Posted on 06/07/2007 11:18:47 AM PDT by flixxx
Published Thursday | June 7, 2007 Jon Bruning officially enters Senate race BY ROBYNN TYSVER WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
It's official: Jon Bruning entered the 2008 Senate race today.
Jon Bruning announcing his run for the Senate in the rotunda of the State Capitol.The second-term Nebraska attorney general said he will run for Senate whether fellow Republican and incumbent Sen. Chuck Hagel runs or not.
"I am a candidate without reservations," Bruning said at a news conference in Lincoln today. "I'm running hard and I'm running to win."
Hagel, who has angered many rank-and-file party members with his criticism of the Iraq war, has not announced whether he will run for a third term. He plans to make his decision in the fall.
Bruning said he is disappointed in Hagel's vote for early troop withdrawal from Iraq and Hagel's support of President Bush's immigration bill.
Bruning said he believes he can beat Hagel and former Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns if either get into the race. He tried to paint Hagel as an out-of-touch Washington lawmaker who is not a Nebraskan.
He referred to Hagel - who currently lives in Virginia - as a carpetbagger. Bruning said that if former Sen. Bob Kerrey got into the race he would also portray him as a carpetbagger.
Bruning noted that his supporters include former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne, Omaha businessman David Sokol and state Treasurer Shane Osborn.
Bruning made his announcement with family and about 75 supporters in the rotunda of the State Capitol.
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Jon Bruning
AGE: 38. Born April 30, 1969, in Lincoln to Roger and Mary Bruning.
RESIDENCE: Lancaster County
EDUCATION: Graduated from Lincoln Southeast High School in 1987. Graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1990. Earned law degree from UNL in 1994.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: General counsel for Vital Learning Corp. in Omaha, 1994-1997. Attorney in private practice.
POLITICAL EXPERIENCE: Vice president of University of Nebraska student government, 1989-1990. Elected as a state senator in 1996 and re-elected in 2000. Elected attorney general in 2002 and re-elected in 2006.
RELIGION: Methodist
FAMILY: Wife, Deonne Niemack, two children.
Can he win? If so, I’ll have to send him money.
I am tempted to move to Nebraska so I can vote against Hagel.
he was on levin yesterday, he’s up by nine points on the rino already.
Positions? Another RINO? Anything besides bio info? :)
Bruning is a brave man. He’s going to have the full force of the Bush administration aimed against him until he loses the primary.
I have not paid attention to any polls, but I believe that almost anyone would have a chance against Hagel (and I imagine that Bruning’s pollsters have told him the same). A real question would be if the former NE Governor, Johanns, got in the race...this would be a challenge for Bruning.
Almost makes me want to move to Nebraska.
Almost.
We don't need a Quisling representing a solid American state.
>> Positions? Another RINO? Anything besides bio info? :)
Well, the DONATE TO MY CAMPAIGN page seems to be up ‘n running! ROFL!
our lovable “political class” are so predictable
That will be the slogan of 08. Anybody But RINO’s.
“Bruning is a brave man. He’s going to have the full force of the Bush administration aimed against him until he loses the primary.”
The BushBots are not feared or powerful as they used to be.
The Grassroots will control the primaries, this time around.
Not the Rockefeller wing.
How can you vote against that squeaky clean good looking American family. Later Chucky!
I’m just saying, that the Bush administration will be out there doing everything in their power to make sure Hagel wins the nomination. That’s nothing to scoff at.
38 too young ? If we can get 30-year old Conservatives to run for the Senate, we should do it.
Carpetbagger ... funny how poisonous that word still is, nearly a century and a half after the fact, and in regions that didn't even experience them.
He holds statewide office and can win if conservatives all across the nation come together and donate time and money to help him out, but looking at FR, I'm guessing he won't win because many "conservatives" would rather use that time and money in other states to go after people who agree with them 90% of the time.
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