Analysis: Stothert landslide. How? What’s next?

By   /  May 15, 2013  /  Nebraska, Nebraska Featured, Nebraska Video  /  76 Comments

Mayor-Elect Jean Stothert celebrates her win

Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
OMAHA—A west Omaha Republican landslide has handed Republican Jean Stothert the keys to the corner office on the 3rd floor of City Hall come June 10.
Stothert’s 57-42 win over incumbent Democrat Jim Suttle earns her the title of Omaha’s 51st mayor and the city’s first female chief executive.
How did she pile up such big numbers [...]

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Stothert elected first female mayor of Omaha

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Nebraska  /  8 Comments

Who will get the corner office on City Hall's 3rd floor?

By Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
Updated 10:20 p.m.
OMAHA— Jean Stothert has been elected mayor of Omaha.
She said incumbent Mayor Jim Suttle was an incredibly hard worker and credited him for that in her speech before supporters.
“I will work hard every day to renew (your) confidence during my term of office,” she said.
Suttle gave a concession speech in [...]

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Video Special: Mayor’s race ending after starting as Suttle’s to lose

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Nebraska, Nebraska Video  /  4 Comments

Jean Stothert and Jim Suttle during a recent debate

Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
OMAHA—The polls across the city are open and will stay open until 8 p.m. as voters prepare to send either Mayor Jim Suttle or City Council member Jean Stothert to the sidelines.
For both Suttle and Stothert it is win or leave office. Suttle is seeking his second term, while Stothert has [...]

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Death penalty vote indicative of NE Legislature’s move to middle

By   /  May 13, 2013  /  Nebraska  /  14 Comments

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Debate over whether to repeal the death penalty is an example of how the Nebraska Legislature seems to have moved to the middle as term limits churn the membership more frequently than in the past.

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Analysis: Suttle tries to push back at Stothert’s post primary surge

By   /  May 13, 2013  /  Nebraska, Nebraska Video, Uncategorized  /  33 Comments

Jean Stothert and JIm Suttle prior to a recent debate

Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
In the final hours before voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Mayor Jim Suttle has dropped a chunk of his own cash into the race while Democrats tout some early voting numbers.
Both are seen as attempts to stop Republican Jean Stothert’s surge following her first place finish in the April [...]

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