What do you do when you hate the possible solution to a problem but can’t think of a better one? Is it best to accept the bad solution or just realize you’ll have to live with the problem?

That’s the situation members of the Unicameral find themselves in right now as they try to find a solution to the red light runners.

In a number of recent columns, I have expressed my firmly held belief that getting rid of dividing our electoral votes and going to “Winner Take All” is bad for Nebraska and, more specifically, Omaha.

So, when Jean Stothert was a guest of the Free Speech Society last Saturday, I asked her the first question, and it was why she supports “Winner Take All.”

President Trump put some pressure on Governor Pillen, so Governor Pillen then put some pressure on the members of Nebraska’s Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee and got winner-take-all to go before the General Assembly. Pillen hopes that if Nebraska buckles to the wishes of President Trump, the President will support him or at least not go against him, and support Pillens former foe Chuck Herbster should he decide to run for governor again.

Mike McDonnell is banking on the hope that voters have short memories or no recollection of the past.

It’s understandable if they don’t remember. After all, voters have jobs, families, and a lot of other things on their minds. So, when they see a TV ad for McDonnell with former Omaha mayors PJ Morgan and Mike Fahey, they either weren’t around or don’t remember what happened under those mayors decades ago.