Sen. Bill Kintner of Papillion announced at a morning press conference Jan. 25 that he has resigned from the Legislature.<\/p>\n
Kintner said he had offered his resignation letter to Speaker Jim Scheer this morning. The letter states that his resignation is effective at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n
Kintner faced a surge of public anger this week after retweeting a comment about the recent Women\u2019s March that appeared to make light of sexual assault. During floor debate on a separate issue yesterday, more than 20 senators rose to say Kintner should resign or face expulsion due to his pattern of behavior. Lawmakers said they had received a flood of angry emails and phone calls from constituents calling for his dismissal.<\/p>\n
Last summer the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission fined Kintner $1,000 for the misuse of state property when he used a state-issued computer to engage in cybersex with a woman he met online. Kintner reported to the State Patrol that the woman tried to extort money from him to keep their exchange private.<\/p>\n
Omaha Sen. Bob Krist filed a resolution yesterday to expel Kintner from the Legislature, and lawmakers were scheduled to take up that resolution Wednesday morning. Scheer notified senators of Kintner\u2019s resignation when the Legislature convened at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
Gov. Pete Ricketts, who has repeatedly called for Kintner\u2019s resignation since last summer, issued a statement shortly after the press conference saying that Kintner did the right thing by resigning. The governor\u2019s office is accepting applications to fill the vacant seat\u00a0for\u00a0Legislative District 2 until\u00a0Jan. 31<\/span>.\u00a0The district contains\u00a0Cass County and portions of Sarpy and Otoe counties.<\/p>\n Eligible applicants must have lived in the district for at least one full year, be\u00a0registered to vote and be at least 21 years old.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sen. Bill Kintner of Papillion announced at a morning press conference Jan. 25 that he has resigned from the Legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-20431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","tag-sen-bill-kintner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Kintner1-25-17a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20431"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20442,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20431\/revisions\/20442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}