I’m working on a larger congressional project right now, but I want to share some good news out of Nebraska:
Democrat Scott Kleeb is expected to join the race for U.S. Senate next week.
A source with knowledge of Kleeb’s plans said the Hastings resident has decided to run.
On Wednesday, Kleeb would say only that he’d made a decision and would have an announcement on Monday.
The source spoke on condition of anonymity because Kleeb hasn’t made his announcement yet.
Kleeb would be running in the primary against Larry Marvin of Fremont and Tony Raimondo of Columbus.
Two Republicans are running: former Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns and Schuyler businessman Pat Flynn. Steve Larrick is the Green Party candidate.
Raimondo had considered running as a Republican but changed parties, saying the primary closed up when Johanns entered.
Raimondo is not even a DINO. He’s a Republican. Kleeb can win this primary, although winning the senate seat will be an uphill battle. Think Jon Tester.
yum ….
I mean. What excellent news!
that was funny
I just may have to get to Nebraska this fall. I feel a swoon coming on.
He’s got videos from his last run for Congress too. He could be the youngest Senator, if his YouTube profile is right. It says he’s 32. Anyone know who the youngest is now?
I guess this one is for the ladies, huh?
Swoon away, hearts aflutter!!!
a classic case of belt butt :{)
After he finished that speech he came over and stood right in front of me and kidspeak – so we spent the next 20 minutes looking at his ass.
Considering that both of us are probably old enough to be his mother — well, we were somewhat ashamed of ourselves. Not.
AWESOME! You made my day Booman. I was raised in Nebraska and Kleeb will sell much better statewide than he did in the third district 2006 congress race. He still won 45 percent of the vote.
The Nebraska Democratic party is a joke, see Ben Nelson and his chosen Senate candidate, Tony Raimondo.
This state is ripe for a change political in spite of the state parties deficiencies. Over half of the state’s population lives in 2 cities Lincoln, a college town and Omaha, who’s suburbs are pretty moderate. The Democratic challenger, Jim Esch, almost upset GOP Rep. Lee Terry last cycle in the Omaha congressional district(NE-2).
Plus, the democratic caucuses were a success and Obama on top of the ticket is going to excite the independent electorate.
Johanns will still be favored to win but he is tied to the Bush legacy more than people think. Kleeb will give him a run for his money.
Kleeb has been living in Nebraska and married a Nebraska woman. He was not able to shake the outsider label last election. This will not be the case this time.
Plus, Kleeb is smart, articulate and has great progressive ideas. I wish the DNC and DSCC would feel the same about him. I hope so.
Kleeb will be better than anything available to the Dems in Nebraska. But let’s not forget that he didn’t buck Bush in his 2006 campaign and went so far as to say he supported the president on Iraq. Hopefully he’s rethought this position and a few others.
Any Dem is better than Johanns, and this time around a Dem should have as good a chance as any, but spare the hearts and flowers for Kleeb until we hear a little more of what he wants to be about this time around. (Can you tell I’m a little skeptical about any Dem from Nebraska?) If we really wanted a sure winner, we’d somehow get Warren Buffet to run. 😉
As far as Jim Esch, his campaign didn’t have the sense to do any polling that would’ve gotten him support from the national coffers. His so-called almost upset of Lee (I’m a ginormous douchebag) Terry was that he got within 10,000 votes of the turd. Esch is also staunchly anti-abortion, but then so is Benny the ‘Do (and even he can be cajoled into voting for Planned Parenthood funds). Here in holier than thou St. Wenceslaus and St. Leo territory, that’s a plus that could asuage the unaffiliated and the single-issue voters (very many of them here) to cross the line.
As a resident of suburban, west Omaha, I can tell you that the suburbs of Omaha are NOT moderate. They are hardcore GOP apologists and while they may no longer trumpet the virtues of W, these folks will still vote straight R in November. The moderates are still in the UNO/Dundee area and further east.
Relatively speaking, we had fantastic turnout for our caucus (almost 1000) because a lot of first-time voters registered and a lot of former independent and GOP switched to Dem registrations to caucus against Hillary Clinton.
Sarpy county (suburbs to the south that include Offutt AFB/StratCom) is as red as red can be, but had a turnout around 6000+, but again fueled by newbie voters and switchers.