I often am asked: “If elected to the United States Senate, which party will I caucus with? “My answer: Neither! If elected, I’m going to Washington to represent Nebraska. I’m going to represent America. I’m not going to represent a party. I’m going to put the state of Nebraska and it’s hard working people first.
I will have three major priorities: the budget, tax reform and fixing the Affordable Care Act. Until the budget is dealt with in a meaningful way it is undermining the nation’s security and infrastructure. Everyone agrees that the tax code is too complicated but no one is willing to fix it because there have been too many tax breaks and loopholes handed out. The tax code impacts everyone and Congress must find a way to simplify it.
As for the Affordable Care Act, it is time to stop the political posturing and accept that it will never be repealed and instead move forward with fixing the unworkable parts of the law.
My diverse background uniquely qualifies me for the U.S. Senate. I’ve learned how to build consensus in business and agriculture while working within statewide associations and in local government. I’m someone who is most interested in finding solutions, not who gets the credit.
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Not saying it’s his fault, but ballot access ain’t horseshoes.
As for wall street banksters, never mind tax – think menial employment in prison industries.
Dan Buhrdorf of the fledgling Tax Wall Street Party is currently petitioning in Omaha in the state’s second congressional district. He collected 146 signatures on Monday, had a family emergency on Tuesday and was only able to obtain 50 signatures, but did better on Wednesday and Thursday, garnering about 200 signatures on both days. He cobbled together roughly 100 signatures yesterday.
He needs a minimum of 4,880 valid signatures, divided more or less evenly between the state’s three congressional districts.
Having already garnered more 2,500 signatures in the state’s first district in Lincoln, Nebraska, he plans to move on to the third district in the western part of the state — Grand Island, Kearney, Hastings and Beatrice — sometime next week. It’ll involve a considerable amount of traveling. Dan has some outside petition circulators coming in next week, who might be able to help swell his numbers. He could sorely use some professional help, but lacks the financial resources to do so. It’s going to be a close call. If he falls short, it won’t be for lack of effort on his part.
Dan may very well come up short, but at least he had the guts to try to take on Wall Street, the financial oligarchs who — thanks to the generosity of U.S. taxpayers and the Federal Reserve, the latter of which has propped up the global financial markets to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars — have benefited so mightily in the aftermath of the financial crisis of their own making while almost everybody else in this country is barely hanging on for dear life. The joke is on us.
Well then..I predict they will fail.
According to Ballot Access News, the deadline for party petitions in Nebraska is not until August 1st, and the deadline for independent candidate petitions is not until September 2nd.
Hasn’t the deadline passed?
The “Tax Wall Street Party” is trying to get a candidate on the ballot for this race as well. Their partisans are trying toi link the republican candidate to GOP pedophile rings.
Translation: “If elected, I will be a completely ineffective legislator.”
Right on, Stewart!
He is in the center. He is in the center of the black hole of political ignorance. He thinks he can fix “affordable care”? First he needs to understand and accept that it is not, and never will be, either affordable or actual care. If he can do that, he will want to repeal it. If he can’t, then he’ll end up just another clueless political wannabe.
“Sensible center”? Anyone who thinks he can “fix” Obamacare is certainly NOT in the center!