LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature will retake a vote on a proposal to slow down voter-approved minimum wage increases – but likely not this session. A Democratic-led minority and Republican-led majority in the officially nonpartisan body fought Thursday over whether to allow reconsideration of the vote on Lincoln State Sen. Jane Raybould’s Legislative Bill 258.

Raybould, whose family owns a grocery store chain that includes Super Saver, is the lone Democrat supporting the slowdown. State Sen. Dave Wordekemper of Fremont is the lone Republican opposing the bill. The rest of the Legislature’s Democrats and one nonpartisan progressive who usually votes with them argued against ignoring “the will of the people.” They celebrated a brief tactical victory on May 14 by forcing a faster vote while one GOP senator was off the floor and missed the vote.

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