re: #70 Big Beautiful Door

Here at home, the Omaha World-Herald seems to be leaning toward Jane Raybould over Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Cypher):

Sen. Deb Fischer can’t hide from her record of being completely entrenched in the swamp of Washington. She’s spent the last six years rubbing elbows with corporate lobbyists who’ve contributed $1.5 million to campaign for Senate, following her party bosses who she votes with 98 percent of the time — even when it hurts Nebraskans. All the while, Fischer has enriched herself while in office, watching her net worth grow from $300,000 in 2013 to over $4 million in 2017, and Fischer refuses to tell Nebraskans how she’s gotten so rich while in office.

Today, the Omaha World-Herald highlighted Fischer’s record of being a certified Washington insider, writing:

“Taking an outsider’s tack is popular when an incumbent’s party faces political headwinds. The approach is complicated for Fischer, whose record in the Legislature and Senate shows legislating as a strength, including negotiating and twisting arms behind closed doors. She’s a whip on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s team and one of his trusted confidants. Earlier this year, Fischer’s office confirmed her intention to run for vice chair of the Senate GOP caucus. That race will pit her against Ernst, if Fischer wins re-election against Raybould.”

D.C. Deb Fischer can’t run from her record or distance herself from her party because the voters know the truth: Fischer has spent the last six years aligning herself with power brokers in Washington and allowing them to guide her votes on the Senate floor.

“Senator Fischer has voted along party lines to give massive, permanent tax breaks to the corporations who bankroll her campaign while hiking taxes on the middle class. She voted with her party to cut Medicare by $500 billion. And, she voted with her party to spike health insurance costs for Nebraskans. There is nothing independent about my opponent,” said U.S. candidate Jane Raybould. “Fischer’s record shows she votes like a DC insider, and when it walks and smells like a pig — it probably is.”

janeraybould.com

In the meantime, on my side of the state, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald has a both-siderist political cartoon on the record number of women running for office.

starherald.com