Actually, at my caucus location, things were pretty hectic. But it was a great experience none the less, and literally a hundred or so new Democrats were registered to vote at my precinct alone (that voter-registrar training we did last year helped again!). Some of the new voters were high school students, other […]
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Merry Xmas UNO Dems & Frm. Prez. Renner… a Bright Idea Shines
Published by December 28th, 2007 0 CommentsI’ve been meaning to blog this for a few days…
An issue which former UNO Dems President Ryan Renner spent a lot of time working on, and which the UNO Dems adopted as a pet project a few years ago seems to have hit the big time in the recent Democratic Congress’ energy bill.
The […]
Great Post From Jane Flemming: Young Voters Do Not Equal Unicorns
Published by October 8th, 2007 0 CommentsJane Flemming Kleeb is most famous in Nebraska recently for being Scott’s wife. Most people also know she was the brilliant Executive Director for YDA, and a few people know she is still currently the go-to-gal for the Young Voter PAC. But did you know she has a blog?
And this week […]
The U.S. Congress hasn’t been too great on a lot of things (getting us out of Iraq, stopping Bush’s conservative agenda), but they’ve been doing a great job going to bat for students on the issue of Student Loans & College Cost Reduction.
Just last week a very important piece of legislation was passed […]
Lee Terry Hates Poor Kids
You see, today Terry & 158 of his extreme-right-wing friends (including Nebraska’s other two congressmen, Smith & Fortenberry) voted against the SCHIP renewal and expansion. Thankfully, the bill still passed with a huge bipartisan majority of 265 votes.
CHIP (the Childrens Health Insurance Program) was a 1990s program that provided […]
The Nebraska GOP is just terrified of former Senator & Governor (and near rock-star) Bob Kerrey loading up for another Senate campaign.
Here’s a screen shot from the NEGOP website:
Not only that, but besides their 360 word frontpage attack piece (with 13, count them 13 bullet points!), the only 2 press releases ago, they […]
Photos from the first night of Tribute are up in the photo gallery. We’ll be adding more as the week goes on. Special thanks so far to 40 or so volunteers who showed up to place flags, and the the members of the media (CBS, NBC, Fox, and the Omaha World-Herald so far…) […]