[3] The district, in the southeastern part of the state, then consisted of Fillmore, Jefferson, Saline, and Thayer counties.
[5][6][7][8] Shada was eliminated from the race; Combs and Karpisek, as the top two vote-getters, were to move on to the general election.
Less than two weeks after the primary, Combs, a registered nurse, announced that she had been offered a significant advance in her career, with increased responsibilities that would preclude her serving as a legislator, and withdrew from the election.
However, Ron Schwab, a former city attorney and mayor of Fairbury, secured enough petition signatures to have his name listed as well.
[9][10] Karpisek expressed support for increased state aid to schools to allow reduction of local property taxes.
In the race to succeed him, he endorsed Crete veterinarian Phil Hardenburger, a Democrat and a self-described centrist, against Republican Laura Ebke, a Crete community college instructor and the president of the Nebraska chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus, whom the Omaha World-Herald described as "conservative".
In this form, it was supported by the city of Omaha and the League of Nebraska Municipalities, as a means of raising additional revenue; it was opposed by anti-gambling groups.
[29][30][31][32] In 2013, Karpisek, a divorced father of two, prioritized LB22, introduced by Kearney senator Galen Hadley, which would require divorce courts to devise custody plans in which both parents shared decision-making authority, and which maximized parenting time for both.