NE: Progressive PAC passes on Kerrey

By   /   September 20, 2012  /   9 Comments

By Deena Winter | Nebraska Watchdog

The votes are in, and a progressive political action committee has decided to throw its weight, and money, behind a Connecticut congressman, rather than Bob Kerrey.

Bob Kerrey

The Progressives United PAC, launched by former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, recently asked supporters to choose from five “strong campaigns” nationwide to help it decide where to target funding. They chose U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, who’s running for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut. Kerrey was among the five choices.

Feingold was ousted from his seat after conservative groups spent millions supporting his opponent, and he’s now devoted to fighting the influence of corporate money in politics.

Kerrey, a former Nebraska governor and senator, is running against Republican state Sen. Deb Fischer, a Valentine rancher.

However, Kerrey is getting another boost from a superPAC that has been hammering Fischer in TV and radio ads. The Fischer campaign says End the Gridlock made a two-week, $250,000 media buy for ads attacking Fischer as a tax-hiking “welfare rancher.” That’s in addition to the half million the superPAC has already spent.

While Kerrey has spoken out against superPACs, End the Gridlock’s treasurer was his spokesman when he was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and one of its big donors, Sidney Kimmel, hired Kerrey as a consultant last year.

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  • D. Mark

    Why would anyone waste money on Bob Kerrey, Ms. Fischer will be the next Senator from Nebraska and a good one at that!!!

  • Joe Sixpack

    Does Fischer still not accept that human’s burning millions of years worth of plants that have turned to coal, oil and gas, is not causing global warming and climate change? Does she not understand that climate change is what is causing the huge floods, droughts and fires in Nebraska and the Midwest?

    I think we need a smarter person in elective office. We need someone who will accept the warnings of at least 98% of the real scientists who agree that humans are causing global warming. I’ll bet she believes Rush Limbaugh who couldn’t even finish one year of college before he dropped out to become a stand-up comedian. He is still laughing all the way to his bank. Even he doesn’t believe what he says.

  • Goblin Shark

    She might be next but she won’t be good… Not for Nebraskans, anyway. She’ll be great for her wealthy masters, I’m sure.

  • D. Mark

    Ms. Fischer will prove you wrong!

  • Rodney Callahan

    Pitiful. She’ll be great for those trying to get her elected-Team Ricketts. She has been bought and sold. I’ve never had less confiedence in a candidate that Deb Fischer, she brings nothing to the table. She’ll work very hard to continue the exclusively Republican practive of protecting the wealthy, super rich and uber rich and attack welefare moms. From the party that gave us George W. Bush and Sarah Palin-Thanks Republicans.
    She’ll be as useless as Lee Terry.

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    No, she never will even if her “ranch” (public lands) burns to the ground in a Global Warming-induced wildfire, because Deb Fisher is beholden to Americans For (Koch) Prosperity, the corporate whore astroturf group of the Koch brothers and THEY fund all kinds of Global Warming Denial studies, science-denying “think tanks” and talking head echo boxes that further the ignorance of the below average American.

    BECAUSE the Koch brothers, through their holdings groups, own somewhere between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 acres, (at best guess of industry experts because as a privately held company they don’t have to disclose their holdings) of the Alberta boreal forest that overlies the Tarsands deposits, owns the Tarsands refinery in Minnesota that refines 16% of the American-used bitumen, owns extensive Tarsands pipeline and processing facilities in the Alberta Tarpatch and own several of the Texas Gulf Coast Port refineries that will refine the dilbit and then ship it to China. You could say that Deb Fisher is a Koch sucker, she’ll do whatever the money wants her to do. always has, always will. You could even say in all honesty that she’s prepared to sell out all Nebraskans just for her political gain and self-edification, as she’s already stabbed EVERY Nebraska land owner in the back with her oil pipeline exemption in the eminent domain bill she authored in 2006 that supposedly “strengthened” land owners’ rights, except for the free pass given to pipeline companies only.

    And what was happening in 2006? Why the Keystone I was nearing its final planning stages, and be sure that the Kochs didn’t want any pesky Nebraska land owners getting in the way of the pipeline that would make them billions in profits for Koch industries. So, call on their knee-pad wearing ace in the hole, Dilbit Deb Fisher, to “volunteer” to “strengthen” Nebraska eminent domain laws and screw every Nebraska landowner in the process. Because even though the KXL may not go through your property, the NEXT Tarsands pipeline to come through Nebraska just may, and there won’t be a DAMN thing any of you will be able to do about it, thanks to that snake in the grass, Dilbit Deb.

    So much for all that Conservative Republican bullshit about land owner property rights, rugged individualism, yadda yadda yadda that they yammer on about in their faux Libertarianist rants. They are pure and simple in the harsh light: Corporations and profits over people EVERY time.

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    Dilbit Deb fisher is the Koch brothers’ personal Corporate whore.

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    AMEN!!!!

  • Really?

    Could the huge floods also have to do with the fact that man altered the course of the Missouri River? It used to be like the Platte. Sometimes mother nature just wins.