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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Wed Jun 25, 2014, 12:14 PM Jun 2014

Warren Buffett backs Democrat for Nebraska governor with $100K

The Oracle of Omaha has spoken, and Warren Buffett wants Chuck Hassebrook to be the next governor of Nebraska.

Buffett donated $100,000 to Hassebrook’s campaign, in what the Associated Press says may be the billionaire investor’s largest campaign donation to one candidate. Buffett’s donation became public Tuesday through Hassebrook’s filing with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission.

Hassebrook, a former regent for the University of Nebraska, faces Republican Pete Ricketts in November. Ricketts is the son of Joe Ricketts, founder of T.D. Ameritrade, and whose family owns the Chicago Cubs. Gov. Dave Heineman, a Republican, cannot run again because of term limits.

Buffett primarily gives to Democratic candidates, according to campaign finance records kept by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. He’s donated to President Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tom Daschle and Bob Kerrey along with Republicans such as John McCain and former congressmen Chris Shays and Tom Osborne. (Osborne, of course, is the former coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers.)

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/06/24/warren-buffett-nebraska-governor-hassebrook/

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Warren Buffett backs Democrat for Nebraska governor with $100K (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2014 OP

Chuck Hassebrook 's Repub opponent it a nut. Dawson Leery Jun 2014 #1

Can somene do something to stop Sasse from winning senate? He's from the Franklin shit. TheNutcracker Jun 2014 #2

Dawson Leery

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1. Chuck Hassebrook 's Repub opponent it a nut.

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Wed Jun 25, 2014, 12:19 PM

Jun 2014

TheNutcracker

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2. Can somene do something to stop Sasse from winning senate? He's from the Franklin shit.

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Wed Jun 25, 2014, 12:32 PM

Jun 2014

He was tutor head of pages. If he knew about the sex abuse of minors in NE, then he is criminal and should not be a senator. If he did not know, then he's too stupid to be a senator. I...think he knew of course. And now he's rewarded like so many other pedophile protectors.

Here is a Discussionist thread on Sasse:
http://www.discussionist.com/101519832

It is Sasse's job as one of four proctors and a tutor for the U.S. House of Representative Page Program from 1996 to 1998 that has raised eyebrows in both Nebraska and Washington, DC. The House Page program, at the time of Sasse's employment, was experiencing one of its many scandals, in which members of Congress were accused of pressuring underage male House pages for sex. Sasse's time as a page proctor includes the time frame when Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) and Representative Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) were accused of molesting underage male House pages. Foley resigned his House seat in 2006 after sexually explicit instant messages he sent to current and former House pages were revealed to the media. Sasse's principal responsibility as proctor and tutor was the welfare of the pages, a job for which he failed miserably as seen by the number of pages who came forward with stories of molestation and sexual harassment from Foley and Kolbe.

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