(Nebraska) Backers raise nearly $3 million for Medicaid expansion vote

[Omaha Steve]

By Henry J. Cordes / World-Herald staff writer Oct 22, 2018

Backers of a ballot issue expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income Nebraskans have raised nearly $3 million, dwarfing the minimal spending of opponents.

The Insure the Good Life campaign as of Oct. 2 reported raising $1.7 million for the Nov. 6 ballot measure that would provide health insurance coverage for more than 90,000 low-income Nebraskans, most of them among the working poor.

But Adam Morfeld, a state senator from Lincoln who is serving as a paid consultant for the campaign, said the organization has since collected an additional $1.1 million in contributions.

The report last week detailing the $1.7 million in contributions indicated more than two-thirds — some $1.2 million — came from the Fairness Project, a national organization that supports efforts to take issues of economic fairness directly to voters.

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