LINCOLN- Nebraska lawmakers made what likely was a final push Monday before Election Day to save the state’s latest “school choice” program to offset attendance costs at private schools. State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan of Elkhorn, who sponsored the original Legislative Bills 753 in 2023 and 1402 this year, joined with about 20 of her legislative colleagues to criticize a new ad from the Support Our Schools campaign, which has opposed both of Linehan’s bills.

The targeted ad, posted to the campaign’s social media four days ago, shows three men in suits, which the senators took as caricatures of themselves. The men enter a classroom, steal toy blocks from the children, break pencils, knock over dominoes, and break a house made of Legos. “The commercials are ridiculous, and they are insulting to the Legislature,” Linehan said.

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