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  Kleeb TV: LOTS of info

  Posted: May 11th, 2008, 4:20pm CDT by Street Sweeper

  Scott Kleeb is closing out the primary season with a new ad entitled, "Time". Take a gander: Wow. Information overload! Quick, what's the theme here? Yeah, we don't know either. In thirty seconds we see Scott in five different outfits, pushing (at least) six different ideas, with a two different narrators, and twelve -- count 'em -- twelve different screen "subtitles". For instance,
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  Richard Carter doesn't "want it"

  Posted: May 9th, 2008, 9:20am CDT

  After Jim Esch's ham-handed political move of endorsing Tony Raimondo over Scott Kleeb yesterday, it seemed there was one obvious move for Richard Carter: Endorse Scott Kleeb. However, Leavenworth Street has received word that Carter does NOT plan to endorse anyone in the Senate race. Apparently Richard Carter's plan of not raising money, not having an ad campaign and being a complete unknown
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  Esch does WHAT?

  Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:35pm CDT

  On Thursday, Jim Esch, candidate for the Democratic 2nd District Congressional nomination, went out of his way to endorse ...Tony Raimondo over Scott Kleeb for the Democratic Senate nomination! Yes, you heard that right. "Esch says he's convinced Raimondo is the most qualified candidate." For the life of us, we can't figure out any politically sane reason for Esch's boneheaded actions. Esch
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  Tony TV: Reading the fishwrap

  Posted: May 8th, 2008, 9:10am CDT

  Quick post on Tony Raimondo's latest ad, "Endorsement". Watch: We give the production value on this one high marks. It pulls out good quotes, shows Raimondo with Bob Kerrey and Ben Nelson, and makes Tony's best argument: "the best Democrat to face Johanns" (once again, the OWH ripping off Leavenworth Street, but we digress...) That's a pretty strong ad to go into the final weekend of the
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  Non-Nebraskans for Kleeb

  Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:30pm CDT

  With a week to go in the Democrat primary for Senate, Tony Raimondo has been taking a beating for donating about $500,000 of his own cash to his campaign. Now, forget for a minute that Raimondo said he was going to do that from the start. It's all new news now. (We'll also put aside for now the fact that Kleeb has been running for office non-stop since 2005.) (And we'll put aside that
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  It's good to be an Esch

  Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:30am CDT by Street Sweeper

  Jim Esch filed his FEC report -- on time! Nice work Jim. Esch has taken in nearly $80,000 this quarter for his challenge against Richard Carter for the Dem nomination for the 2nd District Congressional seat . But lets take a look at who contributed. We see that over $36,000 -- nearly 45% came from someone with the surname "Esch"-- all the primary max of $2,300. (The list is not unlike the
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  Mike Teevee: Johanns on the air (and a new Kleeb)

  Posted: April 30th, 2008, 11:55am CDT

  Mike Johanns will begin airing campaign ads today statewide. **UPDATE 2:45pm** Scott Kleeb also has a new ad up. See it with our commentary below. His first ad, entitled "Proven. Tested. Trusted." is below. Take a look: Our initial reaction is that this ad is...OK. It generally gives a nice wrap-up of Johanns's career, re-introducing him to Nebraska. But... The initial problem seems to be
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  Tony TV: My Opponents...

  Posted: April 28th, 2008, 9:39pm CDT

  Tony Raimondo's latest 30 seconds up, entitled, "Experience". Take a look: Now THIS is the type of ad that Raimondo should have had up initially. Much better summary of his background and experience. Of course Tony also takes the first shots across the bows of the Mike Johanns and Scott Kleeb campaigns. But then, Kleeb has been doing that from the very moment he entered the race. (It's
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  Half-baked campaign

  Posted: April 24th, 2008, 9:50am CDT by Street Sweeper

  Well, you gotta say this about Rich Carter: If the kid is going down, he's going down swinging. During last night's debate, Carter and Jim Esch were able to ask each other a question. Esch tossed a softball to Carter who swatted it away. And what does Carter do? He asks Esch if he'll take a drug test, just like many federal employees have to do. Afterwards, Carter ambushed Esch with an
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  LeeTerry.com

  Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 6:00am CDT by Street Sweeper

  Lee Terry (finally) has his new website up for the 2008 campaign. And we have to say that it is probably the best campaign website up these days, as far as the look, ease of use, photos, videos, etc. The "Issues" section has excellent blurbs on each point, though maybe could use a link to more fleshed out information. Now all that being said, we here on Leavenworth Street are equal-opportunity