{"id":78,"date":"2009-01-23T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/linux\/wordpress\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:37:50","slug":"sen-gloor-sets-a-course-for-the-unicameral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Gloor sets a course for the Unicameral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Above: Sen. Gloor enjoys his sailing hobby.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhere there\u2019s water, there\u2019s sailing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It might seem like an odd philosophy for a Nebraskan, but Sen. Mike Gloor is passionate about sailing. His office shelves are filled with sailing references and his eyes light up when speaking of his hobby of 25 years.<\/p>\n

Gloor is convinced that one can find great sailing anywhere, even in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

In fact, he says, sailboat owners are happy to rent to those from places like Nebraska for one simple reason. \u201cThey know how to deal with the wind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, however, sailing and other hobbies take a back to seat to service for the new senator.<\/p>\n

Gloor, who was born in Alliance and raised in Fullerton, credits his parents for instilling in him a commitment to community.<\/p>\n

Both parents were often busy in the evenings with school board meetings and other obligations, he said. And in spite of it meaning that sometimes he had to eat his father\u2019s cooking, he was proud of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were expected to give back,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what grown-ups do.\u201d<\/p>\n

That commitment is what brought Gloor to the Legislature, he said.<\/p>\n

As CEO of St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, he had overseen the completion of a $90 million addition and decided to retire and run for a seat in the Unicameral.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew it was time to leave,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was time to do something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gloor believes his many years as a health care administrator will add valuable experience to the Legislature. But Gloor is quick to point out that he also is interested in economic development and many other issues that come before the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to be a sole issue senator,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A wide range of interests also is evident in the variety found in Gloor\u2019s hobbies. For 14 years, the senator performed with a madrigal group in medieval costume.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might surprise people to know that I wore tights,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

And what has surprised Gloor about the Unicameral is the level of collegiality among senators.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have been over-the-top helpful,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t get treated like a freshman senator in the traditional sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gloor acknowledged the hectic pace of a new lawmaker\u2019s schedule, but said his life is well suited to the challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy children are grown and I\u2019m retired, so I can concentrate on being a full time senator,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhere there\u2019s water, there\u2019s sailing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It might seem like an odd philosophy for a Nebraskan, but Sen. Mike Gloor is passionate about sailing. His office shelves are filled with sailing references and his eyes light up when speaking of his hobby of 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21406,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[167,18],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-senator-features","tag-sen-gloor-enjoys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MeetGloor_blog2017.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21722,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/21722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}