On Tuesday morning, Governor Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) unveiled Nebraska's new license plate design to the public.
— Gov. Pete Ricketts (@GovRicketts) March 22, 2016
And it was immediately met with much ridicule. Besides the bland design and Michigan color scheme, there was something, well, off about the depiction of the Sower, which sits on top of Nebraska's State Capitol in Lincoln. Jeff Koterba, the Omaha World-Herald's cartoonist, has used the Sower in dozens of editorial cartoons over the years, describes it this way:
The image of the Sower on the license plate seems to me to be distorted, as though the elegant form I have studied over the years from every angle has been squished down and stretched sideways.