Will Ramsey was one of the Nebraska Senate candidate’s first campaign hires
Nebraska independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn, a self-described centrist, has pledged to “stand up” for police officers and to ensure the “safety and security of our communities.” One of Osborn’s first campaign hires has called to defund police departments and attended an anti-police rally in Omaha that featured severed pig heads.
Will Ramsey works as a “digital organizer” for Osborn’s campaign against Sen. Pete Ricketts (R.). He worked on Osborn’s ill-fated campaign against Sen. Deb Fischer (R.), joining in September 2023 after attending a “private, intimate kickoff party” at Osborn’s home in September 2023.
Years earlier, Ramsey was active in Omaha’s anti-police movement. Ramsey stated in December 2020 that “the police in the United States and Omaha needs to be defunded and reorganized.” In 2021, Ramsey attended a “Pig Roast” organized by the Revolutionary Action Party (RAP)–an activist group that styles itself after the Black Panther Party–in which activists carried the three severed pig heads adorned in police hats at a protest outside police union headquarters, according to photos Ramsey posted on his Instagram account.
Ramsey, who locked down his Instagram account after a request for comment, attended another RAP event in August 2021, where he posted photos of a chalk drawing that read “Cops Kill.” Ramsey also “liked” social media posts from the group, including a cartoon that depicted Omaha police union president Anthony Conner as a pig. The post called on Conner to resign from the police union and threatened to “agitate, escalate, and intensify” its efforts if he refused to do so. “Anthony Connor [sic] is hereby considered to be on notice,” RAP stated.
It’s not Osborn’s only affiliation with anti-police and left-wing activists.
Osborn, who calls himself a “lifelong independent,” tapped Brad Chester, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, to serve as finance director on his campaign against Fischer. Chester had worked on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) campaigns, and in 2021 wrote about how to achieve “socialism in our lifetime,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Osborn’s campaign consulting firm, Fight Agency, also works for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral candidate who has called to defund police departments and has said all cops are racist. Fight Agency also works for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who referred to all cops as “bastards” in Reddit posts.
Osborn, a former mechanic and union organizer, has said he is aligned with Republicans on border security, military, and law enforcement. But his connections to liberal operatives and the Democratic Party have led to allegations that he is merely a “Democrat in disguise.”
Ricketts has called Osborn a “fake independent” aligned with Senate Democrats like Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.).
Schumer’s political action committee poured millions of dollars into Osborn’s campaign against Fischer, and left-wing organizations like the Democratic dark money juggernaut Sixteen Thirty Fund donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Osborn last year.
Even Osborn’s efforts to embrace the conservative movement are linked to Democrats.
Conservatives for Osborn, a super PAC affiliated with the campaign, is led by co-treasurers Brandon Philipczyk and James Vihstadt. Philipczyk served as director of Hillary Clinton’s Nevada operations in 2016, and Vihstadt is a delegate for the Nebraska Democratic Party, the Free Beacon reported.
Ramsey locked down his Instagram account after the Free Beacon contacted him for comment. He did not respond.
Osborn campaign manager John Dolan called the Free Beacon‘s reporting on Ramsey’s anti-police history “shit on paper” and said Osborn “has always fully supported police and has never supported defunding them.”
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