Ryan Hoffman
Flatwater Free Press
A Nebraska family has plowed more than $1.6 million into the Lincoln mayor’s race, an unprecedented sum and latest burst in a multi-year deluge that, at the federal level, rivals the political spending by a famed Las Vegas casino magnate and a Silicon Valley titan.
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