NEBRASKA CITY- Janet Palmtag, the District 1 candidate at the center of intense legislative attention this week, said Wednesday she is setting the record straight after deceptive mailers were sent by her own party.

Palmtag, who is running for the Southeast Nebraska legislative seat against Sen. Julie Slama, is firing back about the mailer, which went out in the spring but is still a hot topic. The mailer sent by the Nebraska Republican Party said she sided with Lincoln liberals, atheists and radical extremists, which she says is not true and a character assassination.

She's sending out her own flyers to voters this week. One includes an apology from Dan Welch, Nebraska GOP chairman, for the party mailer. In that mailer, the party tried to pair her with Sen. Ernie Chambers, who was pictured. She says she has never met or spoken to Chambers, and he says the same.

When asked about that Wednesday, Slama said only that she remained focused on the real issues facing her district, including property tax relief, broadband expansion and COVID-19 and flood recovery, and would not talk about the flyer.

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