Rick Sheehy

Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned on Saturday February 2nd following a newspaper report that he used his state-issued cell phone to place thousands of late-night calls to women. Sheehy’s chances to win the governor’s seat looked good, Hibbing said, after the former legislature speaker Mike Flood withdrew from the race citing his wife’s cancer. With the GOP field now empty, he says Attorney General John Bruning or state legislator Charlie Janssen may run. Bruning ran for the U.S. Senate last year and drew attention as one of several attorneys general who sued the Obama administration over the health reform law. Heineman had served as lieutenant governor under Gov. Mike Johanns, who resigned in 2005 to join President George W. Bush’s Cabinet. Heineman became governor and appointed Sheehy his lieutenant. The two were elected to full four-year terms in 2006 and 2010. Sheehy recently served a term as chairman of the National Lieutenant Governors Association. Before his appointment as lieutenant governor, Sheehy was a mayor and rose through the ranks of an ambulance company where he worked for 20 years. A native of Hastings, Sheehy graduated from St. Cecilia High School. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and later received certification as a paramedic from Central Community College. Sheehy worked for Rural/Metro Ambulance for more than 20 years, starting as an emergency medical technician and becoming Rural/Metro’s paramedic field supervisor. In 1987, he became the market general manager, a position he held until his appointment as Lt. Governor. Lt. Governor Sheehy has two grown children, Maggie Sheehy is a medical student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Joel is a graduate from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.