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Nebraska’s Primary is Tuesday, May 11 – Are You Registered and Informed?

Are you registered to vote?

We hope to have the time to add additional helpful information here regarding the upcoming Primary on Tuesday, May 11, but for now, we’d like to provide information about the last minute ability to register at several locations in Lancaster County IN PERSON – THROUGH MAY 3.

The Lancaster County Election Commissioner has a list of those locations HERE.

The Election Commissioner’s website has a great deal of information about the important dates this year, for example, so it’s definitely worth a look.

You could help impact the outcome by, of course, voting yourself, but why not consider doing a bit of “mission work” and encouraging others who you may know that are for limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, and state sovereignty? Let them know they have through Monday to get registered.

Are you informed?

While we’ve often been irritated by the Lincoln Journal Star, when they do a decent or even a good job, we won’t have any problem saying so. There have been Q & A’s with candidates for all sorts of Nebraska races appearing regularly for the past couple of weeks. If you visit THIS link, you can see the archive of them all, listed as Voter’s Guides. The questions are straight forward, and the candidates’ answers listed in full. They are informative.

Another issue which the Lincoln Journal Star has been providing a lot of coverage about is the City of Lincoln Arena bond issue. Coverage by Deena Winter in particular has been very thorough and truth-seeking. If reviewing the Voter’s Guides, it is worth a look at these articles if you live in Lincoln. You can search with “arena” or Winter’s name. LJS has also been printing a wide variety of Letters to the Editor on the subject, including THIS one by a UNL student which is very well done and on point.

TAKING IT FURTHER

Making sure one is registered and informed on voting are of course, very important, and if we could just get more folks to follow through on those activities, we may not be in so much trouble as a country. But, considering the depth of our problems, it is not enough. We need more people involved beyond this.

If you’re interested in helping with one of our efforts to impact the upcoming election, click HERE.

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts