Ernie Chambers, a champion of the voiceless, has introduced a bill to ban capital punishment in each of his 36 years in the legislature. This time it might succeed“White people, they don’t have a high opinion of me,” says Ernie Chambers, Nebraska’s long-serving legislator. “They thought I was uppity and arrogant – they didn’t like my attitude.”They may not like Chambers’ attitude in the super-conservative cornhusker state, but they are certainly listening to him now.