Mike Foley

Pete Ricketts selected Foley to replace Lavon Heidemann as his running mate in the 2014 Nebraska governors race.

On November 7, 2006 Foley defeated incumbent Democrat Kate Witek to become Nebraska State Auditor. In 2010 he was re-elected to a second term with 80% of the statewide vote.

In 2005, legislator Foley opposed two bills prohibiting the state government's discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation; regarding the measures, he stated, "[H]omosexual conduct is wrong. And it's OK to think that it is wrong. And it is OK to say that it is wrong."

Foley was elected in 2000 to represent the 29th Nebraska legislative district, and reelected in 2004 with 70% of the vote. He sat on the Judiciary and the Transportation and Telecommunications committees. He resigned in January, 2007 to become state auditor after winning a statewide election for that position in the 2006 election cycle.

Foley was born in Rochester, New York and graduated from Bishop Kearney High School in 1972, the State University of New York at Brockport in 1976, and Michigan State University with an M.B.A. He held summer positions in the offices of US Department of Transportation and the US International Trade Commission. For 18 years, he was the director of financial analysis for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners in Washington, DC. Prior to that position he was a consultant with Kirschner Associates.

Mike Foley (born April 5, 1954) is an American politician serving as the 41st and current Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska since 2015. A Republican, Foley was previously elected to the Nebraska Legislature from 2001 to 2007 and served as the state's Auditor of Public Accounts from 2007 until 2015.