Nick Batter

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Trump and Harris Vargas, Bacon Fisher Osborne. These people have
said so many mean things about each other this election season.
We don't like any of them. Made us believe that
each is sinister in their motives, deceitful in their messages,
and kill puppies. So I went looking for a candidate
who I'm pretty sure isn't Cruela Deville's evil twin brother,

(00:22):
a candidate not doing this for the power or the prestige,
certainly not the money, and I found one in north
Omaha Unicameral District thirteen. Now, I didn't know Nick Batter
from Nick Nolty until the day after the primary when Batter,
a political newborn, won the four way primary race to
replace term limited Justin Wayne with thirty eight percent of

(00:44):
the vote. That's a lot read that he was chief
counsel for Hawkins, big boy job with a monster Omaha
construction firm. When looking for a little more about Nick
Batter and discovered a lot more. Born to a single
mom who got knocked up at seventeen, Nick's dad, his
dad booked they have no relationship. Mom was such a mess.

(01:05):
His aging grandparents were made his legal guardians, but in
and out of addictions and reckless behavior. Mom stayed in
the picture, so in his first twelve years, there were
nights when the lights didn't come on, the fridge was empty,
his bed the back seat. At thirteen, Mom and Nick
packed up for California. No family, no friends, no job,

(01:27):
no money, just some cool views of the Pacific Ocean
and a lot of uncertainty. Many a teenager do not
survive that journey. Until he was out of high school,
Nick Batter lived on public assistance, free and reduced lunch
food stamps. Somehow he managed to fight through those had
winds to finish first in his class in high school

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while working after school and taking classes in a nearby
community college. From there, he got a little lucky Harvard University.
The Harvard changed its ways, stopped to look at justin
applicant's credentials and started taking kids based on their capabilities.
With his grades and his SAT score, full ride finished

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first in his class at Harvard. That's two lifetimes of
achievement by age twenty two. Done right, Nick was just
warming up. While in college. He was moved by the
suffering of Sri Lankans after the two thousand and four
Indian Ocean tsunami. He volunteered during summers and spring and
winter breaks. He helped rebuild schools and hospitals there. Civil

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war broke out while all the other big humanitarian outfits fled,
Nick stayed, even under bombardment and angry mobs. An empty
artillery shell that blew up really close one time sits
on his office shelf. What do you have on your
office shelf? Out of the Ivy League, he joined the
Army not just to fight, but to fix. He went

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through basic training in that officer's school eight years, primarily
as an engineer, helping rebuild countries destroyed by war. Should
have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, wasn't. Maybe God
had another plan for Nick Batter use the GI bill
to get through law school. So now we're up to

(03:17):
three lifetimes before age thirty five, and he's still just
getting started. So let's see with that resume. Nick's looking
at gigs and the biggest law firms in the country, DC, Chicago,
New York, Boston. He chose Florence, the Florence of North Omaha,
the old neighborhood, had a lot to give back, and

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now he is. There is a good chance based on
the issues I would never vote for. Nick Batter says
he's an independent, nonpartisan, but doesn't believe in school choice,
thinks abortions should be easier to get, legalize recreational marijuana,
won't commit on transgender rights or protecting girls in sports,
but he's crazy about lowering property taxes. His political heroes

(04:01):
are Nebraska populist George Norris, who routinely bucked the party line,
and Dwight Eisenhower, an army guy who, as President midwife
did the giant infrastructure plan that built, among other things,
the transformative interstate highway system. He's had nothing and made
his way into something, and that's his message. Government can

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and should help, but won't do it for you. You
get the idea. Nick Batter is his own man, his
own thinker, thinks everybody has something good to say and
then listens to them. What a switch