Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has decided to resign from President Bush’s cabinet to return to Nebraska and enter the 2008 Senate race.
Posted on 09/19/2007 8:30:09 AM PDT by MassachusettsGOP
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has decided to resign from President Bush’s cabinet to return to Nebraska and enter the 2008 Senate race.
Johanns, the former two-term Republican governor, began placing phone calls to a number of friends and supporters in the state Tuesday night to inform them of his decision.
A formal announcement is expected in Nebraska next week after Johanns has submitted his resignation to the White House, according to a source close to Johanns.
Johanns and his wife, Stephanie, went house-hunting over the weekend when he was in Lincoln to attend a Saturday event at which he was honored by the Nebraska Republican Party.
The final decision to seek the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel was nailed down during the last 24 hours.
Johanns is “very excited, very pumped up,” according to the source.
(Excerpt) Read more at journalstar.com ...
This is what you wanted?
If this guys scares off Kerrey then I’m all for him.
Kerrey is so deep into the Hsu thing I’m amazed he’d even consider a run at all.
YES!!!!!!
I’m not especially worried about this race now.
Major loss for the RINO cause, and hopefully, a spur to other states to purge their ranks.
I don’t think you’ve had anything to worry about from the beginning. I disagree with you that Kerry is such a formidable foe.
What are Johanns views on the illegal immigration issue?
It’s Kerrey, not Kerry.
So? Neither one is a serious threat. IMHO, of course.
I don’t know what you are talking about...
The statement appeared near the end of the linked article.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usgonz0828,0,331440.story
I would think the party as well as the White house would like to retain a senate seat and replace an agriculture secretary.
Much better than Hagel.
I am. With Bruning and has-been Daub staying in, along with two other businessmen candidates, this could be the single ugliest Senate primary campaign Nebraska has ever seen. Ugly benefits Kerrey and/or Fahey.
If any of you have been reading my blurbs you can understand that a former Gov. is what we need to run a statewide election campaign. Why couldn’t he have run against Nelson 2 years ago? Is he afraid of a fight like most of the others?
If any of you have been reading my blurbs you can understand that a former Gov. is what we need to run a statewide election campaign. Why couldn’t he have run against Nelson 2 years ago? Is he afraid of a fight like most of the others?
Many of us thought he was going to run against Nelson, but the suspicion was that in not running Johanns against the center-right Nelson, we got an agreement from the latter to be as favorable to the administration as possible. Given the fiasco that last year was, even if Johanns had run, he may still have lost to Nelson. Remember that the highly popular Nelson lost when he ran for Jim Exon’s open seat in 1996, back when we though Hagel was hot stuff.
Whom should Bush nominate, for Secretary of Agriculture? I hope that he’ll choose Richard Pombo, a rancher who was a conservative congressman, from Calif., 1993-2007.
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