Gov. Jim Pillen played his Republican cards today, getting firmly behind the GOP candidate for mayor of Lincoln and at the same time naming a new anti-abortion/anti-transgender health care, state senator.

That new lawmaker, Carolyn Bosn, replacing that mayoral hopeful, soon to be former State Sen. Suzanne Geist.

Fresh off a second-place finish in this week’s mayoral primary, Geist announced yesterday that she’d resign her seat in the Unicameral to go “all in” for the final four weeks leading up to Lincoln’s general election in May.

Pillen says he’s all in as well, offering to go door-to-door if need be to help Geist defeat Democrat Mayor Leiron Gaylor Baird.

Bosn, a former Assistant Lancaster County Attorney and mother of “four children under 10” said today she believes life begins at conception and is in favor of a proposed six-week ban on abortion, which has cleared the initial round of debate in the Legislature but still holds an uncertain future.

She also said she favors the extremely controversial bill which would prohibit gender-altering procedures, including surgeries, for anyone under the age of 19.