LINCOLN- The GOP race for governor has a new player and this one isn’t looking for votes but is telling the top three campaigns to, in effect, pull some key commercials.

The player is the University of Nebraska which has sent 2-page, legal-letters to the Herbster, Lindstrom and Pillen forces “respectfully” asking them to keep their hands off NU’s logos and other “marks” arguing that all have used the copyrighted materials in an “unauthorized” manner.

At least one of the three, Charles Herbster’s campaign, is fighting back trying to keep its recent TV attack against Pillen, an NU Regent, alive. The ad accuses Pillen of supporting critical race theory—charges Pillen denies.

According to the NU letter: “The University has recently become aware of advertisements on behalf of your campaign that includes the use of University Marks. There is also a recent ad challenging Jim Pillen’s stance on critical race theory, which specifically mentions the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and has been released on television. In addition to the requirement that the University remain neutral in the matter of politics, the University also has a right and obligation to prohibit unauthorized uses of its marks.”

Herbster’s campaign complains NU is trying to protect one of its own, telling NCN, “The University does not want to be exposed in its support of Critical Race Theory and all the other terrible liberal policies that Jim Pillen has supported.”

At the same time though a Pillen ad is being challenged by NU as well.

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