Tomorrow I drive to Lincoln. This is a short update, not a new plan — what's changed since I published my questions and my plea, what hasn't, and one thing I found while working on a completely unrelated part of this site that turned out not to be unrelated at all.
Two posts already say what I'm asking and why: four questions, published before I could talk myself into softer ones, and a plea and a poem about the one number I actually want. Neither needs rewriting. This post is just today's loose ends, closed or left honestly open.
| Meeting | Tomorrow, September 14, 1:00–3:00 PM, 301 Centennial Mall South, Lincoln |
| Public comment | Yes, no advance sign-up — unchanged since the Commission's 09-10 email |
| Sen. Cavanaugh | No reply yet, and that's fine |
| Manufacturing license window | Closes tomorrow, 11:59 PM — a few hours after the meeting ends |
Cavanaugh's office got a heads-up on 09-11 that Kauth's statement was published and that our own timeline got corrected because of it — a courtesy, not a second ask. His silence since then isn't a finding. The standing rule holds: if nothing arrives by September 30, one phone call, no second email.
This afternoon I was reading the Secretary of State's actual certified candidate list for a completely different reason — checking this site's own outreach records against it, nothing to do with cannabis. Two names on it stopped me anyway.
Rick Beard, the Legal Marijuana NOW nominee for Governor, is running on a state-run medical cannabis program as his lead issue — partly, by his own account, to fund property tax relief. Mike Marvin, the same party's nominee for U.S. Senate, built his campaign the same way, then suspended it in August for health reasons and endorsed Dan Osborn. He's still certified and on the ballot; Nebraska law gave him no path to take his name off once he'd decided to step back. I wrote up how that actually works, as its own page, because most voters have never had a reason to learn it: When Does a Candidate Actually Leave a Race?
None of that changes anything I'm asking the Commission tomorrow, and I'm not naming either man in the room. It's just worth saying plainly: I'm not the only person in this state who thinks this issue matters enough to show up for. Two people put their name on a ballot over it. I'm putting three minutes and a public comment card on it instead.
Four questions, one plea. Whether anyone's counting how many Nebraskans hold a valid recommendation is still the thing I actually want an answer to — not a verdict, a count, or an honest admission that nobody's keeping one. Everything else in this post is context, not a rewrite.
Tomorrow's post comes after the meeting, not before. Same rule as the last two: the agenda is the citation, exact quotes get a name attached, and my notes are a pointer until the Commission's own minutes go up and replace them.