Overview
- Gov. Jim Pillen posted surveillance showing Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh taking portraits from Capitol hallways, calling it "destructive partisanship."
- Cavanaugh said she acted to enforce Rule 4.07, which restricts displays to the first-floor rotunda.
- The portraits were part of PragerU's traveling Founders Museum exhibit that the Nebraska Capitol Commission had approved.
- Cavanaugh said she placed the pictures in her office after alerting the Nebraska State Patrol and tried to avoid damage.
- Officials reported the removed images were recovered and returned to the Capitol, and Cavanaugh disputed removing a Phillis Wheatley portrait shown in the governor's post.