LINCOLN - Friday was Senator Ernie Chambers’ 83rd birthday. It may be the last one he spends as a state senator, Nebraska’s longest-serving one, as his term expires in January. Senator Chambers received a birthday card from Governor Pete Ricketts. However, he did not open it, and he explained why.

“Governor Ricketts,” he wrote, “I realize that card sending is merely a pro forma exercise. But due to the disrespect you consistently maintain (exemplified by the RACIST CAMPAIGN flyer you exuberantly endorsed in the Slama campaign) toward me, is so personally disgusting that I find this card to be the crowning insult from a deep-dyed RACIST.” And he signed his name.

Ricketts’ spokesman, Taylor Gage, said about Chambers’ reaction to the card: “The birthday cards are a courtesy the governor does for state senators, their wives and fellow governors.”

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