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Let me be clear I am not promoting here, I am asking for opinions. I just found out about this guy today and am not affiliated in any way.

Mark Cohen is an independent running for congress in district 03. What do you all think? From what I can tell, his ideals run quite similar to Dan Osborn's, which I think we *desperately* need. He also still lives in Nebraska and seems to be very much for the working Nebraskan. Our current congressman for this district barely acknowledges us. Opinions?

I had an idea for a ballot initiative. The idea was to make the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness unable to be denied by the state or other sections of the Nebraska Constitution. The exact amendment would simply make it so that other sections of the Nebraska Constitution are repealed if they conflict with Article I Section 1, and that the State cannot deny said rights unless they are needed to secure another's rights, tiered based off of order of appearance. I do not know if it is possible to fit all of these into a single initiative, but the end result would be the gay marriage ban being repealed due to denying marriage liberty, and it would effectively repeal the death penalty, as it would never be needed to secure another's life. It also wouldn't affect the common good regulation standard of the right to bear arms, hence why it isn't included.