{"id":34055,"date":"2023-04-05T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=34055"},"modified":"2023-04-05T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:47:46","slug":"geist-to-resign-from-legislature-to-focus-on-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=34055","title":{"rendered":"Geist to resign from Legislature to focus on mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln Sen. Suzanne Geist announced her resignation from the Legislature April 5, effective at the end of day April 6.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20134\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20134\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479303369&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;95&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sengeist_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Suzanne Geist&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Suzanne Geist&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20134\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Suzanne Geist\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Suzanne Geist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Geist, who was elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020, made the announcement one day after the Lincoln mayoral primary, from which she advanced to the May 2 general election. She has served as chairperson of the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee since January of this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going all in on this race, spending full time running for mayor of Lincoln,\u201d Geist said in a video released by her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Jim Pillen is responsible for appointing an individual to fill Geist\u2019s seat. Legislative District 25 covers parts of southeast Lincoln and Lancaster County, including the city of Bennet.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible applicants must have lived in the district for one full year, be registered to vote and be at least 21 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The appointee will serve the final year of Geist\u2019s term, which ends in January 2025, and will be eligible to run for the seat in November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln Sen. Suzanne Geist announced her resignation from the Legislature April 5, effective at the end of day April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"_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":[167],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-34055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-sen-suzanne-geist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34055","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=34055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34059,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34055\/revisions\/34059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}