Oh! How could I forget, speaking of “showing” faces during debate, Pillen refused to debate his opponent, Carol Blood. His string-puller Pete Ricketts probably told him not to, because he would have lost the debate and Blood wouldn’t have appointed Petey to take over the senate seat for Sasse when he left to grift at the University of Florida.
#Nebraska is quite the good ol’ boys state. IOKIYAR
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