Nebraska Sen. Ricketts donates $500k to anti-abortion ballot campaign

The conservative effort to put an abortion ban on the ballot in Nebraska has been bankrolled entirely to date by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.). Ricketts donated $500,000 cash on March 26 to the group Protect Women and Children, according to its campaign finance report filed with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. The group reported no other donations. “Nebraska’s commonsense abortion limits reflect our state’s strong culture of life. I support the Protect Women and Children ballot initiative because it protects Nebraska values and is a contrast to the extreme...