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The Nebraska legislature has a problem: laws that allow for campaign finance fraud to go undetected. Common Cause Nebraska and Jack Gould call for reform.

Campaign funds can be used for all sorts of things. Many you wouldn't believe.

More than two years after former state Sen. Brenda Council found herself in the middle of a campaign cash scandal which eventually helped squeeze her out of office, at least one state lawmaker continues her seemingly uphill push to end any similar schemes.

Political campaigns and outside groups have poured so much money into state-level television ads this election cycle that Nebraska now ranks fourth nationally in the amount spent per voter, new analysis shows.

She wasn’t the first but maybe, just maybe, former State Sen. Brenda Council will be one of the last to use a loophole in the law to pocket thousands of dollars in campaign cash.

Common Cause Nebraska's new report on lobbying is out now.