Ryan and his roomie.

 Ryan Hamilton was named Executive Director of the Nebraska Republican Party on March 13, 2019.

Let me say right away that I do not think Ryan is a very nice human being. We used both to contribute to a Lincoln Nebraska politics forum which had strict rules about civility. This did not prevent Ryan from dragging up some obviously phony teaching evaluations of me from a student revenge site, because he lost an argument. His twitter handle is @ryanmfhamilton (what does mf stand for, mom?), although he doesn't want you reading his Twitter feed.

So let's review Ryan's history. He's 35 years old, He comes from Nevada. He attended Chaparral High School in Las Vegas, and Catholic University of America in Washington DC from 2004-2009, and then took a Masters' in Journalism and Media Studies from 2011-2014. A nice Catholic boy, you might say. He's devoted a lot of time to Nevada Boys' State, from back when he was in high-school. Before he came here, he worked for a lobbying firm in Carson City and then Las Vegas. He coaches weightlifting.

In his professional life, Ryan has been a lobbyist for the NRA, and for right-wing billionaire Sheldon Adelson. He's currently a vice-president of a company named j3 strategies, along with his NEGOP gig. A very successful guy, except that poor Ryan is still single. He has not yet secured the love of a Good Woman that NEGOP allies the Nebraska Family Alliance would wish for him. 

Ah, I hear you say, give the poor guy a break. He's busy, what with being deep into Boys' State, as well as his lobbying company and the Nebraska Republican Party, trying to drag America back into a meaner version of the nineteenth century. He hasn't had time for dalliances. And maybe the reason he's so mean is he's lonely.

Possibly. But Ryan has found a good way to make those long Nebraska winter evenings more cheerful. He has a roomie. I'll call the roomie DN. DN is 6 years younger than Ryan. Ryan and DN have been pals since at least 2017. In fact, here's Ryan and DN, with DN's mom, at something that looks suspiciously like a wedding. Matching boutonnieres, y'all. Now that's true roominosity.

Ryan and DN lived together on a street called Rainbow Boulevard in Las Vegas (seriously). Then when Ryan moved to the Cornhusker State in March 2019, DN followed him the same month, which must have been a bit of a wrench, since DN has a new-agey occupation that probably is more marketable in Vegas. What a great roomie!  DN seems to have been struggling a bit, spacing out those new-agey lessons with some barista work. Ryan has tried to help him, posting a review that he...

worked with [DN} on my range of motion both in group and individual settings. He listens carefully to my goals and always has suggestions for how to increase my flexibility and work out the kinks in my body from hours sitting behind a desk or a steering wheel. 

Of course, Ryan would not put up with mooching. DN earns his keep! He's a Republican, dammit. But as far as I can tell, the roomies are still roomies. I'm sure that's all they are. I'm a little worried about DN, since he seems to be gradually adopting Ryan's rabid right wing politics. But you know, owners start to look like their pets. Or vice versa. It just happens.

Some of you, I know, have dirty, suspicious minds. You will read things into this. Bad things. But just be advised the Nebraska Republican Party is committed to moral training based on principles established by God, and believes that the institution of marriage is crucial to the American family and that marriage should be defined as the legal union of one man and one woman. There is no way they, or their Executive Director, would countenance any of the uncharitable things that are passing through your fevered imaginations right now. 

Put those right out of your minds, and say a prayer for Ryan and DN's entirely platonic but very, very close friendship.