff through LES and OPPD and reduce the regulations to get this done. 3. Figure out how to get a high tech oil refinery built in Nebraska. Gas and diesel are not going away and we sit near major pipelines. It doesn’t matter if oil is 70-100 a barrel if there isn’t enough refining capacity (which there isn’t). This world runs on oil whether you like it or not. That’s just reality Also, combines and tractors are probably never going to be electric so we will always need diesel, but the renewable energy stuff from above should appease the left side of the aisle. 4. We need more data centers after we boost our electrical supply. It’s a good source of tax revenue, the water fears are overblown (they use less then a golf course does) and they create good construction jobs and but fewer long-term jobs. By all means, put them out west. 5. Do something to help rebuild the cattle herds and allow it to be profitable. Reduce regulations so smaller meat processors can compete with the large ones to create market competition. Allow someone to go in a use the Lexington plant to help our farmers and ranchers. This will take a few years to build the herds back up, but it will bring food down in the long run. 6. Build up and promote the small rural towns and don’t demonize them. To all the people in Omaha and Lincoln. Being educated does not mean you are intelligent. They are nicest people you ever know and just want to be left alone. If my wife wouldn’t have to be in Lincoln for her job, we would certainly move away from here. 7. Make the education system in NE held accountable for the money we give it. There are too many failing schools and it isn’t a money thing. It’s an incentive thing. Teachers should be paid more but there is probably too much administrative bloat and you can’t fire bad teachers, teachers who don’t care, or who push an ideology because of the teacher unions. I had a good public school upbringing. I can tell you I wouldn’t and don’t send my kids to public school now. There is zero discipline in public schools and a few idiots can ruin the learning experience for everyone. Building out and investing to make energy cheaper and make it easier to run businesses will help expand the tax base to share our high tax load and hopefully decrease it long term, but raising taxes right now is the wrong move. Tighten the belt a bit and build for the future. We as Nebraskans can and will do this. We don’t shy away from the hard work. @BlakeAspenNE. @janekleeb You both seem to have some reach. Let’s put this out there and do what’s best.

Sounding like Uncle Rico! Enough of the past. Dwelling on it fixes nothing. None of them woulda survived today's transfer world. This isn't all about coaching it's about the incompetence in the powers of the Nebraska athletic department that continuously chooses these coaches.

Nebraska allows anyone to drop off completed mail ballots for voters. Groups doing GOTV and voter access work here include Civic Nebraska, Ballot Buddies, ACLU of Nebraska, and Nebraska Appleseed. AG Hilgers is suing over foreign money flowing into Nebraska ballot initiatives through national networks and local nonprofits. No major proven ballot-harvesting fraud cases yet, but groups tied to that foreign-funding investigation should not be collecting completed ballots. Nebraska should ban unrestricted third-party collection of completed ballots.

Maybe the problem is above coaching…

@osbornforne it’s been 3 days since we heard Dan Osborn tell a lie, disparage rural Nebraskans or claim to be an Independent. Wonder if he’s going to get a job or continue to grift off billionaires. Probably have to throw this on repeat.

Want to explain things to Americans, Zelenskyy? Explain why you have torture chambers all over Ukraine where you bring kidnapped 'recruits', rape them, torture them, sell off their organs, and then ransom back what is left of them to their families. Then just STFU, SHITBAG.

But we flipped the State Board of Education, maintained a three-fifths majority in the Unicameral, and didn’t lose a single statewide executive office. Thanks for the pep talk. We’ll take NE-02 back, just like we did in 2016.

The lesson we learned is swing voters want immediate results, and don’t have the patience to take on projects that will take time to set up. Bad part about how our system is set up is it swings so violently every 2 years

OPD has been soft on crime for years, even under stothert. At least we had the moderate sheriff to offset it slightly. Now we have a liberal mayor, OPD, sheriff, and DC Attorney. So the full spectrum of law enforcement is liberal in omaha now. This town will be getting so much worse. To be honest, moving out of Omaha may be my solution, especially if things don’t turn around politically by 2028.

Before today.. I would have voted for Vice President Vance. After what he wrote, that’s a no from me dog. This is just my personal opinion.

This was the warning. NE-02 proved it. We treated the affordability crisis like a temporary oil spike instead of a structural problem for the next generation. Young people aren’t locked out of first jobs and first apartments because of Iran headlines. They’re locked out because the labor market and housing supply have been distorted for years, and we refused to make that the argument. Bacon never closed the gap with younger voters. Harding inherited it. National messaging never seized control of the Iran narrative, and the top-down failure compounded it. The grassroots ground game was excellent and Nebraska held up against heavy outside money (thank you CD3). That part was legitimately strong. Everything else still needs fixing: never leave races uncontested, stop relying on donor money and DC scripts, and build actual coordination between the state party, county parties, and local infrastructure before 2028. Find talent, give them room to operate, and collaborate. If we won’t fight for the generation that feels shut out of the economy, we don’t get to complain when someone else owns the issue.

How did @RepDonBacon help Americans & the GOP? ❌️Using endless time on CNN & MS NOW to support the President and party? ❌️Paying attention to his Nebraska constituents rather than Europe or Israel? ❌️Create jobs for Americans ❌️Access to free markets for US ✅️Quitting

The only things that need checked are the Red-Green Alliance, and the Democrat Party. Even with all the leaks……wild!

Head of Zelensky office of president admits that there are many such illegal secret prisons in Ukraine after arriving to secret prison of neo-Nazi-led Azov corps of National Guard of Ukraine to quell protests. Deserters were illegally imprisoned & tortured in this secret Azov prison near Kyiv.