LINCOLN- Senator Megan Hunt, one of Nebraska's highest-profile Democrats, has left the party and registered as nonpartisan. Hunt has had many different parties throughout the course of her life saying, "I have been a Republican, an independent, a Libertarian, a Democrat, back to Republican to vote in the primary, back to Democrat." As an active member in this year's legislative proceedings, the change may come as a surprise for some.

Many are asking what prompted such a switch. The answer is that the intensity of the legislative fights in Nebraska, the focus on party affiliation in media, and the lack of support from national groups for liberal candidates in conservative-dominated states led Hunt to make the jump. "The parties are not the future," she said. "The political dysfunction is extreme and at the national level, the parties are ideologically bankrupt."

Hunt noted that prominent Democratic organizations wanted to highlight and support her work in this year's Legislature, but they got involved after the battle was already fought. "We have scrapped and fought and won against a lot of odds in a system that funds Republicans with a blank check but abandons progressives, and they want to share the credit for it?" Hunt said. "Go away." Hunt said she remains on the left of the political spectrum and will continue advocating for those positions.

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