Nonpartisan Nebraska will host community meeting in Kearney

KEARNEY — Nonpartisan Nebraska will host a group assembly within the South Platte Room of the Kearney Public Library at 3 p.m. July 30.

The occasion will characteristic a presentation by Nathan Leach of Kearney on the pressing want for residents to prepare in protection of Nebraska’s historic nonpartisan unicameral state Legislature.

Nebraska has loved the advantages of a one-house nonpartisan Legislature (the one in the US) since 1937. However now partisan lawmakers have indicated a plan to repeal key historic provisions within the Legislature’s guidelines that maintain the method freed from formal celebration management comparable to using a poll vote to elect leaders within the physique, stated Leach.

”Not solely would this alteration make Nebraska’s legislative physique extra like Congress, it additionally would make it more durable for particular person lawmakers to signify and act in the very best curiosity of their constituents. It might centralize energy within the palms of the few in Lincoln and Omaha and away from the center of Nebraska,” Leach stated.

The July 30 occasion is free and open to the general public, and people wishing to take part can RSVP on-line at npnebraska.org/upcoming-events. On-line participation is obtainable.

Nonpartisan Nebraska is nonprofit devoted to holding the Nebraska Legislature nonpartisan.