LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, a day after passage of a bill he supported limiting participation in women’s sports to a student athlete’s sex at birth, kicked off his second campaign for governor with a red-meat appeal to his Republican base.

The first-term governor’s campaign video emphasized his role in signing “the largest income tax cut in Nebraska history” and says he “reduced property taxes,” done mainly by having the state absorb more of the costs of community colleges from property taxpayers. Pillen touted his rural roots as Nebraska’s first active farmer as governor in at least a century. His family runs a massive hog operation based in Columbus, Pillen Family Farms. He is also a veterinarian and former University of Nebraska regent.

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