{"id":3410,"date":"2011-02-17T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:43:25","slug":"bill-would-clarify-when-political-parties-can-nominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"Bill would clarify when political parties can nominate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval Feb. 17 to a bill that seeks to clarify when a political party can nominate a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Under LB368, sponsored by Bancroft Sen. Lydia Brasch, political parties would be prohibited from nominating a candidate for an office at a state post-primary convention if the party did not nominate a candidate for the office at the primary election. An exemption would be provided for new political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Parties would be able to nominate candidates at a convention in cases of a special election or a vacancy on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Brasch said the bill would ensure that political parties do not bypass the primary process by placing a candidate on a ballot when no vacancy exists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that primaries are vital to our political process,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>LB368 advanced to select file on a 37-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval Feb. 17 to a bill that seeks to clarify when a political party can nominate a<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-lydia-brasch"],"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\/3410","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=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10497,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}