Rick Beard and Lt. Governor nominee, Ruby Barnes
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We need new leadership in Nebraska that listens to the people, not special interest groups and corporate donors. We need a governor that pushes the will of your vote and the well being of your community, not a bought and paid for agenda. I love Nebraska and envision what the Good Life could actually be with proper governance and policy by the people and for the people.
Respecting the intelligence, awareness, and sensibility of our adult citizens is the bottom rung of honest cannabis legislation. We know what we want and we voted for it. We have an anti-cannabis governor defying the will of the citizens while denying a tried and proven business model that creates jobs and heavy profits. More than anything, in order to implement solution based policy through the will of the voters, we need to remove corporate and PAC money from our elections and from funneling to our state lawmakers. There is a direct pathway to this solution through "The Montana Plan I-94" legislation. We will sign a Constitutional Ballot Amendment with 10% of voter signatures (as opposed to a 7% signature Ballot Initiative), vote on it in November 2028, and eliminate much of the paid resistance to our voted in laws and policies. |
Lower the Levies With Cannabis RevenueOur property taxes are out of control with no relief in sight. If we estimate future Nebraska cannabis sales, calculating population differences to Colorado, Nebraska could generate $300,000,000 in yearly state cannabis revenue and receive around $93,000,000 in tax revenue. We'll fix the roads and fund our schools to stop these higher-than-Cali property taxes. Other politicians always talk about bringing new industry to Nebraska, we will actually do it. Our state is in a serious financial crisis and can not afford to dismiss businesses that create massive new revenue for Nebraska.
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Corrupt UnicameralOur elected representatives repetitively dismantle voter approved legislative efforts that negatively affect the Good Life. Voters passed Initiative 437 and 438 in 2024 with a 71% vote to legalize medical cannabis and create a regulatory framework for licenses. The state senate killed it by refusing to pass LB677. They signed "emergency rules" prohibiting raw cannabis flower, smoking, vaping, and gummies....only permitting processed pills and tinctures. Did you know that!!? We need to fire the Medical Cannabis Commission and revoke their changes to our voter approved legislation. Then we can start a functioning system.
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We need an air horn and a VETO stamp to protect our votes from getting changed to policy we didn't vote for. They want to lower the minimum wage of our 14-16 year old child workforce from $15 an hour to $13.50......Wow......Can 14 year-olds vote for or negotiate their employee rights?? They killed initiative 436, our voter approved sick leave increases for young workers, seasonal, and temporary workers, while removing their rights to sue for employer violations. It's unbelievable. They block our medical cannabis, dilute our voter approved minimum wage increases, and drastically delay our Medicaid expansion.
This focus on denying basic needs like medicine, fair pay, and healthcare to Nebraskans who need it has to end now. |
Cannabis compared.... numbers to considerThere's a lot of misinformation about the alleged dangers of cannabis. Let's compare some numbers and stop this ridiculous propaganda. These are Nebraska specific numbers except for the last one--That's worldwide cannabis related deaths ever, in all of recorded history.
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