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Hard Compromise for Redistricting

Hard Compromise for Redistricting

Senator Tom Briese Photo: WNAX


The Nebraska legislature finished a two-week special session Thursday by approving all legislative and Congressional redistricting maps.

Senator Tom Briese of Boone, a member of the redistricting committee, says it was a hard compromise….

Briese says the final result will be good for Nebraska voters…

Briese says he tried to stand for rural Nebraska, but they have to respect the numbers….

Briese’s District 41 will lose two counties from the current make up but will gain three under the reorganization.

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