Current Position: Veterinarian and Regent
Affiliation: Republican

Pillen is a former member of the Nebraska State Board of Regents and its former chair from 1975 to 1978, Pillen was a defensive back for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team under Tom Osborne. He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

He earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Pillen is a practicing veterinarian and also works as chair of Pillen Family Farms The business, which acquired DNA Genetics in 2003.

Governor Pete Ricketts was re-elected to a second term in 2018 with 59% of the vote. He will be term-limited by the Nebraska Constitution in 2022 and cannot seek re-election for a third consecutive term.

In the Republican primary, a variety of candidates sought to succeed Ricketts, including state senator Brett Lindstrom,[ UNL Board of Regents member Jim Pillen, business executive Charles Herbster, and former Douglas County GOP chair Theresa Thibodeau. Although Herbster received the endorsement of former President Trump, he came in second to Pillen, who won the Republican nomination with a little over a third of the vote. Pillen’s running mate is Joseph P. Kelly, a former U.S. Attorney.

State senator Carol Blood is running as the Democratic nominee. Her running mate is former state senator Al Davis.Also running is the Libertarian nominee Scott Zimmerman, a businessman and comedian.

Source: Wikipedia

Current Position: State Senator of District 3 since 2016
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2023 Governor

Carol Blood (née Vacek, born March 5, 1961) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. In 2016, she was elected to represent District 3 in Sarpy County in the Nebraska Legislature with 51.56% of the vote. In 2020 she was re-elected with 50.4% of the vote.

She is the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Nebraska gubernatorial election. Blood is a member of the Democratic Party, though elections to the Nebraska Legislature are officially nonpartisan.

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