Nebraska's Junior Senator Ben Sasse has formally resigned from his role, effective yesterday.
Sasse will be leaving Washington to take on the role of president of the University of Florida, returning to a career in higher education.
Sasse was announced as a search committee's finalist for the role last fall. Droves of students at the University of Florida protested the news due to Sasse's previous statements about members of the LGBTQ community.
Before his election to the U.S. Senate, Sasse was the President of Midland University from October 2009 to December 2014.
Sasse was first elected to the Senate in 2014 and reelected in 2020.
In his farewell address last week, Sasse noted that he “never planned to spend a lifetime in Washington.” He added:
“That's not what our founders envisioned for the people they would send to the federal city. They envisioned, rather, congressmen, senators, and presidents who thought of DC as a temporary stay. Washington is a place to do a good bit of neighbor loving work, but then to go back home to the more permanent work of life and flesh and blood whole communities.”
Nebraska's newly elected governor Jim Pillen (R), will be tasked with appointing Sasse's replacement.
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Meh…….yawn.
Good go in shame!
One less haterful, useless loser in the party.
Good riddance! If this POS is a president Trump (yes he is my president) hater then we sure do not need him in government and certainly not teaching numb skulls to hate patriots!!
Just as long as Nuremberg 2.0 has all their addresses.
It sounds like Sasse’s departure and replacement appointed by a Repub governor will be an improvement of having a college teacher/administrator in the office. “Educators” tend to be massively socialist.