LINCOLN — There is conflict brewing within the Nebraska GOP.
The old guard and the new guard haven’t always seen eye to eye and current leadership thinks that has moved beyond hard feelings.
“They attack the character of our county chairs, they attack the volunteers, they even attack the individuals that are at the national apparatus,” said current GOP Chairman Eric Underwood.
Underwood believes those remnants of the old NEGOP, ousted by he and his supporters in a party takeover, are looking to regain their place at the head of the party by organizing their own groups that Underwood has described as a “Shadow GOP”.
The battle over power, he says, began soon after he took over in July of 2022 after the NEGOP headquarter was broken into and numerous documents were taken.
He said many of those documents, especially concerning other Republicans, were never returned.
“A lot of it …