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Exclusive: Lt. Governor’s Wife Files for Divorce

By   /   July 20, 2012  /   9 Comments

The 2014 race for governor just got a bit more interesting.

Nebraska Watchdog has learned that the early frontrunner in the race, 52-year-old Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy, is being divorced.

Sheehy’s wife filed for divorce in Adams County District Court in Hastings Wednesday.

According to court records examined by Nebraska Watchdog, Connie Sheehy says the couple’s marriage of 28 years—they have two older children— is “irretrievably broken.” Sources tell Nebraska Watchdog, Sheehy is no longer living at the couple’s home in Hastings.

Sheehy’s wife is asking the court to “grant an equitable division” of the couple’s property and order the Lt. Governor, who also serves as the state’s director of homeland security, to pay all attorney fees and legal expenses.

Sheehy, the former mayor of Hastings, was appointed Lt. Governor by Governor Dave Heineman in 2005.

The Republican Party’s Heineman-Sheehy ticket was elected to its first full term in 2006 and re-elected in 2010.

A year ago Sheehy announced he was running for governor in 2014. Heineman, who is term limited and unable to run again, immediately threw his support behind Sheehy.

So far the only other major name in the GOP governor sweepstakes is Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood. Flood isn’t running yet but is considering it.

Reported by Joe Jordan, joe@nebraskawatchdog.org

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Joe Jordan

  • Watching From Lincoln

    Well, guess his homeland isn’t too secure now, is it? Having dealt with the Lt. Governor a few times, I think I can understand where Connie is coming from.

  • ALSO watching from Lincoln

    I have always found the Lt. Governor to be very amiacable, friendly and great to work with it. Much more friendly than our current governor.

  • Constitutional Jim

    I just wish I had a wife that would divorce me.

  • Jazzee

    This is really none of our business right?

  • http://popomark@cox.net D. Mark O’Neill

    Don’t care about his personal family life, that should be private. What I care about is the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in the State of Nebraska and he is the State Director of Homeland Security and he must do about what Washington does about illegal immigrants. NOTHING!!!!!

  • Constitutional Jim

    There is nothing in the Constitution about divorce. I demand to know why the Constitution is linked to marriage. As we all know the 14th amendment article 5 discusses this exact issue.

  • SoWhat???

    An elected official getting divorced…like that’s news. Now when a cheap, corrupt Governor/US Senator’s first wife commits suicide, the intrepid reporter never digs into that story for its historic value. In this case, Joe is once again carrying water for the NE Dem Party like he does at every opportunity.

  • Dan

    And to add on to that, joe jordan has still COMPETELY ignored nelson and kerreys sweetheart deals from tarp and kerreys wife trashing the nebraskan people in her vogue article, DEAD SILENCE, where are you joe????

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