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Osborn/Sasse: Why Endorsements are Worthless . . . Mostly

Originally published April 12, 2014, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 6 Comments

Osborn/Sasse: Why Endorsements are Worthless . . . Mostly

I got a call a week or so ago from a former neighbor who was excited about Ben Sasse’s candidacy for the Nebraska U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mike Johanns.  After explaining why she’s so enthused by what she’s seen during Sasse’s campaign appearances, she urged me to consider voting for Sasse in the […]

Filed Under: Activism, Congress, Elections, Featured, Nebraska, Republican Party, Ruling Class, Senators, Taking Action, Tea Party, US Senate Tagged With: activism, ben sasse, coopting tea party, establishment republicans, freedomworks, gin, grassroots, Grassroots in Nebraska, nebraska republican party, negop, negrassroots, party politics, patrick bonnett, political endorsements, ruling class, shane osborn, Tea Party

Nebraska’s Ruling Class and the Perils of (Assisted) Political Suicide

Originally published September 11, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated April 28, 2012. 5 Comments

Nebraska’s Ruling Class and the Perils of (Assisted) Political Suicide

Updated Editor’s Note: This is the fourth article in a series about Nebraska politics, particularly as pertains to the Nebraska Republican Party and closely connected groups and their relationship to the “tea party movement”. Prior articles are linked here: 1, 2, 3. Articles following this will be added here: 5. “Governor Heineman Really Like Purple […]

Filed Under: Elections, Featured, Governor, Nebraska, Policies, Tea Party, Unicameral Tagged With: 2010 election results, 2011 republican nebraska agenda, adam hornung, afp-ne, america's ruling class and the perils of revolution, american spectator, angelo m. codevilla, assisted political suicide, chris beutler, cir reform, city of lincoln election 2011, collective bargaining, dave heineman, dcrp, deserving of darts, electoral votes nebraska, elephant in the living room, gin deserving of darts, jeff fortenberry, jon bruning, ken svoboda, lcgop, mike johanns, ne federal delegation, ne teaparty movement, nebraka populism, nebraska budget, nebraska economy, nebraska elections, nebraska governor, nebraska political history, nebraska politics, nebraska primary, nebraska progressivism, nebraska republican party, nebraska republican platform, nebraska republican super-majority, nebraska state legislature, nebraska taxation, nebraska tea party, nebraska teaparty, nebraska's ruling class, negop, negop constitution, negop platform, one party state, party politics, patrick bonnett, political cartels, political insiders, political suicide, populist movement, progressivism, republican legislative priorities, ruling class, tammy buffington, taxes in nebraska, tea parties in nebraska, teaparties ne, Unicameral, william jennings bryan

More Readers, More Questions About LCGOP, AFP Email

Originally published September 5, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated April 12, 2014. 3 Comments

More Readers, More Questions About LCGOP, AFP Email

A simple publication of an email which had been distributed publicly, a few questions about it, a rather swift expression of displeasure by a paid GOP employee, and our response to it has been generating a lot of interest by way of hits on our site, as we’ve previously reported. Also, we’ve now received a […]

Filed Under: Activism, Featured, Tea Party Tagged With: afp nebraska, afp-ne, america's ruling class and the perils of revolution, americans for prosperity-nebraska, co-opting tea party freshmen in congress, gop leadership freshmen congress, grassroots tea party, grassroots teaparty, lcgop email, legality verus morality, nebraska taxpayers for freedom, nebraska tea party groups, nebraska teaparty groups, november 2010 election, patrick bonnett, republican party front groups, ruling class, taxing the rich, tea party congressmen, tea party conservatives, teaparty congressmen, teaparty conservatives, trent lott, warren buffett

GiN Tea Party Questions: GOP Employee Seems to Protest Too Much

Originally published September 3, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated October 13, 2012. 13 Comments

GiN Tea Party Questions: GOP Employee Seems to Protest Too Much

  Thursday’s post, “Tea Party” People: See Anything Wrong With This Email?, has attracted a LOT of traffic, but only one comment so far.  In our opinion, however, that comment and our response to it merit more attention from our readers than it’s likely to get if it’s just appended to the original article.  For […]

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