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I'm not going to waste 2010 responding to every silly attack against Democratic Congressional candidate Tom White by the Republican bloggers at Leavenworth Street and GOP State Chair Mark Fahleson. But, their latest attempts to inflate Congressman Lee Terry's position while deflating Democrats' hopes for White are so laughably transparent and outlandish that they can't go unchallenged and ...
New Nebraska Network - Mon 3:41 a.m. - 5 clicks 
When our local county Democratic party tried to march with Senator Ben Nelson's (D-NE) campaign in a rural parade in the summer of 2004, we were asked by his aides not to. In fact, they insisted that we separate our group from theirs by at least two parade entries, so nobody would confuse him as a Democrat. As if anyone would. Things are pretty bad when you live in a state so r...
DailyKos (Nebraska) - Sat 3:20 p.m. - 4 clicks
Gov. Dave Heineman is an immoral man. His is an immoral administration that, quite frankly, makes me ashamed to be a Nebraskan. That is a new feeling for me. It's a terrible feeling. But, it's one shared by any Nebraskan with a conscience after the continuing revelations of the Heineman Administration's efforts to balance the state budget by cheating an estimated 6,000 pr...
New Nebraska Network - Fri 10:02 a.m. - 4 clicks
. . . for people who ride motorcycles. Yes, this year at the old 'non-partisan' (cough) unicameral, our senators are addressing all sorts of VERY important issues. Like repealing a 20+ year motorcycle helmet law. We just don't like big brother mandating anything for us here in Nebraska (cough) er, like requiring motorcycle helmets. The irony inspired by the unicam is never disap...
DailyKos (Nebraska) - Thu 9:26 a.m. - 2 clicks
On Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 3), the Nebraska Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee will be holding its public hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment ( LR 289CA ) that would prohibit health insurance mandates. According to the Associated Press , similar proposals are being orchestrated in 33 other states by right-wing legislators hoping to score political points and erec...
New Nebraska Network - Wed 1:09 a.m. - 4 clicks
Lee Terry tweets : President's proposed budget more than doubles the debt, increases our deficit and raises taxes. 'Spend now pay later' mentality must stop. Mr. Terry might have some credibility on the issue, except that on his watch: An annual surplus of $86 billion in 2000 was quickly squandered and turned into an annual deficit from 2001 to 2006. In 2004, the deficit reached ...
New Nebraska Network - Tue 9:03 p.m. - 3 clicks
After the first six months of 2009, Gallup released an astonishing poll showing more Nebraskans identifying with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party by a margin of 43% to 42%. Nebraska GOP Chair Mark Fahleson immediately dismissed the poll as "a post-election euphoric snapshot" and declared, "I think these poll results would be tremendously different if the poll was taken tod...
New Nebraska Network - Feb 1 - 4 clicks
Gov. Dave Heineman was very successful in the 2006 Republican primary attacking then-Congressman Tom Osborne over his support for providing in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant children who graduate from Nebraska high schools. This taught a very ugly and dangerous lesson to our state's most ambitious politicians, and they learned it only too well. State Senator Charlie Janssen of F...
New Nebraska Network - Jan 30
A large part of Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle's appeal is that he's supposed to be an engineer rather than a politician. Sadly, it appears he's moving away from that promise with his recent posturing against State Senator Tom White and his bill to exempt certain utility fees from the sales tax. Although it's broader in construction and would exempt any utilities fees collected for infrastru...
New Nebraska Network - Jan 26 - 3 clicks
After the hottest decade on record , Ben Nelson gave his support to an effort to reverse the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) finding that "greenhouse gases . . . endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations." Nelson's attempt to legislatively derail a scientific finding based on decades of climate research is misguided and harmful to Nebraska, ...
New Nebraska Network - Jan 22
The Omaha World-Herald's new poll of 500 registered Nebraska voters does not appear to have asked a single question about this year's 2nd Congressional District race between six-term Republican incumbent Lee Terry and Democratic State Senator Tom White. Still, the results published alongside three articles earlier in the week ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) reveal an electoral picture that's actually quite ...
New Nebraska Network - Jan 21 - 2 clicks
Last Thursday, Republican Gov. Dave Heineman delivered an embarrassing State of the State address that was wholly devoid of new ideas or a vision for Nebraska's future. The sad thing is that he's none the worse for it. In fact, he's just one step closer to an easy re-election that should shame every Democrat and progressive in the state. In the absence of a credible Democratic chall...
New Nebraska Network - Jan 18 - 4 clicks
Finally, an ad that tells the truth from a real doctor in our state. This week, Vote Kids, launched an ad campaign featuring Dr.McKinney and bringing some needed common sense to the airwaves. The ad explains that families will save on average $2,500 . The ad also reminds Nebraskans that Senator Nelson has a history of standing up for kids with creating Kids Connection, which no...
New Nebraska Network - Jan 15 - 5 clicks
