Nepo baby Pete Ricketts is out of touch with Nebraskans. While Ricketts lives the comfortable high life thanks to his family's billions, everyday Nebraskans struggle to get by because of policies Ricketts supported. Ricketts made life harder and more expensive for Nebraska farmers, ranchers, families, and businesses by voting in favor of catastrophic tariffs as well as the never-ending war with Iran. He endangered hospitals and caused thousands to lose food assistance and healthcare in voting for the Big Beautiful Bill. And he played a large role in the proliferation of data centers across Nebraska, to the chagrin of local communities. Nebraskans are sick and tired of Ricketts's measly lip service and harmful votes.
Not even the death of a Nebraska service member blunted Pete Ricketts’s support for the disastrous war in Iran. Time and again, Ricketts voted to continue the war, even as it claimed the life of Nebraska Sergeant Noah Tietjens, jacked up gas prices across Nebraska, and pushed farmers to their breaking point with increased diesel and fertilizer costs. Despite it all, Pete Ricketts, knowing the Iran War was causing this carnage, supports continuing it.
Message: Ricketts fully embraced the disastrous Iran war, causing Nebraska families and farmers to suffer higher prices.
Pete Ricketts never saw a check he didn’t like, no matter who wrote it. He took tens of thousands of dollars in donations from documented Epstein associates without batting an eye. Then, on Capitol Hill, he voted against releasing the Epstein Files, claiming the issue “falls down below” his legislative priorities. Only after months of mounting pressure and Trump’s blessing did Ricketts vote to release the files. Despite his flip-flop late in the game, Ricketts claimed he had “long pushed” for the release of the Epstein Files. Nebraskans know better.
Message: Ricketts downplayed the Epstein file scandal while raking in cash from Epstein's buddies.
Pete Ricketts always claims to fight for Nebraska farmers and ranchers. Yet, he continues to support tariffs that hurt Nebraska farmers, families and businesses. Not only has the Ricketts-backed tariff war led to higher input costs for Nebraska farmers; it also shrunk their market, making it harder to sell crops. Beyond that, the tariffs that Ricketts keeps defending have jacked up prices across the board, stressing Nebraska families and businesses alike. Ricketts knows the tariffs hurt Nebraska, but he just doesn’t care enough to vote to stop them.
Message: By supporting crushing tariffs, Ricketts has turned his back on Nebraska farmers and ranchers.
Pete Ricketts is all in on data centers. He personally recruited Facebook to build a data center in Nebraska while he was Governor. He even implemented tax incentives for data centers, costing the state over half a billion in revenue before the incentives were axed by his successor. Despite broad opposition in Nebraska to data centers raising energy prices and eating up farmland, Ricketts is gung ho on Nebraska becoming the “Silicon Prairie.”
Message: Ricketts embraced data centers for Nebraska, even as they consumed farmland and jacked up energy prices.
Pete Ricketts wasn’t heckled and called a “F—ing traitor” by his constituents for no reason; they knew he supported the One Big Beautiful Bill that took away healthcare and food assistance for Nebraskans. Flying in the face of reality, Ricketts keeps claiming his Big Beautiful Bill didn’t cut Medicaid, while rural Nebraska hospitals struggle to stay open due to Medicaid cuts. Ricketts called the bill a “Once-in-a-generation opportunity” while tens of thousands of vulnerable Nebraskans lost their Medicaid and SNAP benefits. What’s more, the state was slated to lose nearly half a billion in tax revenue over the next few years due to Ricketts’s Big Beautiful Bill. Nebraskans are rightfully fed up with his antics.
Message: Ricketts embraced the One Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed vital healthcare and food benefits for thousands of Nebraskans.
Pete Ricketts claims he is sympathetic to the financial plight of Nebraska farmers, who are currently facing higher fertilizer costs due to the war in Iran. He even touted a Department of Justice probe investigating anti-competitive practices in the fertilizer industry. Yet, in the past three years, Ricketts has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in donations from the very fertilizer companies currently under DOJ investigation for price-fixing.
Message: Ricketts talks a big game about helping farmers, but when Big Ag sends a check, vulnerable Nebraska farmers fall by the wayside.
Ricketts Supported The Disastrous War With Iran
Ricketts Backed Devastating Trade Wars
Ricketts Supported Deeply Unpopular Data Centers
Ricketts Backed Cuts To Healthcare And Food Assistance For Nebraskans
Ricketts Took Money From Fertilizer Companies Under Investigation For Price Fixing