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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
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  Tony: Roe vs WHAT?

  Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:25am CDT by Street Sweeper

  First Scott Kleeb gives a non-answer to Joe Jordan about whether a woman should have the right to choose to have an abortion, then refuses altogether to answer Nebraska Right To Life's questionnaire. Now Tony Raimondo has stepped in it. We all know that Tony is a businessman and he's concentrating on business and business because business-business which is to say "business". But after telling
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  Kleeb TV: still horsing around

  Posted: April 17th, 2008, 9:08am CDT

  Scott Kleeb up on TV finally. First, take a look: Kleeb, sporting the ever-present tan sport coat, begins agaaaain, explaining how all his relatives are from Nebraska. We then get lots of cowboy hats and ranching images, because if you hadn't heard, Scott Kleeb worked on a ranch. Yes we know, it's a shock, but apparently it's true. Sure he went to Yale, has been running for Congress for the
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  Tony TV: Iraq

  Posted: April 16th, 2008, 11:05am CDT by Street Sweeper

  Here is the latest TV ad from Tony Raimondo: Not a lot of words. Not much detail (though he has given a time table of one to three years to get out of Iraq). Sounds lots like Ben Nelson. Then there's that awkward arm fold. And all the while Kamp Kleeb is strangely silent... (More from Leavenworth Street on all the other campaign-related stuff soon...)
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  Neb GOP defends itself

  Posted: April 14th, 2008, 9:15am CDT by Street Sweeper

  A few weeks ago the Nebraska legislature debated issues regarding illegal immigrant rights. One very topical subject was prohibiting illegal immigrants from receiving in-state tuition at Nebraska colleges and universities. Remember that issue? Bet Tom Osborne does... So when State Sen. Steve Lathrop voted against that prohibition, the Nebraska Republican Party called him on it. They sent out
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  Leaven Street Worth?

  Posted: April 11th, 2008, 12:01am CDT

  First a little Separated at Birth of Democrat operative, Scott's wife, and fellow blogger... Jane Fleming Kleeb and actress Jeanne Tripplehorn We dedicated this SAB to Jane, because of her shout-out to us on her V-log on MTV.com's politico site. She is the "Street" correspondent for Nebraska, talking about general stuff and political stuff. She propped our little blog the other day...and...
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  Behlen for Senate

  Posted: April 9th, 2008, 1:40am CDT by Street Sweeper

  Tony Raimondo has the first ad of the political season (not counting the early Hal Daub ads ) on the airwaves. First, take a look for yourself, then our critique: OK, for this little bio piece, to "tell Raimondo's story", they used thirteen different speakers. 13!!! Without watching it again, did any one stick out? Was any memorable? (Well, except for the guy from ZZ Top at the end..)
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  Kleeb stares at the cake

  Posted: April 7th, 2008, 4:50am CDT by Street Sweeper

  Joe Jordan of KMTV Channel 3 in Omaha recently quizzed Scott Kleeb on his abortion stance. “Pro-choice or Pro-life?”, asked Jordan. Kleeb then did his rattle-snake impression, twisting and turning, refusing to pin either label on himself. Kleeb says he is personally against abortion, wants to reduce abortion, etc. (See the video of Jordan's interview of Kleeb here.) And that’s fine and all,
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  Esch: Dishonorable, corrupt (we're told)

  Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 10:00am CDT

  Jim Esch will be running a dishonorable, corrupt campaign that is pledged to special interest groups. How do we know? Well, Jim Esch told us so. You see, back in 2006, Jim vowed not to take any PAC money to fund his campaign. It was a dominant theme. He said it all right here: I have made an unwavering commitment in this campaign to neither solicit donations—nor accept unsolicited