Hi friend,
I know it's Friday afternoon, but before you log off for the weekend, I wanted to share a story from my time growing up on my family’s farm that taught me everything I know about hard work and commitment.
For three or four years, my family and I worked alongside my father for his onion business. That meant planting, weeding, and harvesting 100,000 onions by hand to be sold to the plant in North Bend. We planted onions because we were struggling to make ends meet with just the hogs. Nebraskans will always find a path forward.
You learn a few things standing in a Nebraska field for hours, planting and weeding by hand. You learn grit, responsibility, and the fundamental truth that getting the job done right requires hard work, not distraction.
Today, those lessons tell me our state leadership is focused on the wrong things.
We are watching Governor Pillen get distracted by divisive political noise while we fall behind on the fundamentals that actually matter: reliable infrastructure, strong local economies, and good schools.
I’m exploring a run for Governor to bring that farm-taught hard work and common sense back to Lincoln. I’ve proven I can work across the aisle to deliver solutions, not division.
Will you chip in $25, $50, or whatever you can afford today to help us hire our first staff and kick off our statewide listening tour next weekend?
Let’s get back to work.
With gratitude,
Lynne Walz | 