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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announces during a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, May 15, 2017, which parts of the state budget he will approve or veto. Gov. Ricketts previously criticized the Legislature's budget as a "gimmick" and insisted on deeper cuts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announces during a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, May 15, 2017, which parts of the state budget he will approve or veto. Gov. Ricketts previously criticized the Legislature's budget as a "gimmick" and insisted on deeper cuts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts points as he announces during a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, May 15, 2017, which parts of the state budget he will approve or veto. Gov. Ricketts previously criticized the Legislature's budget as a "gimmick" and insisted on deeper cuts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, right, stands with State Budget Administrator Gerry Oligmueller, as he announces during a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, May 15, 2017, which parts of the state budget he will approve or veto. Gov. Ricketts previously criticized the Legislature's budget as a "gimmick" and insisted on deeper cuts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announces during a news conference in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, May 15, 2017, which parts of the state budget he will approve or veto. Gov. Ricketts previously criticized the Legislature's budget as a "gimmick" and insisted on deeper cuts. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts speaks in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at a news conference about his plan to cut the states' top income tax rate . Small business owners from around the state gathered with Ricketts at the Capitol to tout the measure, which would lower the top rate from its current 6.84 percent to 5.99 percent over eight years. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts speaks in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at a news conference about his plan to cut the state's top income tax rate . Small business owners from around the state gathered with Ricketts at the Capitol to tout the measure, which would lower the top rate from its current 6.84 percent to 5.99 percent over eight years. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Neb. state Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha speaks in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, May 27, 2015, during debate on overriding Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a death penalty repeal bill, in a vote that would make it the first traditionally conservative state to abolish capital punishment in more than four decades. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has threatened to veto a bill proposed before the state legislature in Lincoln that would abolish the use of capital punishment in the Cornhusker State, which hasn't executed a prisoner since 1997. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this photo from June 2, 2014, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Ricketts speaks in Lincoln, Neb. Ricketts and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Chuck Hassebrook remain sharply divided over whether Nebraska should continue to deny driver's licenses for workers in the country illegally, as well as for young immigrants who were allowed to stay under an Obama administration initiative. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Ricketts speaks in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, May 13, 2014, with his wife Susanne at his side, after winning his party's primary election. A crowd of Republican candidates jockeyed to succeed Nebraska's outgoing governor and senior U.S. senator in a busy primary election where voters also were set to select nominees for three other vacant offices. (AP Photo)