State Senator Ditches Dem Party After 40 Years To Become A RepublicanA Nebraska state senator has switched to the Republican

The lawmaker said that his religious beliefs about the sanctity of life made Democrats

The lawmaker said that his religious beliefs about the sanctity of life

made Democrats “punish” him by taking away their support and having the state party’s main committee censure him.

“Today I’m announcing, I am now going to be a registered Republican in the state of Nebraska,” said, McDonnell, a former firefighter and union leader.

“I asked the Democratic Party in Douglas County to respect that I’m pro-life, that I’m a member of the Roman Catholic Church. And my beliefs are based on that,” McDonnell said. “Douglas County Democrats instead of respecting it, they decided to punish it.”